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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Retirement Community"”.
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Minnetonka countryside : a retirement community
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Strategies for retirement community development in China
… China such as the institutions for the elderly, community support, and the master planned retirement communities. The strength and weakness of each living arrangement is highlighted. Suggestions of a three-tiered system are made. Care is given to living arrangements that enable inter-generational …
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Factors influencing relocation to a retirement community
… to identify factors influencing relocation to retirement communities. Participants were residents of two New Jersey retirement communities which offered single family detached dwelling units with common grounds, community recreational facilities, and security guards. Residents paid monthly …
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Transitions to Assisted Living Within a Continuing Care Retirement Community
… setting, both situated within a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC).</p> <p>Rationale: Anecdotally, CCRC transitions have been viewed as either one dreaded possible step toward the end of life or a supportive place to open a new chapter in older adults’ lives. However, no studies have …
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Baby Boomer Living: Designing a Modern Continuing Care Retirement Community
… the largest U.S. generation in the midst of retirement, the Baby Boomer cohort is vastly changing the senior housing landscape. As the housing market gradually improves and the development of senior housing chases the increasing demand, Baby Boomers are a highly selective cohort with more …
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Achieving a Financially Secure Retirement: A Retirement Community Case Study
… about their financial quality of life in retirement. The media is replete with a plethora of advertisements for retirement planning and financial products for an aging population. By 2030, nearly 20 percent of the population of the United States will be 65 or older. This case study was an …
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Older Single Women in Transition: Moving to a Supportive Retirement Community
… encountered by older women who transitioned to a retirement community that provided social, health, and safety support structures. The aim of this study was to analyze and describe the transition from the viewpoint of the participants. Although previous research has shown transitions lead to …
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A comparative analysis of movers and non-movers to a retirement community
… exist between movers and non-movers to a retirement community in the areas of demographic characteristics, residential characteristics of the most recent age-integrated community dwelling, and residential satisfaction. A personal interview schedule was developed and administered to a …
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Fitness trails for continuing care retirement community residents: motivational cues to participation
… fitness trails by residents of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) was investigated. Previous research suggested that both the walking and exercise parts of these fitness trails are being used by only a small percentage of' the residents. A checklist was used to identify the number of …
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Supportive Design Features in Kitchens and Bathrooms of Age-Restricted Retirement Community Homes
… being built for persons living in age-restricted retirement communities. A list of research and design recommendations based on empirical research was compiled and ordered into categories of supportive features for general, kitchen, and bathroom design for seniors. Design recommendations were …
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Connecting: the use of information and communication technologies by older adults in a retirement community
… 30 older adults (ages 70–97) living in a large retirement community. The study spanned the years of 1996 to 2008, during which time the research participants grappled with the challenges of computer use while aging 12 years. The researcher, herself a ‘mature learner,’ used a qualitative research …
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"I don't want to go up the hill": Symbolic Boundary Work Among Residents of an Assisted Living Community
… among residents of a progressive care retirement community. Accounts of boundary work as mechanisms for including some and excluding other residents as potential friends were collected by using a combination of quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews from residents (age 65+) of …
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Measures of awkwardness
… these ideas to a program at the scale of a community, in this case, a retirement community. For most people, the move into a retirement community is dreaded as representing a loss of freedom and individuality. This thesis's strategies of mediation attempt to mitigate the anxieties of a new …
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The Elderly And Internet Usage In Holly Springs, Mississippi
… Mississippi, a predominantly African-American retirement community 30 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. This study validates the difficulties senior citizens face when learning how to access the Internet. Cognitive issues revealed that senior citizens could not understand basic computer …
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ARAACtional exuberance : lessons and prospects for age-restricted active adult housing development in Massachusetts
… to the region: the age-restricted active adult retirement community (ARAAC). The growth proved too much for the market to handle, and now developers and municipalities alike are coping with the fallout from oversupply, partially completed projects, and recession-dampened demand. This thesis …
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Reminiscence, life review, and journals: effects on the well-being of older adults
… well-being, a sample of 30 residents in a retirement community was studied, using a quasiexperimental, pretest-posttest design. Research subjects, average age 78 years, were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. All were pre- and post-tested by four instruments: Life …
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Independent Living Retirement Facilities: The Effect of Push and Pull Factors on Residential Satisfaction
… to older adults is an independent living retirement facility. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between motivations for moving to independent living retirement facilities and subsequent satisfaction with that environment. The sample for this study consisted of …
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Aging in community
Baby Boomers are on the brink of retirement. According to U.S. Census Bureau projections, the number of people aged 65 and over will more than double in the coming decades, growing from 35 million in 2000 to 72 million in 2030. The current housing stock in the United States is incapable of …
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Staying Power: Aging in Community and the Village Model
… are becoming a popular and rapidly adopted community-based intervention, but research on Villages has been limited. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how two groups of older adults living in a suburban Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC) aged in community. …
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Clothing satisfaction and self-concept of older women
… The sample consisted of 81 female residents of a retirement community in Salem, Virginia, and members of senior centers located in Floyd, Christiansburg, and Radford, Virginia. A questionnaire was developed for this research because a suitable one did not exist. It consisted of demographic …
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