With the largest U.S. generation in the midst of retirement, the Baby Boomer cohort is vastly changing the senior housing landscape. As the housing market gradually improves and the development of senior housing chases the increasing demand, Baby Boomers are a highly selective cohort with more buying and spending power than their predecessors, are healthier and more active, and are demanding an unconventional modification of alternative senior housing. The “traditional” senior community is outdated and no longer seen as a viable choice for retirement, and new and innovated models have surpassed the old-fashioned establishments. Among the innovative senior community models, the Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) combines a variety of unique residential options and comprehensive services that meet the needs of new and active retirees and aging seniors. Focusing on the Baby Boomer cohort in conjunction with a modified CCRC model, this project examines the current demographic and housing landscape for Baby Boomers and seniors, as well as assesses trending planning techniques and design elements to formulate an ideal senior living prototype for the 234 acre Sinclair Ranch in Chinese Camp, California. In culmination of research, academic literature review, survey analysis, and case study review, key trending planning and design elements have emerged to develop a state-of-the-art CCRC intended to meet market demands and desires of a growing and highly selective senior cohort. Thus, this project concludes with a design Draft Plan for the Sinclair Ranch that captures both the characteristics of an innovative CCRC and the emergent desires stemming from the shifting senior landscape. With key design recommendations and proposed community features, the draft plan is intended to outline and guide the vision of the proposed development for the Sinclair Ranch CCRC.

According to the regulations contained in the Social Services Act (SFS 2001:453), Swedish social services have a legal responsibility to provide support, care, and treatment for individuals with substance use problems.  This law mandate those who are responsible to provide treatment to motivate drug users to actively seek treatment on a voluntary basis, ensuring an end to their dependence on drugs. Studies have shown that although the treatment system largely focuses on promoting abstinence, about two-thirds of client’s relapse into substance use within one year after completing treatment. This dissertation focuses broadly on clients who repeatedly enter and use treatment for substance use disorders in the Swedish addiction treatment system. The aim of this thesis is to examine and identify the population groups who are repeated treatment users of the Swedish treatment system for substance use disorder, including both the voluntary treatment and compulsory care. This thesis was based on three national level databases. The results showed that clients with a higher degree of problems and problems in different areas of life also had an increased risk of having treatment for substance use disorder repeatedly. Clients who were older, men, reported more years of polydrug and alcohol use to intoxication, reported more compulsory care episodes for substance use, had ever been charged with crime, had ever been in inpatient mental health treatment, and had a higher ASI mental health symptom composite score, were significantly more likely to report more voluntary addiction treatment episodes. The strongest significant association with the number of treatment episodes was the number of compulsory treatment episodes for alcohol and drugs. Individuals who experienced prior compulsory care including mandatory treatment through LVU (law (1990:52)), been in prison, and had children mandated to out-of-home care, were more likely to have two or more entries in the compulsory care system for substance use disorder. In addition, this analysis showed that 59% of clients mandated to compulsory care dropped-out during their compulsory care episode, and that younger clients were significantly more likely to drop-out. Those who drop-out were significantly more likely to experience negative outcomes, i.e. additional sentence to compulsory care and higher risk of mortality.  A hierarchal logistic regression model also identified that individuals with riskier childhood conditions were more likely to have had repeated entries to compulsory care for substance use disorder. The indirect effects showed that a family history of substance use disorder and psychiatric problems are both associated with higher probability of institutional care as a child i.e. LVU, and that in turn, mandated childhood institutional care is related to repeated compulsory care intakes as an adult. Individuals who use treatment for substance use disorder repeatedly have a higher degree of problems i.e. an exposed and problematic group of individuals characterized by problem in several different areas of life. Growing up in a home environment with unfavorable conditions, mandated care before the age of 18 (LVU), compulsory care for substance use disorder as an adult, children taken into out-of-home care, and crime are the factors that are primarily associated with repeated treatment for substance use. A change in the view of treatment for clients in need of repeated use of treatment seems important, and access to adapted continuous care efforts are crucial to counteract the risk of relapse after a treatment episode of voluntary or compulsory care. Further, it seems important to motivate the client to complete the compulsory care without any deviation, since this seems to have positive effects on their substance use disorder.

