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Affordable Clustered Housing-Care: A Viable Alternative for Long-Term Care in a Residential Setting?
07/30/2007 | Requests *Summary
For people who have disabilities and consequent difficulty living independently, living in the community requires not only medical and support services, but also housing. This paper explores one approach to merging the worlds of housing and long-term care clustered housing-care. Clustered housing-care arrangements make it possible for individuals to age in place in secure, comfortable, residential-like settings. The paper defines, discusses the impact and questions the futures of this concept.
Author
Golant, Ph.D., Steve
Available Files
- Issue Brief PDF (179K, 4 pages)
- Issue Brief Off-site link (4 pages)
Keywords
Independent Living; quality implications; clustered housing-care
Topic
Aging Issues, Housing, Long-Term Care
Type/Tool
Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers
Source
AdademyHealth-The Building Bridges Initiative
State
All States/Territories
Date Created
07/30/2007
Contact
Academy Health
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* Reflects requests since January 1, 2007
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HCBS / Clearinghouse for the Community Living Exchange Collaborative / (http://www.hcbs.org)