http://hdl.handle.net/2173/41933 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:31:22 GMT 2013-05-19T01:31:22Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/117657 Title: Birley Fields development. Impact on the local community: health and wellbeing. Working Paper 1: Context setting Authors: Kagan, Carolyn; Duggan, Karen Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/117657 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/117655 Title: Birley Fields development. Impact on the local community: health and wellbeing. Working Paper 2: Masterplanning, consultation and initial community involvement Authors: Kagan, Carolyn; Duggan, Karen Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/117655 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/86131 Title: Relationships between housing and healthy aging in very old age Authors: Sixsmith, Judith; Oswald, Frank; Wahl, Hans-Werner; Schilling, Oliver; Nygren, Carita; Iwarsson, Susanne; Fänge, Agneta; Sixsmith, Andrew; Széman, Zsuzsa; Tomsone, Signe Abstract: Our purpose in this study was to explore relationships between aspects of objective and perceived housing in five European samples of very old adults, as well as to investigate whether cross-national comparable patterns exist. Design and Methods: We utilized data from the first wave of the ENABLE–AGE Survey Study. The five national samples totalled 1,918 individuals aged 75 to 89 years. Objective assessments of the home environment covered the number of environmental barriers as well as the magnitude of accessibility problems (an aspect of person–environment fit). To assess perceptions of housing, we used instruments on usability, meaning of home, and housing satisfaction. We also assessed housing-related control. Results: Overall, the results revealed that the magnitude of accessibility problems, rather than the number of physical environmental barriers, was associated with perceptions of activity-oriented aspects of housing. That is, very old people living in more accessible housing perceived their homes as more useful and meaningful in relation to their routines and everyday activities, and they were less dependent on external control in relation to their housing. The patterns of such relationships were similar in the five national samples. Implications: Objective and perceived aspects of housing have to be considered in order to understand the dynamics of aging in place, and the results can be used in practice contexts that target housing for senior citizens. Description: This metadata relates to an article accepted for publication in The Gerontologist following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version The gerontologist, 2007, vol. 47 no. 1 , pp. 96-107 is available online at: http://gerontologist.gerontologyjournals.org Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/86131 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/86129 Title: Homeward bound: introducing a four domain model of perceived housing in very old age Authors: Sixsmith, Judith; Oswald, Frank; Schilling, Oliver; Wahl, Hans-Werner; Fänge, Agneta; Iwarsson, Susanne Abstract: The aim of this article is to introduce an integrative and more comprehensive approach to understanding and measuring perceived housing in old age. First, four conceptual domains of subjective housing were introduced, based on the assumption that each of the domains brings a unique perspective to the understanding of perceived housing: housing satisfaction, usability in the home, meaning of home and housing-related control beliefs. Second, relationships between the proposed domains were empirically examined using correlative analysis, factor analysis and structural equation modelling (SEM) techniques. Cross-cultural similarities and differences in the observed empirical relations were then analysed across three Western European countries. Data were drawn from a sub-sample of the participants in the European ENABLE-AGE Project amounting to 1223 old adults aged 80–89 years and living alone in their private homes in Swedish, British, and German urban regions. The ENABLE-AGE data set has the advantage of containing measures related to all four domains of perceived housing which are the focus of this paper. The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis as well as of the SEM give empirical support for the usefulness of the theoretically proposed four component model of perceived housing. Furthermore, multi-group analysis supports the assumption of similarity of perceived housing among older people living in the different countries. Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Journal of Environmental Psychology, published by and copyright Academic Press. Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/86129 2006-09-01T00:00:00Z