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.     

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。     

我国农村宅基地管理调查分析 —基于陕西、浙江和河南等地的农户问卷调查

基于我国农村宅基地管理现状的调查分析,探寻农村宅基地审批及宅基地使用权管理存在的问题,提出完善宅基地审查审批程序和宅基地用地的规划管理、加强村级基层组织民主建设,规范乡(镇)、县一级土地管理部门在宅基地管理中的职责的对策建议,实现土地节约利用和村民住宅合理建设目标.     

Promoting choice and control in residential services for people with learning disabilities

This paper discusses the gap between policy goals and practice in residential services for people with learning disabilities. Drawing on a nine month ethnographic study of three residential services, it outlines a range of obstacles to the promotion of choice and control that were routinely observed in the culture and working practices of the services. Issues discussed include conflicting service values and agendas, inspection regimes, an attention to the bigger decisions in a person's life when empowerment could more quickly and effectively be promoted at the level of everyday practice, problems of communication and interpretation and the pervasiveness of teaching. We offer a range of suggestions as to how these obstacles might be tackled.     

生态人居环境建设刍议

本文从理论与实际的结合上 ,思考和回答了什么是生态人居环境 ,建设生态人居环境的必要性和重要性以及怎样建设生态人居环境等三个问题。这对我国生态人居环境建设有重要的意义