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Not enough homes being built for older people - new research
The number of people aged 85 and over will more than double in the UK over the next 25 years. With an ageing population will come additional pressures on services and resources – and one area of specific concern is housing. Recent research suggests the cost to the NHS from older people being poorly housed is over £600m a year.
Tom Archer, Ian Wilson, Stephen Green
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Future housing solutions

The Adequacy of the Age Pension in Australia: An assessment of pensioner living standards
This Australian report examines the adequacy of the Age Pension both qualitatively, through focus groups and town meetings, and quantitatively, through analysis of social survey data. Methodology included quantitative analysis provided by the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) survey which included 9,000 households and 25,000 individuals.
Warwick Smith, David Hetherington
2018
Themes:
Aged Pension, Policy

The Intersection Between Sustainability and Age-Friendly Development
This chapter explores the intersection between sustainable development and the age-friendly project in Portland by detailing a case study of factors that affected the planning and development of sustainable, affordable housing for older adults in Portland.
Alan DeLaTorre
2018
Themes:
Age-Friendly Cities, Ageing-in-Place, Policy, Community, Affordable Housing, CALD Communites

'It's shameful': Focus Ireland calls for urgent action to support elderly homeless people
FOCUS IRELAND HAS launched an online campaign calling for the government to take urgent action to ensure no one over the age of 65 is homeless. The latest figures from the Department of Housing show that there were 119 people over 65 years old living in emergency accommodation in February 2018, a 40% increase on the February 2016 figure of 85.
Hayley Halpin
2018
Themes:
Crisis Housing

'A collective denial': Why are France's elderly treated so badly?
France has a reputation for being one of the best places to grow old, in part due to its high quality of life, excellent health care and having one of the world’s longest life expectancies.
Evie Burrows-Taylor
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Aged Care, Ageing-in-Place, Co-housing

The Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities Looking back over the last decade, looking forward to the next
This report gives a global overview of the progress that cities and communities have made over the last decade towards becoming more age-friendly, through the lens of the WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Among the notable achievements, membership in the WHO Global Network has increased four-fold in the last two and a half years and more affiliate organizations are suppo
Alana Officer, Diane Wu
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Age-Friendly Cities, Community

A Novel Cohousing Project for Older Women and Implications for Loneliness
In this article, we describe a novel approach in older persons’ housing, a recently established cohousing development, ‘New Ground’ in London, UK. Cohousing is a form of grouped housing designed and managed by those who reside within it.
Helen Hopwood, Farhana Mann
2018
Themes:
Co-housing, Ageing Population, Older Women, Health

Housing an Ageing Australia: The Ideal of Security of Tenure and the Undermining Effect of Elder Abuse
This article considers the degree of legal security of tenure and ontological security in various forms of accommodation utilised by older people. In so doing, the article examines how elder abuse can dilute legal and ontological security and makes suggestions as to how existing real property laws could be utilised and amended to safeguard housing security for older people
Eileen Webb
2018
Themes:
Private Rental, Policy, Ageing Population, Elder Abuse

The Homelessness Monitor: England 2018
The homelessness monitor is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in England. It considers both the consequences of the post-2007 economic and housing market recession, and the subsequent recovery, and also the impact of policy changes.
Beth Watts, Glen Bramley, Hal Pawson, Jenny Wood, Steve Wilcox, Suzanne Fitzpatrick
2018
Themes:
Housing Affordability, Policy, Poverty & homelessness

Housing and Ageing: Linking strategy to future delivery for Scotland, Wales and England 2030
Our goal was to create a set of co-designed recommendations for the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments, which would identify specific priorities and recommendations for the housing and ageing agenda – as a driver to get housing ready for the increasing future generations of older people.
Scottish Universities Insight Institute
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Policy, Aged Care, Ageing-in-Place, Housing in General

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