Este estudo qualiquantitativo teve por objetivo geral analisar a conformação da rede de serviços de saúde que fazem atenção à saúde da gestante em Uberaba-MG. Teve como suporte teórico as categorias rede, integralidade e poder. Foi realizado estudo de caso tomando por referência os serviços de atenção básica de um Distrito Sanitário, sendo os dados de fontes primárias obtidos por entrevistas semi-estruturadas de trabalhadores de unidades de saúde de diferentes níveis de densidade tecnológica e de gestantes, e realização de grupo de discussão com gestantes. As fontes secundárias foram representadas por documentos oficiais e informações de bancos de dados das três esferas de governo. Os dados quantitativos foram analisados considerando sua distribuição de freqüência, e o material empírico das entrevistas e do grupo de discussão foi submetido à análise temática. Na análise documental identificamos que a política de atenção à gestante tem acontecido principalmente pela indução do financiamento, ou pela necessidade de superação de situações emergenciais. Identificamos, entretanto, tentativas de articulação de serviços e de atores, trabalhadores e usuários nos distintos espaços de construção desta política. Os dados e as informações de bancos de dados municipais e nacionais apontam para baixa cobertura e qualificação da assistência pré-natal de baixo e alto risco, por deficiência de infra-estrutura e de profissionais qualificados para atenção básica e especializada, déficit de leitos obstétricos e de UTI. O impacto na atenção pode ser identificado a partir da alta freqüência de internações por complicação obstétrica e aborto, alta incidência de sífilis congênita e aumento mortalidade infantil, com óbitos concentrados no período perinatal. Do material empírico analisado a partir da análise temática emergiu o tema: O modelo operado na rede de serviços que fazem atenção à gestante no município, que foi recortado em quatro subtemas: oferta de ações de saúde e a atenção às necessidades das gestantes; o encontro entre o trabalhador de saúde e a gestante no processo de atenção; espaços de atenção à saúde como espaços de aprendizagem; gestão da rede-a relação entre os serviços de saúde que fazem atenção à gestante no município. A articulação e interpenetração destes subtemas revelam dificuldade de acesso da gestante aos serviços, organização e planejamento centrados na necessidade dos serviços e instituições de ensino, fragmentação da rede e dos processos de trabalho em cada um dos serviços, e relação conflituosa entre oferta de serviços e demanda das gestantes; dificuldade de articulação serviço-ensino para educação na saúde. Por outro lado, também identificamos alguns espaços aonde acontecem práticas mais comprometidas com a atenção integral à gestante, e abertura de linhas de fuga para garantir atendimento. / The objective of this quantitative and qualitative study was to analyze the structure and operation of the health services network for pregnant women in Uberaba - MG. The theoretical categories that support the study are: network, integrality and power. A case study was carried out, using as a reference a primary care service of one Sanitary District. The primary sources data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with health care unit workers of different technological densities and with pregnant patients, in discussion groups. Secondary sources data were obtained through official documents and data base of three governmental areas. The quantitative data were analyzed taking into account its frequency distribution, and the empirical material from the interviews and group discussions were submitted to a thematic analysis. In the documental analysis, we identified that care police for pregnant women has been guided by the financial availability or the prevailing of emergency needs. We identified, however, joint attempts of the services and health actors, health workers and users in constructing the police. The data and the information from municipal and national data base point to poor coverage and qualification of both low and high risk pre-natal care because of a deficiency in infrastructure and qualified care professionals, as well as a lack of obstetric and ICU beds. The health attention impact can be seen in the great number of internments for obstetric complications and abortion, the high incidence of congenital syphilis and a rise in infant mortality, with deaths concentrated in the peri-natal period. The thematic analysis of the empirical material provided a theme: The operating model in the attention service network for pregnant women in the municipal district, which was divided into four sub-themes: health actions offered and attention to the pregnant women needs; the health care worker and the pregnant woman meeting during the care process; health attention place as a learning place; network management-the relation among services that attend the pregnant women in the municipal district. The articulation and intersection of these sub-themes reveal access difficulty of the pregnant patient, organization and planning centered in the service and learning institutions needs, network and work process fragmentation in each of the services, conflict relationship between services offer and pregnant women demands and difficulty in service-learning institutions articulation for health education. On the other hand, we identified some more committed practices with an integral care of the pregnant women and the opening of escape routes from the system in order to guarantee care.

