Het Kwaliteitskader Housing First is ontwikkeld om Housing First-praktijken te ondersteunen bij het versterken van hun werkwijze. Het kader helpt bij het reflecteren op hoe trouw de uitvoering is aan de kernprincipes van Housing First. Housing First is een bewezen effectieve aanpak voor de groep dakloze mensen met complexe, meervoudige problematiek. De effectiviteit van deze aanpak hangt sterk af van de mate waarin de kernprincipes worden nageleefd. Housing First werkt het beste als de kernprincipes volledig en consequent worden toegepast. Onderzoek toont aan dat de effectiviteit van Housing First afneemt zodra er wordt afgeweken van de kernprincipes. Het trouw blijven aan deze principes is daarom essentieel voor de kwaliteit en impact van de Housing First-praktijk.
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Het Kwaliteitskader Housing First is ontwikkeld om Housing First-praktijken te ondersteunen bij het versterken van hun werkwijze. Het kader helpt bij het reflecteren op hoe trouw de uitvoering is aan de kernprincipes van Housing First. Housing First is een bewezen effectieve aanpak voor de groep dakloze mensen met complexe, meervoudige problematiek. De effectiviteit van deze aanpak hangt sterk af van de mate waarin de kernprincipes worden nageleefd. Housing First werkt het beste als de kernprincipes volledig en consequent worden toegepast. Onderzoek toont aan dat de effectiviteit van Housing First afneemt zodra er wordt afgeweken van de kernprincipes. Het trouw blijven aan deze principes is daarom essentieel voor de kwaliteit en impact van de Housing First-praktijk. Dit rapport betreft de korte versie.
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Senior co-housing communities offer an in-between solution for older people who do not want to live in an institutional setting but prefer the company of their age peers. Residents of co-housing communities live in their own apartments but undertake activities together and support one another. This paper adds to the literature by scrutinizing the benefits and drawbacks of senior co-housing, with special focus on the forms and limits of social support and the implications for the experience of loneliness. Qualitative fieldwork was conducted in eight co-housing communities in the Netherlands, consisting of document analysis, interviews, focus groups, and observations. The research shows that co-housing communities offer social contacts, social control, and instrumental and emotional support. Residents set boundaries regarding the frequency and intensity of support. The provided support partly relieves residents’ adult children from caregiving duties but does not substitute formal and informal care. Due to their access to contacts and support, few residents experience social loneliness. Co-housing communities can potentially also alleviate emotional loneliness, but currently, this happens to a limited degree. The paper concludes with practical recommendations for enhancing the benefits and reducing the drawbacks of senior co-housing. Original article at MDPI; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193776
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The development of an integrated ethical or normative model to design housing for persons with impairments and diseases, focusing on older persons with dementia.
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This paper investigates the relationship between self-build housing and the wider planning and housing regime. Although there is growing policy and academic attention to self-build housing, there is a lack of understanding of the institutional and regulatory conditions shaping the prospects of such housing provision. This paper takes the case of The Netherlands and scrutinizes how institutional dynamics over time have made lower and middle residents dependent on densely organized consortia of municipalities, housing associations and developers. These norms of land development appear to be at odds with the logic of self-building. Through exploring evidence in a pilot study of a municipal self-building scheme in Almere, the authors suggest that making self-building the cornerstone of a resident-led land development strategy, also for low- and middle-incomes, implies a reconfiguration of the actors’ positions in housing provision. This entails a commissioning role for residents in the institutional domain of social and commercial developers.
