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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Elders' Utopia -- Retirement Communities -- Plan and Focus of the Book -- Design Studio and Design Jury -- Applying Research to Design -- PART ONE: BACKGROUND PAPERS -- Community and the Elderly -- Introduction -- Utopian Ideals -- Kibbutz -- Cohousing -- Community Architecture -- Societal Changes -- Elderly Need for Community -- Communal Problems -- Aging Group Consciousness -- Alternative Housing -- A University Model -- Future Innovations -- Person, Place, and View -- Introduction -- The Morning Sunrise

Shelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations takes you for an inside look at what policies in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States have done to meet the housing and service needs of the elderly and the disabled and what policies have yet to accomplish. As you learn about a wide range of cost-effective and successful housing options, such as congregate housing, home equity conversions, and homesharing, you will learn about the challenges of providing responsive, high-quality housing and living arrangements to meet the needs of different populations. As this insightful book reveals

Discover the diverse range of housing options available to the elderly population with this excellent new book. This timely volume addresses the public policy and design and development issues that must necessarily face those concerned with housing our steadily growing elderly population. The chapters cover a broad spectrum of populations including elderly people in "aging ghettoes" in suburbia, continuing care retirement community residents, full-time recreational vehicle travelers, and the homeless elderly. The authoritative contributors go beyond descriptions of wide-ranging elderly housing

In this highly practical volume, the contributing authors explore some of the dimensions associated with aging in place. There are increasing numbers of older Americans who are faced with fundamental changes in their economic circumstances, health, and marital status which have an impact on their ability to age in place. Without the necessary supports many may have no other choice but to be prematurely or inappropriately placed in costly health care facilities or be forced to move into unfamiliar, less safe, less satisfactory housing environments. Aging in Place explores some of the dimensions

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Overview -- Chapter 2: The Socioeconomic Determinants of the Housing Decisions of Elderly Homeowners -- Descriptions and Determinants of the Housing Choices Available to Elderly Homeowners -- Data -- Empirical Results -- Discussion -- Future Work -- Chapter 3: Elderly Housing Assistance Programs: How They Affect the Own versus Rent Decisions -- I. Introduction -- ll. The Major Subsidy Programs -- III. Why the Elderly Are Different -- IV. Whether to Participate in Direct Assistance Programs -- V. Simulation Analysis -- VI. Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Selecting Senior Housing: Information Needs and Sources -- Current Literature on Housing Searches -- Methodology -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: State Units on Aging and Housing for the Elderly: Current Roles and Future Implications -- Introduction -- Study Description -- Results of the Survey of SUA Housing Efforts for the Elderly -- Accomplishments, Future Initiatives, Priorities -- Conclusions and Implications for the Future -- Chapter 6: Factors That Influence Pre-Retirees' Propensity to Move at Retirement -- Introduction -- Hypothesized Model -- Description and Definition of Model's Variables -- Procedures -- Results -- Satisfaction Level -- Implications -- Chapter 7: The Decision to Move to a Continuing Care Retirement Community -- Methods -- Procedure -- Results -- Reasons for Choosing a CCRC -- Decision-Making Regarding the Move to a CCRC -- Locus of Control and the Decision-Making Process -- Discussion -- Chapter 8: Home Builders' Attitudes and Knowledge of Aging: The Relationship to Design for Independent Living -- Review of Relevant Literature -- Methodology -- Findings -- Implications -- Chapter 9: A Mathematical Model of the Housing Decisions of Elderly Homeowners -- Introduction.

Through the use of mechanical appliances to simulate the "normal" sensory losses that often accompany advanced age, the research team repeatedly performed a number of tasks in a dwelling unit, a multi-purpose senior center, and a shopping center, in order to discover and evaluate the nature of environmental barriers faced by the elderly individual. The study revealed specific problems that are encountered when the visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile senses are impaired. Space organized by these senses functions both as a stimulus and in the orientation of the individual. The simulation model was shown to be valuable as both a research and a training tool.

A field investigation of the effect of driver's age on nighttime legibility of highway signs was performed. Subjects of two age groups (under 25 and over 61 years of age) participated. The results indicate that legibility distances for the older subjects were 65 to 77% of those for the younger subjects with equal high-luminance visual acuity. This finding implies that older drivers are likely to have less distance (and thus less time) in which to act on the information transmitted by highway signs. Consequently, it is argued that (I) legibility standards for highway signs should not be based exclusively on data obtained from young observers and (2) standard (high-luminance) acuity tests have questionable relevance to nighttime visual performance.