Moving and Children's Social Connections: Neighborhood Context and the Consequences of Moving for Low-Income Families

Using data from an experimental housing relocation program, this research compares social connections of children in families that move with those of similar children who do not move. Qualitative interview data are used to examine what factors influence the formation of social connections after moving. Results show the impact of moving on children's social connections is influenced by neighborhood context, financial resources, and children's age at the time of the move. Studies of moving during childhood need to pay closer attention to the factors that influence where, when, and why families move.     

Residential Adjustment of Elders: Learning from Experiences With Parents and Peers

The ways elders learn from the experiences of their parents and peers in coping with declining health can affect residential adjustments they make themselves to minimize their exposure to long-term-care risks. Experiences of parents and peers can affect predisposition toward residential options, and parental and peer experiences sometimes can have major influences in elder residential choices. Drawing on qualitative interviews with community-residing elders, we illustrate how elders critically assess how their own parents and peers responded to declining health. We then show how these assessments influence the residential thinking and adjustments of these elders in anticipation of their own declining self-care capacity.     

A Typology of Source of Information About the Continuing Care Retirement Community and Older Adults’ Living Arrangement

Abstract

A continuing care retirement community (CCRC) represents a residential alternative for older adults. It offers a variety of social and health care services to meet older adults’ needs and preferences. Using the theory of innovation as a theoretical basis, the overall goal of the study was to use the source of information about the CCRC as a potential predictor of the decision to move. In total, 76 older adults responded to a question about the source of information on the CCRC. Of these, 40 were CCRC residents and 36 were community dwellers, who expressed an interest in the CCRC but decided to remain in their community. Based on their responses, respondents were classified into one of five clusters (e.g., spouse, friends, children, nonhuman sources, mixed human and nonhuman sources). Those classified into the spouse or adult children as sources of information were more likely to live in a CCRC. Results show that information about the CCRC should be conveyed to additional members in the family, such as adult children, as they often take a major role in the decision to relocated. The findings have implications for administrators as they clearly point to potential sources of greater influence on older adults’ decision to relocate.     

In Search of a Future for Large-Scale Care Homes in Flanders

Housing for older people in Flanders evolves toward small-scale facilities and better quality of life. Ageing population strains the means to achieve this to the limit. The authors investigate whether and how Flemish large-scale facilities can adapt to meet contemporary and future requirements of housing for older people. By analyzing current tendencies, they depict what this housing should look like, both now and in the future. They then investigate how an existing large-scale care home could fit this picture by using design as a mode of knowledge production. They propose to redesign the site such that its actual evolution would be thoroughly redirected. Beyond the facility at issue, the study shows how Flemish large-scale facilities could develop to keep playing a role in the future. They should timely adapt their size with qualities of small-scale housing schemes, and integrate in the neighborhood.     

Meaning as outcome: Understanding the complexity of decision-making around residential placement in aged care

Abstract

Changes in aged care and health policy have introduced an increasingly complex assessment, resource option, and economic and regulatory context for decision-making regarding relocation to residential care. This paper reports on a study exploring residential placement from the perspective of spouses who place a long-term partner in an aged care facility. It highlights the importance of understanding the meaning of such decision-making for the spouse who remains at home and explores the ways in which the placement is constructed as either a continuation of, or a refusal to, care for a long-term partner. The paper draws out the implications for social work practice and identifies the challenge to merge knowledge of resource packages, care options and financial arrangements with a concern with the processes of decision-making and the emotional and symbolic aspects of such decisions.     

Mom and Pop Versus the Big Boys: Adult Family Homes as Providers of Medicaid-Funded Residential Care

This paper compares assisted living apartments (ALs), adult residential care facilities (ARCs), and small adult family homes (AFHs) for Medicaid residents in Washington State, with particular emphasis on the settings, staffing, services, and policies of AFHs. We targeted for enrollment all residents entering an AFH, ARC, or AL setting on Medicaid/state funding in a three-county area of Washington State. We obtained information on 199 settings, interviewing administrative and direct care providers. AFHs are smaller than ARCs and ALs and less likely to be part of a chain, with no significant difference in staffing ratios of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses. Sixty-four percent of AFH residents were receiving public funds compared to 32% of AL residents. AFHs report admitting residents with more activities of daily living needs, health conditions, and behavior problems. They are less likely to have autonomy-related policies, and they provide more services and fewer activities. While attention should continue to be paid to staff supports, policy and practice should support the continued role of AFHs, which are of special interest because of their potential to provide more homelike, less costly care but with possible trade-offs compared to larger facilities.     

城市居住空间分异的动力机制研究——从城市空间资源使用谈起

从城市空间资源使用的角度,提出个体在居住空间选择中的“主动分异”和“被动分异”,是从微观角度对居住空间研究中的宏观视角进行的有益补充。居住空间的“主动分异”和“被动分异”不仅是与个人社会经济地位相关的空间选择结果,同时影响着居民对城市空间资源相对平等的使用,并进而影响社会群体差异的“再生产”和固化。     

现代住宅小区治理领域房地产利益集团的负面影响——成因、表现与应对策略

从房地产领域到现代住宅小区治理领域,延伸着房地产利益集团的力量,其中房地产开发商、物业公司和地方政府相关部门在住宅小区内具有相应的利益、义务或职责而成为其中治理的参与者。但它们伴随着房地产领域内形成的与其密切相关的矛盾引发因素而常带来各种负面影响,包括影响住宅小区治理法律的公正制定与有效实施,造成其与业主之间难以化解的矛盾,形成强弱冲突的利益博弈困境。应对和消解这些负面影响,需树立全局思维,既要在房地产领域寻求打破垄断性利益集团势力的政策和制度,预防起源于房地产领域的相关问题影响住宅小区治理;同时也要在住宅小区治理领域构建多元主体的合作机制,促进城市化进程中住宅小区的良性治理与和谐稳定。     

近代漳州侨乡民居建筑审美的基本维度

福建是我国箬名的侨乡,而闽南是侨乡最为集中的地区,漳州、泉州、厦门三地华侨人数众多,华侨对当地建筑的营造起着重要的作用,不仅在侨汇的资金上提供资助,同时还在建筑的样式与风格上产生重要的影响,住近现代百年发展的过程中,逐渐形成了独特的侨乡地域性建筑风格,在民居建筑的表现上尤为显著,漳州的侨乡民居是闽南侨乡民居建筑的重要组成部分,其主要的民居建筑都分布在较偏僻的乡村,有着自己的地域特质。     

英国居住区文化景观内涵

英国居住区文化景观建设的发展过程充分展示了英国居住区文化景观的特征.英国居住区文化景观建设是由主体使用者介入、建造、实施与反馈的过程,本质是通过附加使用者的劳动和智慧,从而促进居住区文化景观的形成和发展.这样的形成过程有利于保护传统文化资源,增强社会凝聚力.英国居住区文化景观的建设成果具有传统意义、现实意义和社会意义,对我国居住区景观建设提供了良好的借鉴作用.