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Profiling the Housing Stock for
Older People
The Transition from Domesticity to Caring
The Research Team
Principal Investigator
Dr. Julienne Hanson,
The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London,
Co-investigators:
• Professor Mike Rowlands,
Department of Anthropology, University College London,
• Leonie Kellaher,
CESSA, University of North London
Research Assistant:
Reem Zako
The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London,
Anthropologists on the project:
Caroline Holland
John-Sebastien Marcoux
John Percival
Building Survey Researchers on the project:
Colin Boult
Barbara Lucas
Research Aims
The main aims of this research are:
 To gather detailed information about the housing circumstances of older people across
England for managers and architects to use in planning housing for the future;
 To understand, through discussion with older people themselves, the ways in which
housing design and layout can help or hinder arrangements for care and support,
whenever this may become necessary;
 To produce, and make widely available, a report and guidelines for all concerned architects, planners, managers, older people, their relatives and carers which reveals what
older people prefer and need in their housing;
• Most importantly, this research intends to be responsive to the voices of the informants as
they describe their ideas and aspirations about the kind of housing and support they want
as they grow older.
Sampling
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Sampling has be taken within a
transect through the South-East of
England from East Anglia through
Central London to Dorset and
through the North-West of England
from the Fylde coast through
Merseyside & Greater Manchester
to rural Cheshire.
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Based on primary research in 6
localities in 2 regions of the
country.
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A Case Study in Bracknell
Mrs B.
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Brief family profile and housing history.
79 year old widow, living alone in 4 bed house, her
home for 43 years...
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Health.
Has arthritis, a prolapse, shoulder replacement and
mobility problems.
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Community Connections. Cannot afford to attend
day centre more than once a week..
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Family Connections with Home.
Visited every 4-6 weeks; children's games still in
their old bedrooms...
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Friends Connection with Home.
Friends have died or moved on...
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Support Services Connection with Home
Home Help cleans and shops once a week...
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Plans and Perspectives on Moving Home.
Needs to move but identity suffers with loss of
"family home" ...
Uses of Space within the Home
Perceptions of Space within the Home.
Sits by the "glory-hole"; eats in dining room so won't get "slapdash"..
Having necessary things near at hand makes place look "cluttered"....
Relationship With Objects
"Trappings" are valued but can be traded for companionship...
Aids and Equipment. & Daily Routine.
"I've got the house but that doesn't buy a bath-seat".
Bathes at night as physically easier to get dry in bed...
Changes of Use of Space and Allied Activities within the Home.
Spare room for ironing board; stair-lift used for transporting laundry...