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The “Creating Age-friendly Communities: Housing and Technology” publication presents contemporary, innovative, and insightful narratives, debates, and frameworks based on an international collection of papers from scholars spanning the fields of gerontology, social sciences, architecture, computer science, and gerontechnology. This extensive collection of papers aims to move the narrative and debates forward in this interdisciplinary field of age-friendly cities and communities. (This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Creating Age-friendly Communities: Housing and Technology that was published in Healthcare)
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Population ageing has become a domain of international discussions and research throughout the spectrum of disciplines including housing, urban planning, and real estate. Older people are encouraged to continue living in their homes in their familiar environment, and this is referred to as “ageing-in-place”. Enabling one to age-in-place requires new housing arrangements that facilitate and enable older adults to live comfortably into old age, preferably with others. Innovative examples are provided from a Dutch social housing association, illustrating a new approach to environmental design that focuses more on building new communities in conjunction with the building itself, as opposed to the occupational therapeutic approaches and environmental support. Transformation projects, referred to as “Second Youth Experiments”, are conducted using the Røring method, which is based on the principles of co-creation. De Benring in Voorst, The Netherlands, is provided as a case study of an innovative transformation project. This project shows how social and technological innovations can be integrated in the retrofitting of existing real estate for older people. It leads to a flexible use of the real estate, which makes the building system- and customer preference proof. Original article at: https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings8070089 © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI.
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Background: An estimated 18 million people in the world have to cope with a decline in intellectual functioning that is not a normal part of the ageing process, called dementia. By 2025, this number is expected to reach 34 million. Alzheimer's disease accounts for 50-70 % of all cases of dementia. In the Netherlands, about two thirds of those affected live at home, with or without a partner. The increasing group of older adults with dementia presents great challenges in terms of creating suitable living environments and appropriate housing. Extramural housing needs further development, as opposed to intramural housing, such as nursery homes. The new extramural housing forms account for and compensate decreasing vitality and overall health status through the use of ICT and other technologies to serve human well-being. This should facilitate both residents and alleviate the intensity of care given by voluntary and professional care givers. In order to create these optimal dwellings at cost effective prices, evidence-based introduction of architectural measures and technological applications is essential. Existing knowledge is best viewed as an effort to expand and stimulate thinking on the relationships between dementia and design; thus, knowledge is largely a collection of hypotheses amenable to, and requiring, implementation and validation.This PhD-project will research some of the design aspects and needs, relevant to the technological home environment for older adults with dementia. This PhD project is shared with Hogeschool Utrecht, Lectureship of Demand Driven Care. Aim of research: Assessing thermal, lighting, and acoustic requirements, feasible home modifications and teleservices to sustain independence and well-being, both being the end product of all services rendered. Results so far indicate that requirements of older adults with dementia differ largely from the requirements of healthy older adults.
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This paper presents work aimed at improved organization and performance of production in housing renovation projects. The purpose is to explore and demonstrate the potential of lean work organization and industrialized product technology to improve workflow and productive time. The research included selected case studies that have been found to implement lean work organization and industrialized product technology in an experimental setting. Adjustments to the work organization and construction technology have been implemented on site. The effects of the adjustments have been measured and were reviewed with operatives and managers. The data have been collected and analyzed, in comparison to traditional settings. Two projects were studied. The first case implied am application of lean work organization in which labor was reorganized redistributing and balancing operations among operatives of different trades. In the second case industrialized solution for prefabricated installation of prefabricated roofs. In both cases the labor productivity increased substantially compared to traditional situations. Although the limited number of cases, both situations appeared to be representative for other housing projects. This has led to conclusions extrapolated from both cases applicable to other projects, and contribution to the knowledge to improve production in construction. Vrijhoef, R. (2016). “Effects of Lean Work Organization and Industrialization on Workflow and Productive Time in Housing Renovation Projects.” In: Proc. 24 th Ann. Conf. of the Int’l. Group for Lean Construction, Boston, MA, USA, sect.2 pp. 63–72. Available at: .
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Supply chain partnerships within housing refurbishment have not been given much specific attention which may be found surprising because the refurbishment market is becoming of increasing importance compared to new construction and has specific characteristics that require adapted approaches to supply chain integration. In this paper approaches, expected benefits and challenges of supply chain partnerships within housing renovation are explored. From general literature on building process innovation, dimensions of supply chain integration and potential advantages and challenges of have been derived and employed in a preliminary inquiry among Dutch housing associations and their partners that are experimenting with supply chain partnering in housing refurbishment projects. The results indicate that approaches are in a relatively early stage of development towards ‘mature’ supply chain partnerships. Furthermore, many of the general expectations also apply to the Dutch housing refurbishment sector, but at a more detailed level, refurbishment may require specific attention for the division of tasks and risks between the partners, particularly regarding communication with tenants.
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