Ageing Population

ALONE call for greater housing options for older people as the Land Development Agency is launched
ALONE, the charity that supports older people to age at home, has welcomed yesterday’s launch of the state-sponsored Land Development Agency (LDA), but is urging that housing options for older people are carefully considered. Following the announcement to create 150,000 new homes over the next 20 years and provide long-term stability in the housing market, ALONE is calling on the LDA to develop a
ALONE Ireland
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Policy, Age Specific Housing

Global Living - Student, Senior Housing & Multifamily Occupier Demands

This report is about demand for living from different generations. We have focused primarily on two: the young and the elderly. They are shaping demand for some of the industry’s fastest growing asset classes. The market is now responding to under-served occupier groups by offering new and hybrid models that challenge conventional asset classes.
Savills World Research
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Future housing solutions, Housing Affordability, Co-housing

How has homelessness changed between 2011-2016?
This is the first of three AHURI Briefs that examines Census data to understand how homelessness is changing in Australia.
Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Housing insecurity, Older Women

The Village Movement: A Sustainable Model for Aging in Community
In the US, the Village model is gaining national attention as an affordable option for seniors who want to age-in- place. Villages are not-for-profit membership organizations offering comprehensive support and social engagement to seniors wanting to maintain independence. Villages are locally developed (often initiated within neighborhoods), self-governing, and self-supporting.
Elizabeth Backus, Natalie Galucia
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Future housing solutions, The Village Model

Housing America's Older Adults - 2018: A Supplement to the State of the Nation Report
More than half of US households are now headed by someone at least 50 years of age. These 65 million older households are highly diverse in their living situations, financial resources, health and functional abilities, and life stages, and thus require different types of housing to meet their needs and preferences.
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Affordable Housing, Age Specific Housing, Health, Policy

Shared Housing Arrangements in Germany—An Equitable Alternative to Long Term Care Services beyond Homes and Institutions?
Germany has experienced a growing interest and investment in innovative models of aged care that can provide more choice and flexibility to beneficiaries, while reducing the need for costly institutionalization. One model that has gained special attention is shared housing arrangements, in which a limited number of six to eight people in need of care rent private rooms in ordinary apartment build
Lorraine Doetter, Achim Schmid
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Co-housing, Health, Policy, Aged Care

Tenure insecurity and exclusion: older people in New Zealand's rental market
Declining home ownership among older people throws a spotlight on tenure insecurity. Almost 97,000 people aged 65 and older live in rental accommodation now, and this is expected to rise rapidly as younger renters reach retirement. Older tenants are potentially marginalised in a highly competitive rental market with few provisions relating to tenure security.
Bev James, Nina Saville-Smith
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Policy, Private Rental, Rental Stress

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

ODESSA - Optimising Care Delivery Models to Support Ageing in Place
ODESSA is a three-year project with the aim of finding new and innovative ways of adapting a person’s home so that they can live independently for longer and avoid going into residential care, as well as making it easier for them to access public services such as health and social services.
Karim Hadjri, Zan Yang, Marie-Eve Joël
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Health, Aged Care

Older People in a Long-term Regeneration Neighbourhood. An Exploratory Panel Study of Ageing in Place in Hoogvliet, Rotterdam
A precondition for ‘ageing in place’ is that older people perceive their neighbourhoods as familiar and safe places. In the Netherlands, manyneighbourhoods with an ageing population have been subject to urban restructuring policies.
Reinout Kleinhans, Lex Veldboer, Maarten van Ham, Sylvia Jansen
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Health, Policy, Lifetime Neighbourhoods, Community

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