An Architect Discovers the Aged

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The question of age-homogeneity versus age-heterogeneity in housing for the elderly is suggested to be peripheral to the central issue: the provision for dealing with increased dependency and declining health without traumatic uprooting and removal. A review of pertinent literature relating aging to housing practices also seemed to contradict a basic assumption of many architects that age-heterogeneous rather than homogeneous housing yields greater living arrangement satisfaction for most old people. These findings suggest that many architects work with assumptions that do not reflect current data from the behavioral sciences and that some means should be developed to remedy this situation.

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