Ageing in Place?

Stories of older private renters in Melbourne. A short film based on interviews with three older people struggling to survive in the private rental market.

Listen to three older tenants from Housing for the Aged Action Group talk about their housing issues and the impact it has had on their lives and their health. Produced by Dr Peter Phibbs, University of Western Sydney. An InnerWestMedia production for the Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney.

Ageing in Place from HAAG on Vimeo.

A lack of security of tenure, rents that consume the aged pension and sub-standard housing are barriers to successful ageing-in-place. These issues also have severe impacts on the health and wellbeing of older people.

Older private renters pay more of their income in rent than any other age group or tenure type (AIHW 2008) and those living in housing poverty have more than doubled since 2004 from 52,000 to 112,000 FaHCSIA 2009)

This video can also be viewed in three separate installments, see the links below.
Section 1. Molly, Murray and Ken talk of their rental housing situations:

Section 2: Associate Professor Andrew Jones, Director, Housing Policy Research Policy, AHURI comments.

Section 3: Jeff Fiedler, Housing for the Aged Action Group, concludes the presentation.

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Assistance with converting DVD files for YouTube was provided by Ranesh in Perth and Madeleine, Melbourne.