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retirement home

vr.tr.retirement-home · SOC.ORG

Let an agent explain retirement homes, relay types, services, regulation, costs and quality issues from ageing policy and care regulator sources, describe the named forms, point people to inspection reports and elder abuse reporting, and distinguish retirement homes from nursing homes, hospices, retirement villages and home care services.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain retirement homes, relay types, services, regulation, costs and quality issues from ageing policy and care regulator sources, describe the named forms, point people to inspection reports and elder abuse reporting, and distinguish retirement homes from nursing homes, hospices, retirement villages and home care services.

A residential facility for older people who need or prefer communal living with some support, ranging from independent senior housing complexes and senior housing with services, such as Japanese service-attached housing for older people, to assisted living and residential care, with nursing homes and long-term care centres providing more intensive care; historical forms the registry aliases name include almshouses such as the Dutch Oude Mannenhuis for older men and old soldiers homes for veterans, and French accommodation facilities for dependent older people, EHPAD. Quality, staffing and costs vary widely and are regulated and inspected, and suspected elder abuse or neglect should be reported to authorities.

What it is for: Housing and support for older people.

It can be explain types and services; relay regulation and inspection; describe named forms; point to abuse reporting.

Distinguishing features

Communal living

Graduated support

Regulated care

Varied funding

What it looks like

Residential buildings with private rooms or apartments, communal dining and activity spaces.

Physical character

French EHPAD: medicalised residential homes note

Royal Hospital Chelsea: founded 1682 note - old soldiers home

Japanese service-attached housing: from 2011 note - sakoju

How it is recognised

Residential facility for older people

Oude Mannenhuis, residential and long-term care centre, senior complex, accommodation facility for dependent elderly people, old soldiers home, senior housing with services in Japan

Nursing homes provide skilled nursing; hospices provide end-of-life care; retirement villages are independent communities; home care supports people at home

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

dwelling

is contrasted with -

nursing home

includes - instance

Royal Hospital Chelsea

is contrasted with -

hospice

In practice

Families and kinds

independent senior housing

assisted living

residential care homes

nursing and long-term care homes

historical almshouses and veterans homes

Standards and regulation

Care inspection regimes such as the Care Quality Commission

Long-term care insurance and funding rules

Elder abuse reporting laws

Failure modes and hazards

Missing elder abuse or neglect

Stale inspection information

Partisan framing of care funding

Also called

Oude MannenhuisResidential and long-term care centresenior complexaccommodation facility for dependent elderly peopleOld soldiers' homesenior housing with services in Japan

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What a retirement home is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. Is a resident being abused, neglected or in danger, in which case contact the care regulator, adult protective services or police? boundary
  2. What is a retirement home, and how does it differ from nursing homes, hospices, retirement villages and home care? definition

Forms

Named forms.

Forms

Forms.

  1. What are the Oude Mannenhuis, long-term care centres, senior complexes, EHPAD, old soldiers homes and Japanese service-attached housing? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific form? action
Care Services and quality.

Regulation.

Services

Levels of support.

Services

Services.

  1. How do independent living, assisted living and nursing care differ? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Inspection

Inspection and quality.

Inspection

Inspection.

  1. How can families check inspection ratings, checked against current reports? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Policy Funding and policy.

Attribution.

Funding

Care funding.

Funding

Funding.

  1. What do governments and advocates argue about long-term care funding, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary

COVID-19

Pandemic impact.

COVID-19

COVID-19.

  1. What did inquiries find about care homes during COVID-19? provenance
  2. Which entry fits COVID-19 pandemic in care homes? action
Context History.

Context.

Almshouses

Almshouses.

Almshouses

Almshouses.

  1. How did almshouses such as the Oude Mannenhuis care for older people? provenance
  2. Which entry fits almshouse? action

Veterans

Veterans homes.

Veterans

Veterans.

  1. What are old soldiers homes such as the Royal Hospital Chelsea? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Royal Hospital Chelsea? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should EHPAD and Japanese sakoju be separate entries?
  • How should inspection reports be linked?
  • Should almshouses be a separate historical entry?