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Shared Housing for the Elderly (Hardcover, New)
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Shared Housing for the Elderly (Hardcover, New)
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This book is the first collection of original essays on the topic
of elderly shared housing. The approach is multidisciplinary and
reflects a rare combination of applied and academic analyses. The
focus is on agency-assisted shared housing, a form of shared
housing in which a homesharing agency matches a homeprovider,
usually an elderly person with room to spare in his or her home and
often with needs for assistance, with a homeseeker, usually a
younger adult who seeks an inexpensive living arrangement. With the
increasing scarcity of moderate- and low-income housing in many
regions of the nation and the increasing costs of formal
community-based services for the elderly, such homesharing options
are becoming increasingly attractive for old and young alike. The
first section of the book includes four introductory essays. The
goals of this section are to provide a broad descriptive analysis
of the history, growth, and current issues facing the shared
housing movement, to consider both the urban and rural environments
as contexts for shared housing programs, and to offer an overview
of shared housing research. The second section contains three
chapters which offer regionally specific perspectives on the
development of shared housing programs. These include the states of
Michigan, California, and the Canadian province of Ontario. Each
chapter decribes the issues in service delivery system development
within their particular geographic boundaries. The final section of
the book contains six case studies of homesharing programs. They
are located in Burlington, Vermont, Madison and Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, Wichita, Kansas, and San Jose and Orange County,
California. Most emphasize the organizational characteristics and
dynamics of the programs, and some present qualitative and
quantitative data on homesharing matches. A theme running through
the analyses is the fact that community level variables influence
the organizational form of the homesharing agency as well as the
kinds of clients who are likely candidates for homesharing in
particular communities.
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