Adams, D., Coyne, A., Kirby, M., Lucaccini, L. Marti, F., McNulty, R., Muscat, E., Wachtel, S., & Walters, M. (May 1, 2007). Enterprise Housing for San Francisco, the Future of Home-based Businesses. Asian Neighborhood Design and USF School of Business and Management. San Francisco. Retrieved 1/27/08: http://www.andnet.org.

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by Dr. Eugene Muscat

This questionnaire was prepared for the Winter-Spring 2008 issue of the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal in an article on Enterprise Housing, a Vital Economic Option for Caregivers.

1. Do you provide cargiving services for one of the following:
(check all that apply)
__ parent
__ sibling
__ relative
__ neighbor
__ paid client
__ Other describe) __________________________________________

2. Where do you provide the cargiving services:
(check all that apply)
__ your home – parent lives with you
__ your home
__ your parents home – near
__ your parents home – more that 1 mile away
__ neighbor’s home
__ paid client’s home – near
__ paid client’s home – more than 1 mile away
__ Other describe) __________________________________________

3. Describe the design (layout, quantity and quality of space) of the
residence in which the caregiving takes place:
(check all that apply)
__ Very appropriate for the caregiving activity
__ Somewhat appropriate for the caregiving activity
__ No effect on the caregiving activity
__ Minor obstacles to the caregiving activity
__ Major obstacles to the caregiving activity
__ (Comments) __________________________________________

4. What effect does the cost of housing options have on your ability to
provide caregiving (check all that apply)
__ Housing costs are a major obstacle to providing caregiving
__ Housing costs are a minor obstacle to providing caregiving
__ Housing costs have no effect on my caregiving activity
__ Some obstacles to the caregiving activity
__ (Comments) __________________________________________


5. What features would you recommend in housing design that would
support your ability to provide caregiving services; (check all that
apply)
__ Build housing on a single level
__ Build housing with handicapped access
__ Build housing with elevator access
__ Build housing close to public transit
__ Build housing close to free parking
__ Build housing close to fee parking
__ Build housing close to food service options
__ Build housing close to daycare options
__ Build housing that includes high-speed connectivity
__ Build housing that includes a shared recption area
__ Build housing that includes a commercial kitchen
__ Build housing that includes a shared storage area
__ Build housing that includes a shared private office area
__ Build housing that includes (other/describe)
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__ Build housing that includes (other/describe)
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__ Build housing that includes (other/describe)
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__ Build housing that includes (other/describe)
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__ (Comments)
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General comments on the challenges of providing caregiving in a
residence:

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Source: Eugene Muscat, Professor of Management
University of San Francisco
School of Business and Management
415-422-2514
Muscat@usfca.edu
Date: October 24, 2007

This exercise was prepared for a 2008 California Counseling Association Conference workshop co-facilitated by Sue Aiken and Dr. Sally Gelardin on Do you Live to Work or Work to Live? Create a Satisfying Live-Work Environment – NOW!

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Description
Do you live to work or work to live? Can you do both simultaneously and enjoy the process? Learn about the development of live/work and work/live environments in both urban and rural areas. Participate in counseling activities that support you and your clients in finding a satisfying living and working situation now or in the future.

Goal
Provide interactive session leading to greater awareness of holistic and dynamic relationship between how we live and how we work and the choices that are available.

Objectives

Clarify importance of knowing one’s own needs or values around “balance” between work and how we live

Provide exercises to use with clients for the live-work discussion

Create interview questions to use with clients to help focus on what can be done now to create a satisfying living and working environment

Resources
Official Guide to the City of Oakland Live/Work Building Code: Live/Work in Plan English. Retrieved 7/22/07: http://www.live-work.com/plainenglish/types/differences.html .
Thomas Dolan Architecture. Retrieved 7/22/07: http://www.live-work.com/revised/lwi/
Rebholz, J. , Multi-Housing News. Greenbuild 2006 post-show report. Retrieved 722/07: http://www.designbuildbusiness.com/publication/article.jsp?id=251&pubId=1.

Moving the LWPS data on the live site can be accomplished via an SSH or telnet connection to the maroa.pair.com web server with these two commands:


mysqldump -h -u lifework -p > data.sql
mysql -h -u lifework -p < data.sql