The Newsletter inform the Foundation Age four times a year in on news from the field of housing age. It reports on activities of the Foundation Age and other current events that affect the housing for the elderly.
COMPETITION TO PALLIATIVE CARE:
The deadline was 30 September 2008. This public tender, the foundation for the next Age Age Award-patient institution has sought to live a better palliative care approach. could participate in the competition inpatient institutions in the age range. We will report on the result. For more information, see the Tender process here ...
EXTERNAL NEWS:
information on Palliative Care
CURAVIVA, the Association of Homes and institutions in Switzerland, employs intensively for about two years with the topic Palliative Care In September 2007 she released the publication "places to live - places of death" Palliative Care in nursing institutions. Together with Caritas Switzerland offers CURAVIVA an institution-house training for optimal support and care at the end of life. "The complete life," say the modular course for nursing homes. In the same framework, a tool for determining location is created you can check with the nursing institutions continue to work in Palliative Care. NEW offers CURAVIVA first time from autumn 2008 to a course in palliative care, which is aimed at professionals in the field of care. For more information, click here ...
INVESTMENTS:
carrier-initiated household type in
At the fire road in a quiet examination results by the end of 2009, central location of a Community building over three Cooperatives. The house, which generates the Gewo Züri East comprises 19 apartments and various community facilities. It is directed under the name "plus / minus 50" to (re) childless households. The building is designed so that a possible fate into older age. The interest in the eight 2 ½ - 3 ½ and the eleven-room flats is high. The project management is currently appropriate inquiries contrary, are still underrepresented men. more ...
INVESTMENTS:
children and the elderly care day
change with the change in population structure, the space needs in the communities. A classic example is the vacancy of former school buildings. In Niederscherli (BE) were born of private initiative, in close cooperation with the community, a nursery for 12 children, a youth club, a toy library and a public zumietbarer meeting room for various uses. This offering is now a relief for family caregivers. In the same building, However, with a separate entrance, is to be a supervised day care center for elderly people to care. more ...
AGE PROJECTS:
New release: New housing in the second half of life
We are not only older, we work longer, are more active and enterprising, as it were our grandparents. Thus the second half of life is now marked for many people of diverse activities that require a self-determined action with and without disabilities or other limitations. In this context is the question of living arrangements, which allow these longer and becoming more important stage of life be based on individual tastes and needs. In addition to that of the majority of older people still favored living in their ancestral home, new community living such neighborhood, house or residential communities, intergenerational housing projects, different models of housing with care and Wohngruppen.Vor this background, well-known authors consider the various aspects of the second phase of life. In addition, in Switzerland and Germany, completed projects are presented and their practical application is analyzed. The edition is from ETH LIVING Living Forum, an interdisciplinary research center at the Swiss Federal Department of Architecture University of Zurich, published. It presents selected topics from the broad field of housing and is aimed at a specialist-general and a culture-interested audience. Website: ETH Wohnforum
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