Inclusive Housing in an Ageing Society: Innovative Approaches

INCLUSIVE HOUSING IN AN AGEING SOCIETY......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
List of tables and figures......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Notes on contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 10
Who is an older person?......Page 12
Demographic change......Page 14
The changing nature of households......Page 16
So where are older people housed?......Page 18
The impact of diversity......Page 20
Living arrangements across the life cycle......Page 21
What do we mean by independent living?......Page 26
Moving forward......Page 27
Part One: Policy and technology debates......Page 36
Introduction......Page 38
Medical and architectural disability......Page 39
Macro- versus micro-approaches to design: the genesis of ‘special needs’......Page 41
Sheltered housing: a micro-approach to third age housing......Page 43
From ‘special needs’ to ‘lifestyle choices’......Page 46
Macro equals ‘mainstream’......Page 47
Macro equals ‘retirement community’......Page 50
Macro equals ‘all-age communities’......Page 55
Lifestyle choices: the power to choose......Page 58
Introduction......Page 64
Housing today: current guidelines and standards......Page 66
The main players......Page 67
Supporting Lifetimes Homes initiatives......Page 69
The need for standards......Page 70
Planning ahead......Page 75
A home for life......Page 79
Integration and flexibility without blandness......Page 80
Introduction......Page 86
Housing quality and deregulation......Page 87
The trend towards reregulation and the disability movement......Page 90
Attitudes of the private house-building industry towards reregulation and accessibility......Page 92
Accessible new housing: a review of the responses to extend Part M/T......Page 94
The dilemma......Page 102
Accessible housing: rethinking housing quality......Page 103
Conclusions......Page 105
Introduction......Page 110
The origins of smart homes......Page 112
What should a smart home do?......Page 116
Recent initiatives......Page 118
User acceptance and ethical issues......Page 126
Benefits of smart homes......Page 128
Technology in the future......Page 134
Dementia and negative attitudes......Page 135
Dementia as a disability......Page 136
Design for people with dementia......Page 137
Technology for people with dementia......Page 139
Characteristics of technology......Page 140
The availability of technology......Page 142
The integration gap......Page 144
Ethical practice......Page 145
Conclusions......Page 148
Part Two: New lives for old?......Page 154
Introduction......Page 156
High-rise housing......Page 157
Sheltered housing......Page 162
Care housing for people with dementia......Page 166
Discussion: segregation, integration, and the organisation of housing for groups of older people......Page 171
Introduction......Page 178
The need for a familiar neighbourhood......Page 179
The development of CoHousing Communities......Page 180
Infrastructure of the Dutch CoHousing Communities movement......Page 181
How groups get started in the Netherlands......Page 182
CoHousing and design......Page 183
The value of a CoHousing Community......Page 185
Challenges in the British context......Page 187
A case study – the pilot CoHousing project......Page 190
Conclusion – innovation in Britain?......Page 195
Introduction......Page 198
What is a retirement community?......Page 199
British experience......Page 201
Benefits of retirement community living......Page 202
Critique of retirement communities......Page 204
Researching health, identity and well-being in retirement communities......Page 205
Conclusion......Page 215
Introduction......Page 224
The built environment, daily activity, choice and decision making......Page 226
Acceptance and resistance to ‘special’ housing......Page 231
Lifetime Homes – a new idea?......Page 237
Conclusion......Page 238
Introduction......Page 244
The material environment......Page 246
Technological futures......Page 252
The social environment......Page 254
Resources......Page 259
Opening up choices......Page 262
Index......Page 270