A conceptual model for aging better together intentionally

Glass, Anne P.; Plaats, Rebecca S. Vander

doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2013.10.001

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“…In support of this, research which has been conducted within retirement villages, and similar housing arrangements such as elder co-housing and assisted living, has found benefits to wellbeing including: increased social life and activities; reduction in feelings of loneliness; more manageable and suitable dwellings; peer support, reassurance from care and security; a sense of autonomy; positivity about living in an age-segregated community; opportunities for selfdiscovery, self-expression, self-development and rejuvenation; and overall higher quality of life than community dwellers (Biggs, Bernard, Kingston & Nettleton, 2000;Buys, 2001;Gardner et al, 2005;Grant, 2007;Glass & Vander Plaats, 2013;Sandhu, Kemp, Ball, Burgess & Perkins, 2013).…”

Section: Retirement Communities Supported Accommodation and Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wellbeing in retirement villages: Eudaimonic challenges and opportunities

Chandler¹,

Robinson²

2014

Journal of Aging Studies

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A retirement village consists of a collection of privately owned or leased flats or maisonettes for elderly adults that are supported by a central hub that provides catering, medical care and social activities. There have been studies of the psychological experience and impacts of such environments, however, there is lack of research that links the retirement village experience to overarching theories of eudaimonic wellbeing, and that uses qualitative methods to find out Wellbeing in retirement villages: Eudaimonic challenges and opportunitiesThe landscape of supported accommodation for the elderly in the UK has changed radically over the past two decades. One of the forms of residence that has increased in prevalence over this time is the 'retirement village' model (Grant, 2007). In a retirement village, elderly residents either own or rent a self-contained apartment or maisonette within a larger community that contains facilities such as dining, leisure and care services. A monthly or annual fee is paid to the community provider for access to these services (Robinson, 2012).In 2009, the BBC published a report that suggested that 25,000 older adults lived in a retirement village on that date 1 , and that number is likely to have increased markedly since then, as villages continue to be built all over the country. The lower age limit for entry into a retirement village is typically set at 55 or 60, but the average age is around 80 (Evans, 2009).Retirement villages are a relatively new social milieu that are likely to be different in their effects on wellbeing and identity, compared with more traditional forms of elderly care environment, due to the greater emphasis on autonomy and on an absence of reference to being a 'care' home. The current study aims to explore how living in a retirement village within the UK is personally experienced by residents as impacting positively and negatively on eudaimonic wellbeing, using Ryff's taxonomic model of wellbeing as an orientating framework. Eudaimonic wellbeingWellbeing is a complex construct that has been operationalized in different ways by psychologists and sociologists. Broadly, these different definitions can be categorized as and satisfaction, and in psychology this has been operationalized in the construct of 'subjective wellbeing' (SWB) (Bauer & Park, 2010). SWB contains the emotional dimensions of happiness, the balance between positive/negative affect, and the cognitive dimension of life-satisfaction (Daatland, 2005). In contrast, eudaimonic wellbeing originates in Aristotelian philosophy and is concerned with optimal experience and functioning in a broader sense than the hedonic type, including positive relationships, a sense of purpose, meaning, and a feeling of growth, as well as the hedonic cognitive-affective appraisals of happiness and satisfaction. In psychology, the eudaimonic conceptualization has been operationalized in psychological wellbeing (PWB), by Ryff (1989). Hahn and Oishi (2006) found that older adults who were asked to recall the "...

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Section: Retirement Communities Supported Accommodation and Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wellbeing in retirement villages: Eudaimonic challenges and opportunities

Chandler¹,

Robinson²

2014

Journal of Aging Studies

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“…Yet older people do not make moving and housing decisions purely to satisfy basic needs, but also to find new living environments that offer a chance for them to maintain their lifestyle and to have a meaningful life in old age (Oswald & Wahl, 2005). The search for a better life and happiness (Clapham, 2010), as well as better aging (Glass & Vander Plaats, 2013), may thus be an important motive for moving in later life. Therefore, in this study we begin from the idea that to understand the motives for later-life moves, it is important to look at the subjective meaning of moving-that is, individual lifestyles, preferences, wishes, and goals in life (Clapham, 2005(Clapham, , 2010.…”

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The Meaning of a “Sense of Community” in a Finnish Senior Co-Housing Community

Jolanki

Vilkko

2015

Journal of Housing For the Elderly

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In the foreseeable future, alternative housing options will be needed to meet the needs of and answer to the wishes of older people. Cohousing schemes are developed to fulfill the need for a housing type that provides mutual support and social contacts while alleviating the isolation and loneliness often experienced in ordinary neighborhoods. This study on a senior co-housing community in Finland asked what a "sense of community" meant to the residents and how a sense of community becomes visible in daily life. For these residents, a sense of community meant not only living with like-minded people but also communal activities, doing things together, learning from each other, and having reciprocal support, all of which created a sense of togetherness, belonging, and trust. The findings of this study showed that moving in later life can offer a viable option of having a living environment that one likes, which calls for a broader interpretation of housing policy guided by "aging in place" thinking.

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“…The personal characteristics of cohousing residents are related to choosing cohousing and proactively predispose them to social interaction. Mutual support and security are identified as a driving reason to move into cohousing (Glass, 2009;Glass & Vander Plaats, 2013). However, the results of previous empirical studies have been.…”

Section: 한국주거학회논문집mentioning

confidence: 92%

Participation in Common Activities and Satisfaction with Common Space - In a Tentative Framework of Housing Adjustment for Swedish Cohousing Residents -

Choi¹,

Jaesoon²,

Suh³

2014

Journal of the Korean housing association

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The purpose of this study was to find the role of participation in common activities and satisfaction with common space in a tentative housing adjustment framework for Swedish cohousing residents, applying the housing adjustment behavior model of Winter (1978, 1996). The data used for this research were a subset of data Choi and Paulsson (2011) surveyed from 12 Swedish cohousing units. Number of 216 cases whose age was 40 and over were selected and analyzed with Pearson correlations and hierarchical linear regressions by SPSS. The regression analyses included four main concepts as endogenous variables, which were participation in common activities, satisfaction with common space, overall life satisfaction, and intention to move out. The results showed that participation in common activities raised satisfaction with common space and overall life satisfaction but reduced intention to move out. Meanwhile, satisfaction with common space diminished intention to move out but did not impact overall life satisfaction. When overall life satisfaction was added to the final regression model, the direct impacts of security reasons, participation in common activities, and satisfaction with common space on intention to move out disappeared. It may be concluded that participation in common activities and satisfaction with common space acted as intervening variables in the tentative cohousing adjustment framework. Even though this study leaves further research on specifying the framework, it may be noteworthy as a first attempt that explains the flow of main concepts. This study may broaden the possibility of empirical studies to develop an analytical path model of housing adjustment for cohousing residents.

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A conceptual model for aging better together intentionally

Cited by 57 publications

References 47 publications

Wellbeing in retirement villages: Eudaimonic challenges and opportunities

Wellbeing in retirement villages: Eudaimonic challenges and opportunities

The Meaning of a “Sense of Community” in a Finnish Senior Co-Housing Community

Participation in Common Activities and Satisfaction with Common Space - In a Tentative Framework of Housing Adjustment for Swedish Cohousing Residents -

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