Grinnell Home: preservation and social need

Article Abstract:

The severely deteriorated Greek Revival mansion of 19th century businessman and legislator Joseph R. Grinnell has been transformed into congregate housing. Named the Joseph Grinnell Congregate Home, it is the first housing facility in New Bedford, MA, designed specifically for the city's frail and low-income elderly who do not need nursing home care, but who cannot manage to live entirely on their own. Raising funds for the restoration of the mansion was a complicated process because the project combined three goals. It sought to save a historic building, to provide housing for elderly individuals and to offer services that would enable these individuals to live in a home-like environment. As a result, the project is the first in the New England region to use a combination of low-income housing tax credits, Section 8 rental assistance and financing from the HOME program.

Housing, Design and construction, Remodeling and renovation, Assisted living facilities, Historic buildings, Frail elderly, New Bedford, Massachusetts

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Social exclusion

Article Abstract:

The International Labor Organization and the United Nations Development Program conducted a series of studies between 1993 and 1994 on the significance and effects of social exclusion on several newly industrialized, least developed, and socialist countries undergoing transition. Results showed a substantial depreciation of social inequalities, drastic changes in the number and quality of jobs, and greater division of labor markets among these different economies. Furthermore, social exclusion was generally observed to cause a sense of worthlessness and eventually result to the individual's resignation.

Social acceptance

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Behavioral experience and social inference: individual differences in aggressive experience and spontaneous versus deliberate trait inference

Article Abstract:

Spontaneous trait inferences reveal more individual differences in chronic behavioral experiences than deliberate inferences. In the spontaneous inference condition, hostile traits serve as more effective cues for aggressive subjects, while hostile and nonhostile cues are equally effective in subjects with low aggression. In the deliberate inference condition, hostile cues are a little more effective for subjects with low aggression, while both hostile and nonhostile cues are equally effective for aggressive subjects.

Psychological aspects, Aggressiveness (Psychology), Individual differences, Individual differences (Psychology), Inference

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