Community and ageing: Maintaining quality of life in housing with care settings (Ageing and the Lifecourse)

Specialist forms of housing with care are becoming increasingly popular in the UK, largely as a result of the ageing of the population and the relative wealth of the latest generation of older people. Retirement villages and extra care housing are two models of provision that have seen particularly spectacular growth. This is partly because, in many ways, they are perceived to promote government agendas for increasing independence and wellbeing for older people. They also aim to meet older people's aspirations for a good quality of life in their retirement years and to live somewhere they feel they belong. Community and Ageing provides an overview of how the housing with care sector has developed, both in the UK and internationally. This important book investigates changing concepts and experiences of community across the lifecourse and into older age and how they play out in housing with care settings. The book emphasizes the central importance of a sense of community for older people