Research Paper

Processes for developing affordable and sustainable medium-density housing models for greyfield precincts
This project investigates a design-oriented, integrative development approach that responds to a timely opportunity in the greyfields of Australian cities: how to redevelop dispersed and ageing public housing properties in the middle suburbs.
Shane Murray, Nigel Bertram, Lee-Anne Khor, Deborah Rowe, Byron Meyer, Catherine Murphy, Peter Newton, Stephen Glackin, Tom Alves, Rob McGauran
2015
Themes:
Urban Planning, Public Housing

Relationships between perceived aspects of home and symptoms in a cohort aged 67- 70.
The importance of the home environment increases with age. Perceived aspects of home influence life satisfaction, perceived health and independence in daily activities and well-being among very old people. However, research on health and perceived aspects of home among senior citizens in earlier phases of the aging process is lacking.
Maria Haak, Maya Kyten, Henrik Ekstrom, Steven Schmidt, Vibeke Horstmann, Solve Elmstahl, Susanne Iwarsson
2015
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Health, Concept of 'Home'

Strategies for Aging in Place: The Experience of Language-Minority Seniors With Loss of Independence
For healthy and independent older adults, aging in place can be seen as identical to any other adult living at home. Little is known about how frail seniors, particularly those who speak a minority language, manage the challenges of aging in place.
Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard, Odette Gould, Caroline Gibbons
2015
Themes:
Ageing-in-Place, Indigenous Homelessness

Supply shortages and affordability outcomes in the private rental sector: short and longer term trends
This report found there was a shortage of 271 000 affordable and available rental dwellings for very-low-income households in 2011, an increase of 60 000 since 2006.
Kath Hulse, Margaret Reynolds, Wendy Stone, Judith Yates
2015
Themes:
Housing Affordability, Private Rental

The voices of mid-life women facing housing insecurity
Single, mid-life women in Australia have emerged as a group vulnerable to housing insecurity and having a high potential of homelessness in their old age (65+). Mid-life is used here to denote women aged between 40 and 65.
Andrea Sharam
2015
Themes:
Ageing Population, Older Women, Pathways into homelessness, Housing insecurity, Retirement

Housing Decisions of Older Australians
The growing longevity and ageing of Australia’s population, as well as other structural and demographic changes, elevate the policy imperative to understand what drives the housing decisions of older people and the consequences for their wellbeing. This study aims to explore the drivers of those decisions, as well as some of the barriers to better outcomes.
The Productivity Commission
2015
Themes:
Ageing Population, Policy, Housing in General

Seniors downsizing on their own terms: Overcoming planning, legal and policy impediments to the creation of alternative retirement communities
Terms such as ‘ageing in place’ and ‘downsizing’ have become ubiquitous in discourse about the accommodation choices of older people. The terms, while not mutually exclusive, are not necessarily symbiotic and mean different things to different people.
Kenny Annand, Wendy Lacey, Eileen Webb
2015
Themes:
Ageing Population, Downsizing, Policy, Retirement Housing

Key characteristics of age-friendly cities and communities: a review.

The structure of this paper is as follows: an overview of the literature review methodology; a summary of age-friendly models and frameworks; a discussion of the key findings of the ageing literature, with reference to specific ageing initiatives and interventions within the urban environment.
S Steels
2015
Themes:
Age-Friendly Cities, Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Policy

Muslims in Australia and their aged care needs: An exploratory study with special reference to South Australia
The Report “MUSLIMS IN AUSTRALIA AND THEIR AGED CARE NEEDS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA” was prepared for the Islamic Information Centre of South Australia (IICSA) as an important step toward making aged care in general, and residential care in particular, responsive to the needs of the Muslim community in South Australia.
Mahjabeen Ahmad, Shamsul Khan
2015
Themes:
CALD Communites, Aged Care

Chinese Demographics and Aging, Health, and Place
China faces the need for major reforms in healthcare capacity, coverage, affordability and access for rural populations, migrant workers, and an increasingly aging population. There is a need for more diversity in housing types, increased public infrastructure, and innovative social welfare programs for the rapidly growing aged population, who may no longer be able to depend on children or govern
Harvard Graduate School of Design
2015
Themes:
Ageing Population, Aged Care, Ageing-in-Place, Policy, Aged Pension

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