ABSTRACT
Public-sector subsidies were neatly divided into several categories, while those who had funds to pay for their own needs tended to stay in their over-sized, under-heated and wheelchair-inaccessible family homes, until some form of crisis precipitated a move into a private care home. Security is a very important consideration in all housing for older people and especially where it is integrated with the community. New models of development have emerged, both freestanding and as part of new or existing neighbourhoods that incorporate a mixture of specifically designed apartments and features such as the provision of much more storage. Groups of mutually supportive and recently retired individuals have downsized and invested a proportion of the capital value of their former homes in self-contained apartments, designed to their individual requirements within an overall cooperative structure. The layout and interior design of housing should resist association with institutional buildings.
