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A better fit? Creating housing choices for an ageing population
This report aims to:
Set out the evidence about older people’s housing at present: where older people are living, their aspirations and their attitudes about housing, particularly their attitudes to downsizing.
Explore the social and economic benefits associated with providing more housing for older people.
Make the case for increasing the supply of housing for older people and recommend policy
2012
Homelessness and older Australians: scoping the issues
This report is written in the context of the Australian Government’s long-term goals of halving overall homelessness and offering supported accommodation to all rough sleepers who need assistance by 2020. It focuses on the implications of these goals for one specific demographic group, older Australians.
2012
Housing as a Platform for Improving Outcomes for Older Renters
This paper focuses on low-income older renters and how housing can provide a platform for supporting their independence and well-being.The paper:
- provides context for the important role of housing and neighborhoods in supporting independence for older Americans generally and low-income older renters in particular
-presents a conceptual framework for the pathways between the housing and servic
2012
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Housing an ageing population: lessons from North America
Research has shown that the preference for the vast majority of people is to remain living in their own homes as independently as possible as they age. I was keen to discover how ageing in place is facilitated in the USA and Canada as well as learn about the housing options for those who wish/need to move.
2012
Environmental Sustainable Initiatives Clarence Village Independent Living Units
Clarence Village Limited responded to NSW and Federal Government incentive programs to invest in grid connect 1.5KW solar energy systems on each of its 73 Independent Living Units. Each of the 73 residents of Clarence Village voluntarily joined with the company to make the Village the first among it’s peers on the North Coast to become a Green Village.
2012
Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Communities
On the political and policy front, interest has increased in making communities more “age-friendly”, an ongoing trend since the World Health Organization launched its global Age-Friendly Cities project. We conceptualize age-friendly communities by building on the WHO framework and applying an ecological perspective.
2011
Denmark Age Friendly Community Study Final Report
In 2006 the World Health Organisation convened a conference, attended by delegates from 33 cities in 22 countries around the world, to assess and determine the key elements of a community which supports healthy and active ageing.
This resulted in the publication of 'Global Age-friendly Cities: A Guide'.
2011
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The Nordic Model: evolutions in care and space for the dependant ageing in Sweden with some relevance to Denmark and Norway
During the 20th century, the Nordic countries, Denmark with Faroe Islands and Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, have realized five different but similar-looking welfare states, in which social services are distributed in an egalitarian and uniform way.
This paper focuses on eldercare and architecture intended to be used for eldercare.
2011
Ageing out of place? The impact of gender and location on older Victorians in homelessness: A pilot study.
It is widely acknowledged that Australia has a growing ageing population. The growing housing affordability problem is also widel y recognised. Declining rates of home ownership and a projected increase in older people in private rental are also well documented. The numbers of older people vulnerable to homelessness will increase. This has implications for the homelessness services system.
2011
No home at the end of the Road? A survey of single women over 40 years of age who do not believe they will own their housing outright at retirement
Single, older women in Australia have emerged as a group vulnerable to housing insecurity and as being in danger of homelessness in their old age.
2011
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."