ABSTRACT
From the perspective of housing and the elderly, two major issues are highly interconnected. One is the issue of affordability of housing, and the other is the issue of providing a variety of services to the people who increasingly need them, as they become older and more frail and dependent. The old Delafield Hospital, reborn and thriving as a model of how the housing and service gap can be filled, is a showplace, an exemplary place to see an incredible variety of organizations working together, reaching out into the community, providing ambulatory and primary care, and providing emergency services for residents of the houses. The long term care challenge becomes how to alter existing environments to accommodate the disabled; how to provide services within the community; and how to get the elderly who are in need of these services into such environments.
