Vieillir en résidence privée pour aînés à Montréal : entre appropriation de l’espace résidentiel et adaptation aux changements
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Abstract
The market for private seniors' residences (RPAs) in Montreal is characterized by high demand. For the elderly, moving to this type of housing is a strategy for coping with various forms of vulnerability. The interaction between the person and his or her environment can be influenced by the latter. This environment can promote the inclusion, however it can also be disabling. With individual, economic and social changes affecting personal abilities and resources, the elderly person seeks, through this move, to reconstitute his or her zone of mastery, where he or she feels competent and in control of his or her environment. The architectural features of the residence should meet some of the health and safety needs of seniors, as they must conform to requirements to obtain a certificate of conformity and register as a private seniors' residence, but other design needs may be overlooked. In addition, the zoning regulations in the areas where these residences are located do not establish specific regulations for this type of accommodation. Then, the neighborhoods in which these residences are located are often changing, affecting seniors' living habits and their control over their environment. In this way, the environment can influence how the person interacts with it. It can promote inclusion, by taking into account the individual's abilities and responding to his or her needs, otherwise, it can contribute to the development of a process leading to exclusion. The aim of our research is to understand the contribution of this residential space to the person's adaptation to the changes and his or her sense of "home". We began by defining what onstitutes residential space, taking into consideration the three scales of the elderly person's environment: architectural, immediate to the residence and the neighborhood in which it is located. Using a mixed-methods approach, a survey was conducted to determine which architectural and urban attributes are important to the elderly in terms of their needs and expectations. Field observations were also carried out to assess the environment's response to seniors' needs. Through semi-structured interviews (n=31), we identified the factors behind this residential choice. We studied the strategies adopted by seniors to recreate a home after moving into seniors’ residence, and to avoid difficulties that arise with personal and environmental changes. The results revealed that security was required at both architectural and urban levels. In the residential area, needs are poorly met. Residences play a crucial role in the inclusion of seniors in their residential environment and in the creation of a sense of home. This role is reflected in the provision of an environment that enables autonomy, mobility and, consequently, social participation to be maintained as long as possible. However, this form of residential mobility is in favor of people who decide to move out at a very young age, around 65, but recreating home becomes difficult for people with loss of autonomy who can't take advantage of the quality/y of life provided by the RPA.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".