Decisions About the “If,” “When,” and “How” of Moving Home: Can a Relocation Service Help? A Welsh Case Study

This small-scale, Welsh qualitative study explores how a new “moving on” service empowered older people to move voluntarily from their home to an extra-care facility. Eighteen older people were interviewed about their experiences of the service, which offered in-person, bespoke information, advice, financial, practical, brokerage, and emotional support about moving. Findings indicate three service use patterns: continuous, partial, and discontinued. It was instrumental in empowering clients to exercise decisional, executional, delegated, and/or consumer autonomies. Recommendations for future developments of a prototype “moving on” service include a multipartner approach and caseworker case management training modeled on social work practice.     

城市工业产业空间布局优化中的企业搬迁问题研究

青岛市老城区工业企业搬迁中存在资金缺口大、职工安置成本高、片区搬迁开发缓慢、搬迁改造政策尚待完善、企业搬迁随意性较强等问题。为加快老城区企业搬迁,应从做好产业发展规划入手,加强组织协调工作,加快功能区基础设施建设,高起点招商引资,完善财税政策和监督考核机制。     

图书馆搬迁形势下馆员工作及再教育问题

以黑龙江科技学院图书馆的搬迁为例,提出面对学校搬迁,新设备、新技术的引进和图书馆环境的变化,以及当今世界信息时代的新形势,图书馆馆员的工作和再教育问题。并从思想政治素质、职业道德、心理素质和专业素质等方面提出了高校图书馆馆员再教育的建议。     

公众参与陕南移民搬迁问题研究

陕南移民搬迁是保障山区群众人身及财产安全的科学抉择,也是改善民生和全面建成小康社会的现实需要。然而从公众参与层面看,陕南移民搬迁存在着法律法规缺失、移民主体地位缺失、信息不对等、缺乏移民信息反馈等不容小觑的问题。要使如此大规模的移民工程顺利进行,必须自上而下提高公众参与意识,从而提高移民搬迁的效率与决策的科学民主性。     

Voices from the margins of recovery: relocated Cantabrians in Waikato

No two disasters are the same. Accordingly, sociocultural geographers are aptly positioned to include the place-based and temporal aspects of disasters in their analyses. By examining the experiences of 19 Cantabrian families who have relocated to the Waikato region, this paper offers stories from the margins of ‘traditional’ disaster research. Often researchers know a great deal about the population at the site of the disaster, but little about the people who move away. Further, by investigating relocation, the insider/outsider dichotomy is challenged, as participants in this research are simultaneously inside and outside the earthquake events and their ongoing impacts. ‘Ownership’ of the disaster narratives, including research, lays open ideas of who can speak for whom. What and who is inside and/or outside a disaster event also allows a finer distinction of how place attachment filters experience and ideas of recovery, which are not diminished under internal migration.     

CCRC Here We Come! Reasons for Moving to a Continuing Care Retirement Community

Abstract

To better understand why people move to CCRCs, we conducted qualitative interviews with 20 elders who were planning on moving into one such facility within six months of the interview. In this paper, we describe participants' reasons for moving and their perceptions of the trade-off or anticipated gains and losses inherent in the move. Push factors included desire to plan while still able to do so; optimal timing and being ready for a change; fear of burdening family; burden of home and yard maintenance; own or spouse's failing health; and environmental barriers. Pull factors included attachment to the community; joining friends and neighbors who were moving at the same time; proximity to family; amenities of the CCRC and the prospect of long-term care in the future. One of the unanticipated findings was that far from considering this as their last move, participants looked forward to anew and exciting phase of life.     

权利与权力的博弈——“暴力拆迁”之法经济学思考

暴力拆迁案件频繁发生,引起人们对当前拆迁制度的反思。以法经济学基本理论为依托,采用实证的分析方法,解析引发拆迁冲突的内在诱因,同时借用理性行动者模型剖析不少政府官员在拆迁过程中＂偏好＂使用暴力之原因,并在此基础上试图探寻祛除附在政府官员身上的＂暴力鬼魅＂之方法,以期实现和谐拆迁。     

城市房屋拆迁法律制度的理论分析

城市房屋拆迁是一个敏感而又普遍的社会问题,广为社会各界瞩目。本文介绍了我国现行的城市房屋拆迁法律制度,并简要分析拆迁制度的法律特征属性,然后着重剖析具有强制力的城市房屋拆迁的理论依据,即社会公共利益,这也是从法律上判断一项具体的拆迁行为是否合法的唯一标准。为规范拆迁,保证政府拆迁主管部门在拆迁活动中正确履行相关职责,应当借鉴有关国家在城市改建中的公共开发制度和广州市的城市房屋拆迁模式,以期建立一套更科学、公正、有效的房屋拆迁法律制度。     

Ready or Not: Transitioning from Institutional Care to Community Care

Federal legislation has moved toward the support and expansion of home- and community-based alternatives to nursing home placement. Despite the seemingly positive nature of these efforts, the question remains as to whether individuals, families, and communities are prepared for this shift in long-term care. Furthermore, there has been a lack of attention to the impact of nursing home transition programs on family caregivers, community resources, and the availability of appropriate housing alternatives. Although nursing home transition programs offer a promising alternative to institutional care, the authors suggest a closer examination of the policies and practicality of these transitions is needed.     

Home From Home? A Mixed-Methods Study of Relocation Within a Purpose-Built Retirement Community

Moving from a location where one has intimate knowledge of the physical and social aspects of space, with established daily routines, social networks, and attachment to place, can present challenges in later life. The literature supports the optimality of aging in place, and several studies point to the potentially detrimental effects of disruption, particularly in cases of involuntary relocation. Using both qualitative and quantitative data, this exploratory study aimed to examine the experiences and effects of relocation as part of a redevelopment of a community housing older people. Thirty-five interviews were completed with 17 participants across stages of the relocation process. Quantitative indicators of well-being were also compared between residents who had moved and those who had not over this period. No significant differences were found between movers and non-movers in the quantitative data. However, the qualitative data suggested that the relationship with the environment is more nuanced than the duality of optimal and detrimental. Individuals’ agency in relation to their environment was found to be mediated by such factors as lifestyle and daily routine, bereavement, sociospatial factors, and access to nature. The effects of relocation appear to be complex and mediated by a variety of individual and social factors.