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New Solutions for “Old” Problems: Implications and Opportunities of Intergenerational HomeSharing

Across North America, many older adults have expressed their preference to live in their own homes and communities for as long as possible — and to 'age in place'. To address challenges faced by older adults living in the community, home-sharing - an exchange-based intergenerational housin...

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Autores principales: Mirza, Raza, Tanner, Jacalyn, Hull, James, Hocking, Taylor, Liu, Anna, Hsieh, Jessica, Klinger, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8681253/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2871
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author Mirza, Raza
Tanner, Jacalyn
Hull, James
Hocking, Taylor
Liu, Anna
Hsieh, Jessica
Klinger, Christopher
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description Across North America, many older adults have expressed their preference to live in their own homes and communities for as long as possible — and to 'age in place'. To address challenges faced by older adults living in the community, home-sharing - an exchange-based intergenerational housing approach, has empowered older adults to ‘thrive in place’ by providing additional income, companionship, and support with household tasks. In 2018, Toronto HomeShare was launched as an intergenerational home-sharing pilot program (n=22), matching older adults (55+) with postsecondary students intending to simultaneously address social isolation and the affordable housing crisis. In 2019, the pilot was adopted as a funded program in the City of Toronto with over 200 participants. Program results highlight unique benefits and challenges for older adults participating in home-sharing: (1) the capacity for intergenerational engagement to fulfill social needs, and (2) the importance of agency facilitation as a determinant of the experience for older adults. Survey findings indicate 88% of participants reported that participation in HomeShare positively impacted their general well-being, 88% reported improved financial security, 94% reported a delay in the need to move out of their community, and 72% felt that participation in HomeShare prevented the need for institutional care. These findings were used to transition Toronto HomeShare into a fully funded program as well as in the development of a national program. Beginning in January 2021 Toronto HomeShare transitioned to Canada HomeShare and will be scaling the program to Vancouver, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calgary, Montreal and other Canadian cities.
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spelling pubmed-86812532021-12-17 New Solutions for “Old” Problems: Implications and Opportunities of Intergenerational HomeSharing Mirza, Raza Tanner, Jacalyn Hull, James Hocking, Taylor Liu, Anna Hsieh, Jessica Klinger, Christopher Innov Aging Abstracts Across North America, many older adults have expressed their preference to live in their own homes and communities for as long as possible — and to 'age in place'. To address challenges faced by older adults living in the community, home-sharing - an exchange-based intergenerational housing approach, has empowered older adults to ‘thrive in place’ by providing additional income, companionship, and support with household tasks. In 2018, Toronto HomeShare was launched as an intergenerational home-sharing pilot program (n=22), matching older adults (55+) with postsecondary students intending to simultaneously address social isolation and the affordable housing crisis. In 2019, the pilot was adopted as a funded program in the City of Toronto with over 200 participants. Program results highlight unique benefits and challenges for older adults participating in home-sharing: (1) the capacity for intergenerational engagement to fulfill social needs, and (2) the importance of agency facilitation as a determinant of the experience for older adults. Survey findings indicate 88% of participants reported that participation in HomeShare positively impacted their general well-being, 88% reported improved financial security, 94% reported a delay in the need to move out of their community, and 72% felt that participation in HomeShare prevented the need for institutional care. These findings were used to transition Toronto HomeShare into a fully funded program as well as in the development of a national program. Beginning in January 2021 Toronto HomeShare transitioned to Canada HomeShare and will be scaling the program to Vancouver, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calgary, Montreal and other Canadian cities. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8681253/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2871 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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