Health shocks and housing downsizing: How persistent is ‘ageing in place’?

How Important Are Uncertainty Shocks in the Housing Market?

Ageing in place: a French-British comparison of adaptations to home and housing environments

Background Increasing life expectancy, coupled with the impact that the retirement of the baby boom cohorts will have on society, means that policies to reduce the risk of dependency in later life have become a priority in France and Britain, as elsewhere in Europe. As a consequence, the organisation, funding and delivery of personal and social care provisions are now key issues. However, exist...

Ageing in communal place: Ethnographic studies of social interaction in senior housing communities

In this paper we adopt the position that design of social media for the elderly and virtual senior communities may be informed by studying real senior communities. Since current research efforts target the role of social media and virtual communities for supporting seniors ageing in place, i.e. in their homes, housing communities seem a natural place to begin this enquiry. We conducted observat...

What and How Is the Right to Children's Health in Iranian Society

Background and aim: The present study seeks to study the areas that define the right of the child to health in Iran and the expression of what and how this right. Method: this regard, with qualitative approach and thematic research method, content analysis and content analysis interviewed experts and identified four key determinants of childrenchr('39')s right to health in Iran. then four area...

Is Housing a Health Insult?

In seeking to understand the relationship between housing and health, research attention is often focussed on separate components of people's whole housing 'bundles'. We propose in this paper that such conceptual and methodological abstraction of elements of the housing and health relationship limits our ability to understand the scale of the accumulated effect of housing on health and thereby ...