Specialised residential care for older people subject to homelessness: experiences of residents and staff of a new aged care home in Australia

C Preti, CJ Poulos, RG Poulos, NL Reynolds… - BMC geriatrics, 2024 - Springer
Background The number of older people experiencing homelessness in Australia is rising,
yet there is a lack of specialised residential care for older people subject to homelessness …

Designing residential aged care for people at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness: An exploratory Australian study

A Rowlands, R Poulos, M Agaliotis… - Health & Social Care …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The number of older people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, both long‐term and
first‐time homelessness, is increasing. The proportion of women facing homelessness within …

An Australian aged care home for people subject to homelessness: health, wellbeing and cost–benefit

CMC O'Connor, RG Poulos, A Sharma, C Preti… - BMC geriatrics, 2023 - Springer
Background Older people subject to homelessness face many challenges including poor
health status, geriatric syndromes, and depression, coupled with barriers in accessing …

A 'home for life'in residential homes for older people in England: exploring the enhancers and inhibitors

D Wild, S Nelson, A Szczepura - Housing, Care and Support, 2010 - emerald.com
A three‐year in‐depth study has examined three models to improvecare in residential
homes for older people in England. The study showed that each aimed to provide a 'home …

Making care homes part of the community? An evaluation of the Gloucestershire partnerships for older people project

S Evans, R Means, J Powell - Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 2013 - emerald.com
Purpose–This paper report on the evaluation of a project that aimed to improve the
integration of care homes with health and social care services and with the wider …

Quality of life versus quality of care: elderly people and their experience of care in South Australian residential facilities

K Hughes, S Moore - Practice, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Residential aged care facilities provide care to elderly people but do they provide quality of
life? Current issues such as the growth of the elderly population, increasing longevity and …

The challenges of integrating housing and care for older people.

A Cameron, E Johnson, T Atkinson… - … of Integrated Care …, 2019 - search.ebscohost.com
Introduction: Faced with rising numbers of older people in need of care and restrictions on
public expenditure in the UK, extra care housing (ECH) has been hailed as an integrated …

Housing options for elderly or chronically ill shelter users

L Serge - 2003 - policycommons.net
Despite the development and delivery of the solutions reported in this document, the needs
of elderly and chronically ill homeless people in Canada are still largely unmet.[...] Long …

A qualitative exploration of older people's lived experiences of homelessness and memory problems–stakeholder perspectives

P Rapaport, G Kidd, RE Jeraldo, A Mason, M Knapp… - BMC geriatrics, 2023 - Springer
Background The numbers of older people experiencing both homelessness and memory
problems are growing, yet their complex health, housing and care needs remain …

[PDF][PDF] Addressing later life homelessness

M Petersen, A Jones - 2013 - oldertenants.org.au
This report examines older people's homelessness in Australia. It follows on from the earlier
report Homelessness and Older Australians: Scoping the Issues, published in 2011. The …