Ageing-in-Place
Opportunities and Challenges of Innovative Housing and/or Support Service Models in fostering Aging in Place for Older Adults: A Critical Review
This capstone project presents a critical synthesis of recent literature (2000 to 2013) focused on three types of innovative housing and/or service models and aging in place to address housing needs for older adults.
By comparative analysis of their differences and similarities, opportunities and challenges are identified for Villages, Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) and Cohous
2014
Adapting to the Challenges of an Ageing Population for Social Housing
The focus of government policy in the UK to date has been on a health care strategy for the elderly that projects more and more integrated social and health services provided in their own home rather than in institutions/hospitals.
2014
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Working towards an older persons homelessness prevention strategy for the Victorian Homelessness Action Plan Reform
Successfully evaluated after Stage 1 of the Victorian Government's Innovations Action Project, 'Home at Last' has continued to expand its
service into Stage 2.
2014
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For Future Living: Innovative Approaches to Joining Up Housing and Health
In exploring housing and health for older people, our research examined the following questions:
• What do older people expect from their housing and housing providers?
• What choices does the UK housing market offer older and vulnerable people?
• What can we learn from the international literature about housing for older people, and can so-called intentional community approaches offer innovative
2014
'Ageing in Place' in Europe: A multidimensional approach to independent living later in life
This research focuses on the independent living of old people (Ageing in Place) considering it as a process of adaption between older individuals and their living environment in which the goal is to remain at home, despite the possible deterioration of their cognitive functions.
The main objective of the work is to explore how the adaption process works, its characteristics, existing types and th
2014
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The Next Housing Crisis: Aging Americans’ Homes
The US is facing a lack of affordable, physically-accessible and well-located homes for America’s aging population — especially those with low incomes.
2014
Downsizing amongst older Australians
The context of this research is the ageing population in Australia and its implications for housing and urban development. Ageing in place is a key policy response to population ageing, but this begs the question: ageing in what kind of place?
2014
Voices on Relocation and Aging in Place in Very Old Age—A Complex and Ambivalent Matter
This cross-national qualitative study explores how very old people reflect upon relocation and aging in place.
2013
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Nursing for the older people in Japan
The Japanese government is switching its focus in care for the aged from facilities to local communities.
2013
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Ageing in the right place: What works across People, Place and Time?
This presentation looks at the concept and the reality of 'ageing in place' in Australia and Canada.
Ageing in place has become a focal concept by policy makers and researchers to create communities that facilitate the preference by older adults to remain in their homes and communities as long as possible.
2013
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