ADVANCING POSITIVE SOCIAL CONNECTIONS FOR OLDER ADULTS IN SUBSIDIZED HOUSING: A HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN APPROACH
Sheena Pubien, Becky Slogeris, Elizabeth Bazurto, Kennedy McDaniel, Vilde Ulset, Carl Latkin, Cynthia Boyd, Thomas Cudjoe · 2023
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Sheena Pubien and co-authors used, in a 2023 project, human-centered design to fight loneliness among older tenants of subsidized housing. Social isolation harms body and mind, and communal living does not by itself cure it. The team worked inside two Baltimore housing communities for five months.
Over 50 residents, service coordinators, and managers joined listening and brainstorm sessions. Their talk surfaced six themes: feeling excluded, weak community ties, hard moves into shared living, shifting building rules, and worries about the physical space. From those themes the group built responses, from welcome materials for new tenants to cultural inclusion events and better engagement routines. The approach treats residents as designers of their own social world. It offers a template other housing providers could copy.
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| CREATOR | Sheena Pubien, Becky Slogeris, Elizabeth Bazurto, Kennedy McDaniel, Vilde Ulset, Carl Latkin, Cynthia Boyd, Thomas Cudjoe |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |