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Ageing well in the right place: partnership working with older people
Purpose: The provision of home and community supports can enable people to successfully age-in-place by improving physical and mental health, supporting social participation and enhancing independence, autonomy and choice. One challenge concerns the integration of place-based supports available as older people transition into affordable housing. Sustainable solutions need to be developed and implemented with the full involvement of communities, service organisations and older people themselves. Partnership building is an important component of this process. This article details the intricacies of developing partnerships with low-income older people, local service providers and nonprofit housing associations in the context of a Canadian housing development. Design/methodology/approach: A community based participatory approach was used to inform the data collection and partnership building process. The partnership building process progressed through a series of democratized committee meetings based on the principles of appreciative inquiry, four collaboration cafés with nonprofit housing providers, and four community mapping workshops with low-income older people. Data collection also involved 25 interviews and 15 photovoice sessions with the housing tenants. The common aims of partnership and data collection were to: (i) understand the challenges and opportunities experienced by older people, service providers and nonprofit housing providers; (ii) identify the perspectives of service providers and nonprofit housing providers for the provision and delivery of senior-friendly services and resources; and (iii) determine actions that can be undertaken to better meet the needs of service providers and nonprofit housing providers in order to help them better serve older people. Findings: The partnership prioritised the generation of a shared vision together with shared values, interests and the goal of co-creating meaningful housing solutions for older people transitioning into affordable housing. Input from interviews ...
Ageing well in the right place: partnership working with older people
Purpose: The provision of home and community supports can enable people to successfully age-in-place by improving physical and mental health, supporting social participation and enhancing independence, autonomy and choice. One challenge concerns the integration of place-based supports available as older people transition into affordable housing. Sustainable solutions need to be developed and implemented with the full involvement of communities, service organisations and older people themselves. Partnership building is an important component of this process. This article details the intricacies of developing partnerships with low-income older people, local service providers and nonprofit housing associations in the context of a Canadian housing development. Design/methodology/approach: A community based participatory approach was used to inform the data collection and partnership building process. The partnership building process progressed through a series of democratized committee meetings based on the principles of appreciative inquiry, four collaboration cafés with nonprofit housing providers, and four community mapping workshops with low-income older people. Data collection also involved 25 interviews and 15 photovoice sessions with the housing tenants. The common aims of partnership and data collection were to: (i) understand the challenges and opportunities experienced by older people, service providers and nonprofit housing providers; (ii) identify the perspectives of service providers and nonprofit housing providers for the provision and delivery of senior-friendly services and resources; and (iii) determine actions that can be undertaken to better meet the needs of service providers and nonprofit housing providers in order to help them better serve older people. Findings: The partnership prioritised the generation of a shared vision together with shared values, interests and the goal of co-creating meaningful housing solutions for older people transitioning into affordable housing. Input from interviews ...
Ageing well in the right place: partnership working with older people
Sixsmith, Judith (author) / Fang, Mei Lan (author) / Woolrych, Ryan (author) / Canham, Sarah (author) / Battersby, Lupin (author) / Sixsmith, Andrew (author)
2017-01-25
Sixsmith , J , Fang , M L , Woolrych , R , Canham , S , Battersby , L & Sixsmith , A 2017 , ' Ageing well in the right place: partnership working with older people ' , Working with Older People , vol. 21 , no. 1 , pp. 40 - 48 . https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-01-2017-0001
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