Older Women and Housing

Housing Preferences of Older Consumers

Housing and health care for older people.

There is an enormous impact of home conditions both on the health of an older person living with a long-term illness, and their ability to remain independent in the face of disability. Geriatricians are often called upon to give advice to older people with a new illness about where to live. It is important therefore that they should understand the relationship between housing and health, and ho...

Housing for Women with AIDS

Thel'llsa Cameron is cuffently visiting assistant professor at Cornell University, Department ofCity and Regional Planning. She received her Master of Uroan Planning from the University of Michigan and her Doctorate of Design from Harvard University in 1991. She also has ten years of experience as a planner in the private and public sector. Her researr:h Interests are housing for special needs ...

Exploring the Housing Needs of Older People in Standard and Sheltered Social Housing

Objective: Our home can have a major impact on our physical and mental health; this is particularly true for older people who may spend more time at home. Older people in social (i.e., public) housing are particularly vulnerable. Housing options for older people in social housing include standard design dwellings or specially designed "sheltered housing." The most suitable housing model should ...

No place like home: older adults and their housing.

OBJECTIVES The home is both older Americans' largest asset and their largest consumption good. This article employs new data on the consumption and assets of older Americans to investigate what role the home plays in the economic lives of older adults. METHODS We used 20 years of data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine the asset and consumption trends of four cohorts of older Ame...