Europe

Social Housing Allocation and Homelessness
This research provides an interesting insight into the different housing allocation mechanisms employed by social housing providers across the European Union.
Nicholas Pleace, Nóra Teller, Deborah Quilgars
2011
Themes:
Social Housing, Policy, Housing First, Private Rental

Sizing Up the Challenge Ahead: Future Demographic Trends and Long-term Care Costs
This chapter is from the 2011 OECD publication, Help Wanted?
OECD
2011
Themes:
Ageing Population, Aged Care, Ageing-in-Place, Policy

Ageing in Place in the European Union
Ageing in Place in the EU context tends to focus on the provision of support and services to older persons to enable them to remain in their own homes for as long as they can, and in environments that are enabling.
Elizabeth Mestheneos
2011
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Policy

Women and Homelessness
> Abstract_ There has been a relative paucity of European research on women’s homelessness since the European Observatory on Homelessness promoted the first overall study on the subject in 2001.
Isabel Baptista
2010
Themes:
Gender, Policy, Older Women

Routes out of Poverty and Isolation for Older Homeless People: Possible Models from Poland and the UK
Policies in many EU countries have sought to address the link between worklessness, reliance on state benefits and the attendant poverty that they inevitably bring. However, the focus has tended to be on the acquisition of skills and education amongst younger people.
Catherine Boswell
2010
Themes:
Rough Sleeping, Crisis Housing, Homelessness Prevention Services, Substance Abuse, Employment

Homelessness and Homeless Policies in Europe: Lessons from Research
This overview of research on homelessness in the EU draws largely on the work undertaken by the European Observatory on Homelessness since its formation in 1991, supplemented by secondary literature from other sources. There is considerable evidence on homelessness in Europe but our knowledge remains very uneven with a lack of data and understanding on some aspects of homelessness.
Volker Busch-Geertsema, William Edgar, Eoin O’Sullivan, Nicholas Pleace
2010
Themes:
Policy, Definition of 'at risk of homelessness', Homelessness Prevention Services, Pathways into homelessness, Pathways out of homelessness

The Limitations of Cost Analysis in Relation to Homelessness
The increasing focus on cost comparisons between services can lead to misleading conclusions about their ef fectiveness. Whilst cost compari sons can be a useful tool both for benchmarking services and as a means of advocating for services for unpopular groups, data can be difficult to collect and to interpret in a meaningful way.
Robert Aldridge
2008
Themes:
Disabilities, Rough Sleeping, Public Discourse

Importance of the Home Environment for Healthy Aging: Conceptual and Methodological Background of the European ENABLE–AGE Project
Currently in Europe as well as in the United States, an increasing proportion of very old people remain living in their homes despite declines in physical and mental health.
Susanne Iwarsson, Hans-Werner Wahl, Carita Nygren, Frank Oswald, Andrew Sixsmith, Judith Sixsmith, Zsuzsa Szeman, Signe Tomsone
2007
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Health, Policy

Inadequate Housing and Health: an overview
Abstract: For many years, the housing environment has been acknowledged as one of the main settings that affect human health. Living and housing conditions are the basis of many factors influencing residential health.
Xavier Bonnefoy
2007
Themes:
Housing in General, Health

Housing for the aging population
Based on the concept of ‘aging in place,’ design of houses in the past years are explored. Design features in the built environment become barriers for aging people with functional limitations. Initially, houses were designed according to the required needs of the user with the physical limitations.
Halime Demirkan
2007
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Concept of 'Home'

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