An Intergenerational Approach to Perceived Housing

Müller, Helena; Oswald, Frank

doi:10.1080/02763893.2019.1680129

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“…There are significantly different demands for community housing, social activity, and services among different age groups [ 11 ]. Younger seniors have stronger demands for benches, accessibility, and fitness equipment in the community [ 45 ].…”

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“…There is a large body of literature on the AFC environment from the perspective of older adults in developed countries, which has explored the factors influencing the happiness of the aging population from the viewpoint of the physical and social environment [ 10 , 11 ]. There are also some studies exploring the influencing factors of active aging in low-income countries [ 12 ].…”

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Assessment of Environmental Demands of Age-Friendly Communities from Perspectives of Different Residential Groups: A Case of Wuhan, China

Yan

Wang

et al. 2022

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Age-friendly communities (AFCs) are an important measure for fostering active aging. The key to achieving an age-friendly living environment is to construct or renovate it according to the residents’ demands. To date, very few studies have attempted to delve into the AFCs’ environmental demand from different groups’ perspectives. Based on the theory of place attachment, the aim of this paper is to explore the demand diversity of different groups for the AFC environment. This study employs the nonparametric test and the Ordinal Priority Approach (OPA) to investigate the demands from the residents’ perspectives, and is enhanced by incorporating experts’ opinions. The empirical analysis shows that residents have a high level of demand for the physical environment (indoor and outdoor) and social environment (community services and social participation). At the same time, experts advocate the importance of using digital technologies to support people aged 45–65 who have higher requirements for a community environment than older adults. The findings also show that other backgrounds, such as gender, living arrangements, and year of the community establishment, lead to different demands. However, the impact of residents’ education level, occupation, income, and self-care ability on the environmental demands is low. Based on the research findings, the paper provides some practical suggestions for the future design and development of AFCs.

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Assessment of Environmental Demands of Age-Friendly Communities from Perspectives of Different Residential Groups: A Case of Wuhan, China

Yan

Wang

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“…The Meaning of Home Questionnaire (MOH) [32,33] includes 28 items to assess the subjective perceptions of older people about the meaning of their own home. It is divided into five factors: physical (items 1,3,6,7,12,13,25), behavioral (items 8,10,15,20,21,26), cognitive (items 2,9,16,17,22), emotional (items 4,14,18,23,27) and social (items 5,11,19,24,28). The questionnaire is scored on a Likert-type scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).…”

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“…The results of these studies indicate that people who have a high PH score develop effective links to their home environment and value home as support for their independent and autonomous life. Therefore, from the psychological perspective offered by PH, home is not only objective and behavioral aspects but also incorporates subjective, cognitive and emotional aspects [19].…”

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Aging Living at Home: Residential Satisfaction among Active Older Adults Based on the Perceived Home Model

Amián

Alarcón

Fernández-Portero

et al. 2021

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Background: Housing plays an important role in the aging process and health. The house and its nearby environment host most of the daily activities of older adults. Residential satisfaction (RS) has been relegated to physical issues such as accessibility. However, RS is also constituted by older adults’ perceptions about housing. This study analyzes the perceived home that develops RS in older adults. Methods: A random sample of 714 participants aged 50 to 84 (mean = 65; SD = 0.98) were used. Participants lived in ordinary housing in southern Spain. Scales measure perceptions of RS, meaning, functionality and belief of control over the home. Results: Analyses were performed using structural equation models to evaluate the dependence relationships between the different perceptions evaluated. We observe a direct influence of internal control on usability (β = 0.84) and perceived meanings (β = 0.49). However, external control shows a negative influence on the meaning of home (β = −0.14). Perceived usability (β = 0.68) and meaning (β = 0.32) positively influence RS. Conclusion: Perceptions of meaning, functionality and RS itself depend on internal housing-related control beliefs. Active older adults with higher internal control perceived their home fit better to the need of everyday life and improve RS.

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“…That research suggested that younger-old adults experiencing home as more meaningful, as well as feeling in control over their housing situation, reported fewer somatic or psychological symptoms (Haak et al, 2015), less depressive mood, and better wellbeing (Kylén et al, 2017). Even though research has suggested that there are no differences between younger-old and very-old in regard to how the home environment is perceived (Müller and Oswald, 2020), research whether the associations between the perceived home and health and wellbeing remain over time for younger-old adults, is lacking. To build further understanding of how and if perceived aspects of the home environment play a role in health and wellbeing during ageing, it is important to discern patterns of associations already early in old age and determine if these associations change over time.…”

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Associations of Meaning of Home and Housing-Related Control Beliefs with Changes in Symptoms and Quality of Life: A Prospective Study Among Younger-Old Adults in Sweden

Eriksson,

Kylén,

Ekström

et al. 2023

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Feeling in control of one’s environment, and perceiving one’s home as meaningful, have been found to be associated with health and wellbeing among older adults. As longitudinal studies of younger-old adults are lacking, this study aimed to investigate whether this association exists over time among older adults around retirement age. This study used longitudinal data from a random cohort of older adults in southern Sweden collected over a period of around 6 years (~2010-2016). In total, 329 community dwelling older adults, ages 65-76 (190 women and 139 men) participated in the study. Meaningfulness of one’s home was assessed by the Meaning of Home questionnaire, feelings of control of one’s home environment by the Housing-Related Control Beliefs questionnaire, symptom severity by a symptom checklist, and quality of life by Short-Form 12. Analyses was performed by stepwise General Linear Regression models. Housing-Related Control Beliefs was not significantly associated with changes in quality of life. Meaning of Home was found to be significantly associated with changes in gastrointestinal (B= 0.039, p= 0.031) and metabolism (B= 0.084, p< 0.000) symptoms. However, there were inconsistencies among the subscales of the instrument as some were negatively associated, and others were positively associated, with the change. The overall findings therefore suggest that the perceived home environment does not have a significant role in preventing symptoms, or in maintaining or improving quality of life, among older adults around retirement age. This finding is of importance to further develop theoretical understandings of the environments’ role in healthy ageing.

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An Intergenerational Approach to Perceived Housing

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Assessment of Environmental Demands of Age-Friendly Communities from Perspectives of Different Residential Groups: A Case of Wuhan, China

Assessment of Environmental Demands of Age-Friendly Communities from Perspectives of Different Residential Groups: A Case of Wuhan, China

Aging Living at Home: Residential Satisfaction among Active Older Adults Based on the Perceived Home Model

Associations of Meaning of Home and Housing-Related Control Beliefs with Changes in Symptoms and Quality of Life: A Prospective Study Among Younger-Old Adults in Sweden

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