Retirement Communities: Continuing Exploration to Meet Growing Social Demand

Abstract In business world, people always want to expedite the production of goods, so as to increase profits and accelerate capital turnover, which in turn will promote economic growth. The increase of social demand for consumer goods causes many companies prepare funds, taken from fund provider called factoring. Financial or fund provider is a business institution that deals with financing in the form of purchasing and taking over and handling short term receivables. This paper discusses the concept of factoring in the perspective of the economic Islamic law using hiwalah theory approach. In addition, this article explain the different concept of sharia and conventional factoring. Keywords: Factoring, Hiwalah, Islamic Economics.

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Perceived barriers and contributors to sense of purpose in life in retirement community residents

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x20001749 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Nathan A. Lewis ◽

Naomi Reesor ◽

Patrick L. Hill

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Purpose In Life ◽

Retirement Community ◽

Retirement Communities ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Contributing Factors ◽

Sense Of Purpose ◽

The Social ◽

Continuing Care Retirement Communities ◽

Retirement Facilities

Abstract Despite the growing use of retirement communities and ageing care facilities, little is known about how residing in retirement residences may impact aspects of older adult wellbeing. Living in these communities may hold particular influence on residents’ sense of purpose, if they feel limited in their opportunities for individual action, or could serve to promote purposefulness depending on the social connections available. The current study sought to explore contributing factors as well as barriers to purpose in older adults living in three continuing care retirement communities. Using brief semi-structured interviews, 18 older adults were asked to describe their purpose in life, community-related activities and any perceived challenges limiting their ability to pursue this purpose. Thematic analysis was used to examine themes common across interviews. Interviews presented a mixed picture of the nature of purposefulness in retirement facilities. Residents espoused several benefits of community living such as social and leisure opportunities, while also noting several obstacles to their purpose, including health concerns and the belief that purpose in life was not relevant for older adults. These findings provide insight into how older adults can derive a sense of purpose from activities within their retirement community and how facilities can better tailor programmes to promote purposefulness and support personally valued roles for residents.

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Older Adults as Citizen Scientists and Policy and Planning Voices in Higher Education

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1786 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 547-547

Author(s):

Lenard Kaye ◽

Sarah Burby

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Older Adult ◽

Academic Research ◽

Community Based Participatory Research ◽

Retirement Communities ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

University Policy ◽

Adult Participation ◽

Life Education ◽

Older Citizens

Abstract The University of Maine is embarking on achieving AFU status. In addition to maximizing older adult participation in all facets of campus life (education, recreation, culture, etc.), their presence in nontraditional sectors of university activity will be emphasized. Building on the principles of community-based, participatory research, focal points of UMaine’s AFU strategy will be to ensure that age-specific, engagement mechanisms are created and maintained that ensure older citizens play an influential role in guiding and interpreting academic research and development and curricula innovation across multiple professions and disciplines. Using a state-wide, older adult research registry, and co-design, community test-beds in partnership with continuing care retirement communities, older adults will serve as citizen scientists. Other empowerment strategies for maximizing elder voice include expanding the number of departments that incorporate life span perspectives in their mission statements and expanding the number of older adult advisory bodies that inform university policy and practice.

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‘We have become prisoners of our own age’: from a continuing care retirement community to a total institution in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak

Age and Ageing ◽

10.1093/ageing/afab013 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Liat Ayalon ◽

Sharon Avidor

Keyword(s):

Emotional Responses ◽

Retirement Community ◽

Retirement Communities ◽

Continuing Care ◽

Total Institution ◽

Continuing Care Retirement Communities ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

Total Institutions ◽

Design And Methods ◽

Depth Interviews

Abstract Background and objectives during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in Israel, people residing in continuing care retirement communities (CCRC) found themselves under strict instructions to self-isolate, imposed by the CCRC managements before, during and after the nationwide lockdown. The present study explored the personal experiences of CCRC residents during the lockdown. Research design and methods in-depth interviews were conducted with 24 CCRC residents from 13 different CCRCs. Authors performed a thematic analysis of interview transcripts, using constant comparisons and contrasts. Results three major themes were identified: (i) ‘Us vs. them: Others are worse off’. Older residents engaged in constant attempts to compare their situation to that of others. The overall message behind these downward comparisons was that the situation is not so bad, as others are in a worse predicament; (ii) ‘Us vs. them: Power imbalance’. This comparison emphasised the unbalanced power-relations between older adults and the staff and management in the setting and (iii) ‘We have become prisoners of our own age’. Interviewees described strong emotions of despair, depression and anger, which were intensified when the rest of society returned back to a new routine, whilst they were still under lockdown. Discussion and implications the measures imposed on residents by managements of CCRCs during the lockdown, and the emotional responses of distress among some of the residents, revealed that CCRCs have components of total institutions, not normally evident. This underscores the hidden emotional costs of the lockdown among those whose autonomy was compromised.

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An Empirical Research on the Relationship between Real Estate Prices and Inflation

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.55-57.1992 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 55-57 ◽

pp. 1992-1996

Author(s):

Tie Qun Li

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Stock Prices ◽

Test Analysis ◽

Social Demand ◽

The Real Estate ◽

Key Factor ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Labor Service ◽

Real Estate Prices ◽

The Relationship

The former researches referring to inflation and real estate prices concentrated mainly on the stock prices rather than the real estate prices. Owing to the enlarging ratio of real estate industry in national economy with each passing day, as well as the overheating real estate prices in recent years, the relationship between real estate prices and inflation is particularly vital to the monetary policy making for the monetary authorities. According to the test analysis of data from 2001 to 2009, it is found that real estate prices is Granger Cause of inflation while inflation is not the Granger Cause of real estate prices in this paper. Through the Effects of Wealth, Credit and Tobin, real estate prices drive the growth of social consumption and investments and expand the total social demand which possess an positive effect on inflation; nevertheless the rising of real estate prices causes the rising of currency for real estate purchasing, which, under the circumstance of that currency supply remains, will inevitably bring about the reduction of currency for other consumption and investments and restrain the total social demand which would mean a suppression of continuous rising of prices of other commodity and labor service. All these show that real estate also has a negative effect on inflation. The cancellations between the two effects make the long-term influence real estate bearing on inflation is not obvious. The experimental results indicate that when the price of real estate rises 1%, inflation only rises 0.058%. Consequently, a strict controlling of the amount of money issued is the key factor for keeping the over rapid rising of real estate prices from leading to inflation.

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