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The diversity of terms and meanings relating to housing with services for older people confounds systematic analysis, especially in international comparative research. This paper presents an analysis of over 90 terms identified in literature from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand reporting types of housing with services under the umbrella of ‘service integrated housing’ (SIH), defined as all forms of accommodation built specifically for older people in which the housing provider takes responsibility for delivery of one or more types of support and care services. A small number of generic terms covering housing for people in later life, home and community care, and institutional care are reviewed first to define the scope of SIH. Review of the remainder identifies different terms applied to similar types of SIH, similar terms applied to different types, and different terms that distinguish different types. Terms are grouped into those covering SIH focused on lifestyle and recreation, those offering only support services, and those offering care as well as support. Considerable commonality is found in underlying forms of SIH, and common themes emerge in discussion of drivers of growth and diversification, formal policies and programmes, and symbolic meanings. In establishing more commonality than difference, clarification of terminology advances policy debate, programme development, research and knowledge transfer within and between countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The epidemiological health transition in Indonesia has lead to a substantial ageing of its population and a rapid increase in the prevalence of chronic progressive illnesses in advanced age that, in most cases, require some sort of care. This shift from ‘cure’ to ‘care’ necessitates new paradigms in both health-care delivery and research on older people in less-developed countries. Care involves both attitudes and practice, and is a dynamic interaction between giver and recipient. The vulnerability of frail older people is strongly related to the resources, capability and willingness of kin and non-kin to act as care-givers for extended periods. Normative filial piety and kinship obligations are no longer undisputed. This paper reports a study of the care and support received by chronically ill older people in urban areas of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The majority rely on close family members, most often a wife or a daughter (or both), to provide treatment, care and support. The main care activities are support with ‘activities of daily living’ and therapies for specific illnesses. Caregivers experience manifold burdens when providing care for frail older people, and tend to reduce their support as the severity and duration of their relative's illness increases. It is shown that an older person's vulnerability to inadequate care provision, or its withdrawal, is associated with marital status and gender (unmarried women and widows being most at risk), poverty, weak support networks, and having caregivers who are themselves vulnerable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: This paper aims to identify barriers that frail community-dwelling older adults experience regarding access to formal care and support services., Background: Universal access to healthcare has been set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a main goal for the post-2015 development agenda. Nevertheless, regarding access to care, particular attention has to be paid to the so-called vulnerable groups, such as (frail) older adults., Methods: Both inductive and deductive content analyses were performed on 22 individual interviews with frail, community-dwelling older adults who indicated they lacked care and support. The coding scheme was generated from the conceptual framework '6A's of access to care and support' (referring to work of Penchansky and Thomas, 1981; Wyszewianski, 2002; Saurman, 2016) and applied on the transcripts., Findings: Results indicate that (despite all policy measures) access to a broad spectrum of care and support services remains a challenge for older people in Belgium. The respondents' barriers concern: 'affordability' referring to a lot of Belgian older adults having limited pensions, 'accessibility' going beyond geographical accessibility but also concerning waiting lists, 'availability' referring to the lack of having someone around, 'adequacy' addressing the insufficiency of motivated staff, the absence of trust in care providers influencing 'acceptability', and 'awareness' referring to limited health literacy. The discussion develops the argument that in order to make care and support more accessible for people in order to be able to age in place, governments should take measures to overcome these access limitations (eg, by automatic entitlements) and should take into account a broad description of access. Also, a seventh barrier (a seventh A) within the results, namely 'ageism', was discovered.