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Community Supports for the Aged
Author(s) -
Lawton M. Powell
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1981.tb00831.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , matching (statistics) , scale (ratio) , older people , point (geometry) , aging in place , business , gerontology , psychology , geography , computer science , medicine , geometry , cartography , mathematics , pathology , artificial intelligence
This paper examines the concept of community alternatives to institutions for older people from the theoretical vantage point of the need to optimize the mix of challenge and support in matching the residential environment to individual need. Research is reviewed on the characteristics of people inhabiting different types of residential environments and on the impacts such environments have on older people. A variety of residential types (planned independent housing, congregate housing, mobile homes, hotels, small‐scale congregate residences, and more institutional varieties) are discussed as means for increasing the degree of choice among residences afforded the older person.