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Innovations in Senior Housing: The Complete Guide to Cohousing
An unprecedented demographic shift looms on Canada’s horizon: an aging population means seniors will soon make up a large proportion of the nation’s population – a change that will require many services and institutions to adapt and respond.
2016
What are the health, social and economic benefits of providing public housing and support to formerly homeless people?
This report finds that supporting formerly homeless people and those at risk of homelessness into public housing in Western Australia reduces their use of health services as well as the frequency with which they do so.
2016
Home to Stay: Creating Quality Supportive Housing for Aging Tenants
Very little is known about the homeless aging population, referred to as the “invisible population” and even less is known about those aging in place within supportive housing and older/elderly adults in institutions who, if provided with long-term supportive services, would be able to return to the community.
2016
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Pathways to Homelessness Among Older Homeless Adults: Results from the HOPE HOME Study
Little is known about pathways to homelessness among older adults. We identified life course experiences associated with earlier versus later onset of homelessness in older homeless adults and examined current health and functional status by age at first homelessness. We interviewed 350 homeless adults, aged 50 and older, recruited via population-based sampling.
2016
Is Cohousing the Best Solution to Aging Well?
The concept of cohousing as a housing choice for older people for its benefits of community & healthy ageing.
2016
Where do record rental prices leave low-income earners?
Average house rents in metropolitan Melbourne have increased by 5.3%, with apartment rents growing by 2.8%, over the last three months. A lack of affordable rental properties is a problem in Sydney too.
2016
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Paying the Price: Why so many older women are at risk of homelessness
They've worked or been caretakers (or both) their whole lives, but they are the fastest growing homeless demographic in Australia—thanks to a lifetime of gender discrimination.
2016
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Ageing in South Australia 2016
This report examines the attitudes, expectations and strategies of agencies working in aged care in South Australia in 2016.
2016
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Want to age well? Fix the housing system
We need urgent action from government, business and the not-for-profit sector on the financing and supply of more affordable and social housing for older people.
2016
Improving with age? How city design is adapting to older populations
By 2050, there will be more over-65s than children under 15. The number of people over 100 will increase by 1,000%. And as by then 70% of the world’s population will likely live in cites, this will present huge challenges, and cities will need to adapt.
An ageing population is not inherently a bad thing: it reflects improved health and rising life expectancies.
2016
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."