Este estudo qualiquantitativo teve por objetivo geral analisar a conformação da rede de serviços de saúde que fazem atenção à saúde da gestante em Uberaba-MG. Teve como suporte teórico as categorias rede, integralidade e poder. Foi realizado estudo de caso tomando por referência os serviços de atenção básica de um Distrito Sanitário, sendo os dados de fontes primárias obtidos por entrevistas semi-estruturadas de trabalhadores de unidades de saúde de diferentes níveis de densidade tecnológica e de gestantes, e realização de grupo de discussão com gestantes. As fontes secundárias foram representadas por documentos oficiais e informações de bancos de dados das três esferas de governo. Os dados quantitativos foram analisados considerando sua distribuição de freqüência, e o material empírico das entrevistas e do grupo de discussão foi submetido à análise temática. Na análise documental identificamos que a política de atenção à gestante tem acontecido principalmente pela indução do financiamento, ou pela necessidade de superação de situações emergenciais. Identificamos, entretanto, tentativas de articulação de serviços e de atores, trabalhadores e usuários nos distintos espaços de construção desta política. Os dados e as informações de bancos de dados municipais e nacionais apontam para baixa cobertura e qualificação da assistência pré-natal de baixo e alto risco, por deficiência de infra-estrutura e de profissionais qualificados para atenção básica e especializada, déficit de leitos obstétricos e de UTI. O impacto na atenção pode ser identificado a partir da alta freqüência de internações por complicação obstétrica e aborto, alta incidência de sífilis congênita e aumento mortalidade infantil, com óbitos concentrados no período perinatal. Do material empírico analisado a partir da análise temática emergiu o tema: O modelo operado na rede de serviços que fazem atenção à gestante no município, que foi recortado em quatro subtemas: oferta de ações de saúde e a atenção às necessidades das gestantes; o encontro entre o trabalhador de saúde e a gestante no processo de atenção; espaços de atenção à saúde como espaços de aprendizagem; gestão da rede-a relação entre os serviços de saúde que fazem atenção à gestante no município. A articulação e interpenetração destes subtemas revelam dificuldade de acesso da gestante aos serviços, organização e planejamento centrados na necessidade dos serviços e instituições de ensino, fragmentação da rede e dos processos de trabalho em cada um dos serviços, e relação conflituosa entre oferta de serviços e demanda das gestantes; dificuldade de articulação serviço-ensino para educação na saúde. Por outro lado, também identificamos alguns espaços aonde acontecem práticas mais comprometidas com a atenção integral à gestante, e abertura de linhas de fuga para garantir atendimento. / The objective of this quantitative and qualitative study was to analyze the structure and operation of the health services network for pregnant women in Uberaba - MG. The theoretical categories that support the study are: network, integrality and power. A case study was carried out, using as a reference a primary care service of one Sanitary District. The primary sources data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with health care unit workers of different technological densities and with pregnant patients, in discussion groups. Secondary sources data were obtained through official documents and data base of three governmental areas. The quantitative data were analyzed taking into account its frequency distribution, and the empirical material from the interviews and group discussions were submitted to a thematic analysis. In the documental analysis, we identified that care police for pregnant women has been guided by the financial availability or the prevailing of emergency needs. We identified, however, joint attempts of the services and health actors, health workers and users in constructing the police. The data and the information from municipal and national data base point to poor coverage and qualification of both low and high risk pre-natal care because of a deficiency in infrastructure and qualified care professionals, as well as a lack of obstetric and ICU beds. The health attention impact can be seen in the great number of internments for obstetric complications and abortion, the high incidence of congenital syphilis and a rise in infant mortality, with deaths concentrated in the peri-natal period. The thematic analysis of the empirical material provided a theme: The operating model in the attention service network for pregnant women in the municipal district, which was divided into four sub-themes: health actions offered and attention to the pregnant women needs; the health care worker and the pregnant woman meeting during the care process; health attention place as a learning place; network management-the relation among services that attend the pregnant women in the municipal district. The articulation and intersection of these sub-themes reveal access difficulty of the pregnant patient, organization and planning centered in the service and learning institutions needs, network and work process fragmentation in each of the services, conflict relationship between services offer and pregnant women demands and difficulty in service-learning institutions articulation for health education. On the other hand, we identified some more committed practices with an integral care of the pregnant women and the opening of escape routes from the system in order to guarantee care.