Designing with Downsizers: The next generation of 'downsizer homes' for an active third age

This report responds to the growing number of 'third-agers' whose future housing aspirations are not being met by either specialist retirement developers or mass-market housing projects. The available evidence suggests that many households would be keen to downsize in later life if there were attractive options in the right locations. The report has developed a working definition for 'downsizer homes' and proposed a series if co-designed typologies that respond to third agers' aspirations.