Group Residences for Older Adults

PART 1: Conceptual Overview and Description of Sample
1: A Conceptual Framework for Evaluation
1.1: Types of Congregate Living Environments
1.2: Historical Overview of Residential Programs
1.3: Conceptual Perspectives
1.4: The Residential Program
1.5: The Book in Brief
2: Characteristics of Residential Programs
2.1: The Samples of Facilities
2.2: The Multiphasic Environmental Assessment Procedure
2.3: the Suprapersonal Environment of Residential Settings
2.4: Selection and Allocation
PART II: Understanding the Program Environment
3: Physical and Architectural Features
3.1: Assessing Physical and Architectural Features
3.2: Physical Features and the Adequacy of Program Implementation
3.3: Research and Policy Applications
4: Policies and Services
4.1: Assessing Policy and Program Resources
4.2: Policies, Services, and the Adequacy of Program Implementation
4.3: Research and Policy Applications
5: Social Climate
5.1: Assessing Social Climate
5.2: Personal Factors and Environmental Perceptions
5.3: Social Climate and the Adequacy of Program Implementation
5.4: Research and Policy Applications
6: Ownership, Size, and Facility Quality
6.1: Ownership and Facility Quality
6.2: Proprietary Versus Nonprofit Ownership
6.3: Veterans Versus Proprietary and Nonprofit Ownership
6.4: Size and Facility Quality
6.5: Structural Variables and Facility Quality
PART III: Applications for Program Evaluation
7: Developing Harmonious, Resident-Directed, and Well-Organized Social Climates
7.1: A Model of the Determinants of Social Change
7.2: Determinants of Social Climate
7.3: Interventions to Improve Social Climate
8: Personal Control Policies, Social Climate, and Residents' Adaptation
8.1: The Influence of Personal Control Policies and Social Climate
8.2: Residents' Aggregate Functional Abilities as a Moderating Factor
8.3: The Impact of Policies and Social Climate on Staff Performance
8.4: Implications for Intervention and Evaluation
9: Residents' Engagement in Activities
9.1: Determinants of Activity Involvement
9.2: Individual Residents' Activity Levels
9.3: Determinants of Individual Residents' Activity Involvement
9.4: Residents' Functional Ability as a Moderating Factor
9.5: Toward a Theory of Activity Involvement
9.6: Implications for Theory and Practice
10: Coping with Environmental Change
10.1: Assessing the Impact of Building Design
10.2: A Person-Environment Congruence Model of Behavior Change
10.3: Evaluating the Impact of Programmatic Change
PART IV: Applications for Program Planning and Design
11: Resident Preferences and Design Guidelines
11.1: Preferences for Physical Design and Policies
11.2: Measuring Design and Policy Preferences
11.3: Preferences for Physical Features
11.4: Preferences for Policies and Services
11.5: Congruence Between Actual and Preferred Facilities
11.6: Implications for Assessment and Theory
12: Implications for Theory and Design
12.1: A Model of Resident Adaptation
12.2: Implications for Program Evaluation and Design
12.3: Future Directions