on Feb 10th, 2006Aging at Home (Mostly for the Wealthy)
If everyone had a choice about whether to enter a nursing home or stay at home as they got older, hands down I’m sure most people would pick: stay at home. The problem, in most cases, however, is that the cost of hiring in-home help and caregivers is expensive. You have to have the bucks to avoid selling off your home just to afford the nursing home in the first place.
Beacon Hill is an affluent neighborhood in Boston, so it’s no surprise the local residents there have devised a plan to stay nice and cozy in their own homes. Whether it’s a model for how other towns and cities might provide such services is debatable. But hey, it’s always good to know it’s possible in a world of the haves and the have nots.
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All these services were organized for Mr. Sears by Beacon Hill Village, an innovative nonprofit organization created by and for local residents determined to grow old in familiar surroundings, and to make that possible for others. Community-based models for aging in place designed by the people who use them are the wave of the future, experts say, an alternative to nursing homes and assisted living centers run by large service providers.
Aging at Home: For a Lucky Few, a Wish Come True
By JANE GROSS
New York Times, February 9, 2006
Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment
by Ellen D. Taira
Aging in Place gives you a complete examination of current trends in adaptive home designs for older adults. As an occupational therapist, designer, architect, planner, social worker, community organizer, or gerontologist, you will explore innovative home designs and studies for creating environments that offer optimal living for aging adults. Complete with diagrams, floor plans, and tables, Aging in Place helps you to improve the quality of life for the elderly by offering them these state of the art designs that provide independence and dignity.
Aging at Home: Practical Approaches to Community Care
by T. Cluning et al
Most older people prefer to live independently, to stay in their own homes, but to do that the often need community support, even if they remain relatively healthy into very old age. In fact it must be a goal for any community to set up cost-effective systems to assist ageing people to continue living in their own homes and to put in place affordable, efficient and compassionate care.
Ageing at Home is written for professionals and other interested people who care for the frail elderly who choose to remain at home. The book is easy to read and provides practical ideas for helping not only the ageing person but also those who are caring for that person. The wide range of authors who have contributed chapters include geriatricians, community-based professionals and academics. Their writing has grown out of their practical experience. They have provided prompt sheets, assessment tools and tables that deal with diverse topics.
If your job takes you into people’s homes to offer them assistance or you are a professional or family carer, then this book is for you.
[...] In a recent post, we mentioned Beacon Hill Village, a support group for wealth residents of Beacon Hill in Boston. They have a website, so you can find out more about their services by visiting them online. Money can’t buy life, but it can keep you in your home. [...]
[...] In a recent post, we mentioned Beacon Hill Village, a support group for wealthy residents of Beacon Hill in Boston. They have a website, so you can find out more about their services by visiting them online. Money can’t buy life, but it can keep you in your home. Here’s the pitch: [...]