A Model for Aging in Place in Apartment Communities

The purpose of this article is to introduce a theoretical model for an aging-in-place housing specialist for those living in congregate housing facilities. A “needs assessment” tool is outlined to help facilitate the successful implementation of a Health and Aging Residential Service Coordinator (HARSC), both from a research perspective and from implementation of training curriculum for this specialized population. A model that provides both on- and off-site services is hypothesized to be most effective.     

Factors that Influence Physical Activity among Residents in Assisted Living

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine factors that influence physical activity among residents in assisted living. This was a secondary data analysis using baseline data from a function-focused care intervention study including 171 residents from 4 assisted living facilities. Using structural equation modeling, we found that mood, satisfaction with staff and activities, and social support for exercise were directly associated with time spent in physical activity. Gender, cognition, depression, and comorbidities were indirectly associated with physical activity and accounted for 13% of the total variance in physical activity. Implications for future research and social work practice are presented.     

“Sense” and sensitivity: Informal apprenticeship among youth care workers in a residential treatment center for children

This article reports findings from a 13‐month ethnographic study of knowledge use and expertise among 78 workers in a U.S. residential treatment center for children. It investigates the question of how youth care workers developed expertise in an organization that did not require graduate professional education and provided little didactic training. It demonstrates how processes of informal apprenticeship allowed some workers to develop locally recognized expertise through working alongside more experienced peers. It analyzes the puzzling initial finding that workers simultaneously attributed expertise to innate “common sense” and reported that they developed this form of expertise through informal on‐the‐job apprenticeship. Taking a cultural perspective on learning, this article conceptualizes youth‐serving organizations as communities of practice in which informal apprenticeship contributes to the development of locally valued forms of expertise and addresses the question of why youth care workers appeared to differ in their ability to make use of opportunities for such learning. It explores implications of these findings for workforce development in youth residential treatment and for social work education in general, suggesting simple methods for maximizing opportunities for situated learning.     

Risk,resilience and identity construction in the life narratives of young people leaving residential care

The role of residential care for children has developed very differently internationally, but in all cultural contexts, there are questions about the extent to which it can help young people recover from high risk backgrounds. In the UK, residential care has come to be seen as the placement of last resort, yet new government guidance on permanence has suggested that residential care can provide security and a sense of belonging. Narrative analysis of interviews with 20 care leavers identified their different pathways from birth families through residential care to early adulthood. Some experienced a transformation from a negative sense of self as victims or ‘bad children’ to survivors, while others continued to struggle. Key to successful turning points were four interacting factors, all associated with resilience; connection, agency, activity and coherence. These narratives revealed the importance of nurturing relationships and a sense of ‘family’, and also the role of support after leaving residential care, when transitions workers helped them to move on but stay connected. The study highlighted how residential care leavers from adverse backgrounds attribute very different meanings to their experiences, which affects identity construction, resilience and the need for support.     

我国居民住宅区名称文本功能考察

居民住宅区名称类属于地名范畴,通过语言的音、形、义要素的互动传达了名称的信息、表情、美感和祈使四项功能。现有大部分小区名称方位定向的信息功能已被命名者弱化,祈使功能因其美感和表情功能的强化得以突显;同时,名称的英译也进一步彰显其祈使功能。     

Urbanization in China and the Coordinated Development Model—The case of Chengdu

China's urbanization faces two greatest difficulties of creating non-farm jobs to “landless farmers” and providing required amenities and social services to urbanites-to-be. In the earlier phase of development, TVE employment had provided important relief to the job pressure. Later, the “Small-city Strategy” that emphasized forming towns and small cities around where rural population resided successfully deterred rural population's entry into large cities. Today, China is implementing a Coordinated Development between the urban and rural sectors, aiming to reach a balanced development between the two sectors by making not only large cities more welcoming to rural migrants but also the small cities, towns, and areas where rural population now reside harder to leave. At the core of the coordination are three concentrations of rural residents, farmland, and firms, intended to help rural residents to settle in large cities, small cities and towns, as well as new residential areas in the countryside, to de-segment land to realize economies of scale, and to gather firms of a same industry in organized industrial areas to gain agglomeration economies and create non-farm jobs. This article examines the trajectory of China's urbanization, analyzes the working mechanism of the Coordinated Development model, and investigates Chengdu's practice of the Coordinated Development, which will help to provide insights into the new developments in China's urbanization.     

五个统筹背景下的风景区居民点调控问题研究

风景区的发展不仅带动了对资源和环境的保护,同时也给风景区内部和周边居民点带来了社会经济与生态环境的双重影响。居民点问题在当前每个风景区中都是确实存在和无法回避的。在＂五个统筹＂背景下,结合国内外的理论和实践,以苏州澄湖为例,探讨了风景区居民点调控问题,并提出了相关的对策建议。     

赫拉克利特“火”的现代解读

从赫拉克利特美学思想中“火”的观念来审视希腊文明中的人文精神,“火”的观念是主体理性思考的产物,它意味着人类生存发展回归到人的主体性和完整性上;从马克思“关学和历史的”角度看“火”是审美创造意识的体现,“火”反映了赫拉克利特对人的生存目标和生存状况的审美创造思考。     

创建城市社区文化拓展报业纵深领域--论创办社区周报的必要性和可行性

本文基于城市化进程中的社区文化建设,提出创办社区周报的设想。认为社区周报能满足社区居民对“本地化”信息和基层民主言论的市场化需求,并能适应近年来报业发展的趋势。文章以大学教职工住宅区为例,从资讯来源、采编人员、读者、发行等诸多方面,分析了创办社区周报的现实可行性,并强调了营运过程中的注意点。     

居住小区的整体设计

从现阶段居住建筑的主要形态居住小区开发中存在的问题出发，首次提出了居住小区的整体设计理念，旨在提升居住小区的人居环境。通过系统论原理，分析了整体设计的可行性与优势，指出了优化居住小区人居环境对设计师提出的知识要求，并且总结了居住小区整体设计的思路框架以及各阶段应当关注的重点问题。