SERIE RESEARCH mEmoRnnon SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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Planning of services for the elderly has become a focal point of policy interest in many countries, mainly as a result of significant trends toward an ageing population. Services for the elderly are in general designed for persons who are less capable to live independently in a social, financial and medical sense. Types of services for the elderly may be quite diverse, for example, sheltered housing or other specialized housing facilities, medical and household services, customized transport services^ and so forth. Research on facilities for the elderly is varied, both theoretically/methodologically and empirically. An important question which has been left unanswered so far, concerns the interrelationship between theory and practice, especially from a
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