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The Needs and Resources of Older People
This quantitative report uses existing data to examine the needs of people over 65, including expenditure, health, social networks, housing and neighbourhoods and income. It investigates how patterns of resource use change over time, both for individual older people as they move through later life and for different generations of older people.
Sue Middleton, Ruth Hancock, Karen Kellard, Jacqueline Beckhelling, Viet-Hai Phung, Kim Perren
2007
Themes:
Ageing Population, Age Specific Housing, Health, Community

Rental housing provision for lower- income older Australians
A new policy approach is required to meet the anticipated increase in demand for affordable rental housing for lower-income older Australians during the next two decades. A projected increase of 115% from 2001-2026 in the number of lower-income people aged 65 and over living in rental households far exceeds the supply capacity of the social housing system.
Martin Bell, Cheryl Tilse, George Earl
2007
Themes:
Ageing Population, Public Housing, Social Housing

Intergenerational Coresidence of Older Adults in Japan: Conditions for Cultural Plasticity
This study investigated individual-level conditions and prefecture-level contextual factors that enable and/or restrict intergenerational coresidence arrangements between older parents and adult children. Whereas the traditional pattern of coresidence was primarily a value-driven arrangement, nontraditional coresidence was both a value-driven and a need-driven arrangement for older parents with l
Emiko Takagi, Merril Silverstein, Eileen Crimmins
2007
Themes:
Aged Care, Ageing Population, Co-housing

Polarity or Integration? Towards a Fuller Understanding of Home and Homelessness
INTRODUCTION There has been an increasing focus on the importance of the personal, social, and cultural variation and diversity in homelessness debates. Researchers are demonstrating a growing awareness of the complexity of homelessness through an emphasis on sub-groups and contexts.
Jeanne Moore
2007
Themes:
Concept of 'Home'

Global Age-friendly Cities: A Guide
Population ageing and urbanization are two global trends that comprise major forces shaping the 21st century. At the same time as cities are growing, their share of residents aged 60+ is increasing. Informed by WHO’s approach to active ageing, the purpose of this Guide is to engage cities to become more age-friendly.
World Health Organisation
2007
Themes:
Age-Friendly Cities

The World Health Organization Age-Friendly Cities Project in Portland, Oregon, USA
In 2006, researchers at the Institute on Aging in the School of Community Health at Portland State University were invited to collaborate with the World Health Organization on its “Age-Friendly Cities Project.” This project was designed to identify indicators of an age-friendly city based on the views of older adults, informal caregivers, and service providers.
Margaret Neal, Alan DeLaTorre
2007
Themes:
Age-Friendly Cities, Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Community, Policy

A Comparative Study of Homelessness in the United Kingdom and Japan
This article describes homelessness in Japan, based on a survey of rough sleepers conducted in Nagoya with some additional demographic data collected in Osaka, and compares it to the situation in the United Kingdom, as documented in a survey of rough sleepers throughout England.
Yoshihiro Okamoto
2007
Themes:
Rough Sleeping, Policy, Older Men, Poverty & homelessness

Housing and Social Policy in Malaysia: Provision for the Elderly

Malaysia was categorized as an ageing nation when the elderly population reached 7.2% (1.8 million) by 2005. In a society where aging is progressing, and where even among elderly people there is an increasingly larger class of older senior citizens, the increasing number of elderly people requiring appropriate housing and personal care will be an even greater issue of importance.
Noralfishah Sulaiman, David Baldry, Les Ruddock
2007
Themes:
Ageing Population, Policy, Age Specific Housing

CoHousing for Stages of an Aging Britain
The use of diverse types of common interest/intentional communities has burgeoned over the past quarter century. This paper will examine aspects of the particular legal environment for a nascent but growing CoHousing movement within the UK.
Susan Scott Hunt
2007
Themes:
Co-housing, Ageing Population, Policy, Older Women

Checklist of Essential Features of Age-friendly Cities

This checklist of essential age-friendly city features is based on the results of the WHO Global Age-Friendly Cities project consultation in 33 cities in 22 countries. Th e checklist is a tool for a city’s self-assessment and a map for charting progress. For the checklist to be effective, older people must be involved as full partners.
World Health Organisation
2007
Themes:
Age-Friendly Cities

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