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Inside Retirement Housing: Designing, Developing and Sustaining Later Lifestyles

Author/EditorClark, Sam (Cardiff University) (Author)
ISBN: 9781447357629
Pub Date11/11/2022
BindingHardback
Pages300
Dimensions (mm)234(h) * 156(w)
Through stories and visual vignettes, it presents a range of stakeholders involved in the design, construction, management and habitation of third-age housing in the UK, to highlight the importance of design decisions for the everyday lives of older people.
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Many developed nations face the challenge of accommodating a growing, ageing population and creating appropriate forms of housing suitable for older people.
Written by an architect, this practice-led ethnography of retirement housing offers new perspectives on environmental gerontology. Through stories and visual vignettes, it presents a range of stakeholders involved in the design, construction, management and habitation of third-age housing in the UK, to highlight the importance of design decisions for the everyday lives of older people.
Drawing on unique and interdisciplinary research methods, its fresh approach shows researchers how well-designed retirement housing can enable older people to successfully age in place for longer, and challenges designers, developers and providers to evolve their design practices and products.

Many developed nations face the challenge of accommodating a growing, ageing population and creating appropriate forms of housing suitable for older people.
Written by an architect, this practice-led ethnography of retirement housing offers new perspectives on environmental gerontology. Through stories and visual vignettes, it presents a range of stakeholders involved in the design, construction, management and habitation of third-age housing in the UK, to highlight the importance of design decisions for the everyday lives of older people.
Drawing on unique and interdisciplinary research methods, its fresh approach shows researchers how well-designed retirement housing can enable older people to successfully age in place for longer, and challenges designers, developers and providers to evolve their design practices and products.

Sam Clark is Reader at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University.

Forewords Bringing Design Research into Gerontology - Judith Phillips Architectural Intelligence, for Older People - Adam Sharr Introduction Part 1: Ageing 1. Ageing Context 2. Specialist Accommodation 3. Baby Boomers 4. Vulnerable Friend Part 2: Villas 5. Villa Context 6. Developer Director 7. Resident Owner 8. Villa Manager Part 3: Professionals 9. Professional Context 10. Architecture Student 11. Company Architect 12. Town Planner Part 4: Reflections 13. Design Tweaks 14. Retirement Reviewed 15. Global Outlook

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