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Meaning of Home in Later Life as a Concept to Understand Older Adults’ Housing Needs: Results from the 7 Age-Friendly Cities Pilot Project in Québec

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Marion Droz Mendelzweig & Maria Grazia Bedin. (2023) The Perimeter of the Home in Old Age: Reflecting on the Sense of Home in a Sheltered Housing Facility During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Aging and Environment 37:2, pages 202-218.
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Stephen Frochen & Jon Pynoos. (2017) Housing for the Elderly: Addressing Gaps in Knowledge Through the Lens of Age-Friendly Communities. Journal of Housing For the Elderly 31:2, pages 160-177.
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Elin Mauritzson, Kevin J. McKee, Marie Elf & Johan Borg. (2023) Older Adults’ Experiences, Worries and Preventive Measures Regarding Home Hazards: A Survey on Home Safety in Sweden. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20:2, pages 1458.
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Yukiko Kuboshima & Jacqueline McIntosh. (2022) The impact of housing environments on social connection: an ethnographic investigation on quality of life for older adults with care needs. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.
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Gwendoline Schaff, Ann Petermans, Jan Vanrie, Fabienne Courtejoie & Catherine Elsen. (2022) Architecture of home in later life: towards a fivefold theoretical model. Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 16:2, pages 413-433.
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Stefanie Ettelt, Lorraine Williams, Jacqueline Damant, Margaret Perkins & Raphael Wittenberg. (2020) What kind of home is your care home? A typology of personalised care provided in residential and nursing homes. Ageing and Society 42:5, pages 993-1013.
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Atiya Mahmood, Kishore Seetharaman, Hailey-Thomas Jenkins & Habib Chaudhury. (2022) Contextualizing Innovative Housing Models and Services Within the Age-Friendly Communities Framework. The Gerontologist 62:1, pages 66-74.
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Assumpta A. Ryan & Kevin Moore. (2021) ‘Knowing me, knowing you’: an exploration of the views and experiences of nursing home residents and staff on their nursing home as ‘home’. Ageing and Society, pages 1-22.
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Kristen E. Ravi, Noelle L. Fields & Holly Dabelko-Schoeny. (2021) Outdoor spaces and buildings, transportation, and environmental justice: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis of two age-friendly domains. Journal of Transport & Health 20, pages 100977.
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Mineko Wada, Sarah L. Canham, Lupin Battersby, Judith Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, Mei Lan Fang & Andrew Sixsmith. (2019) Perceptions of home in long-term care settings: before and after institutional relocation. Ageing and Society 40:6, pages 1267-1290.
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