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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.
2011
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Older Homeless Adults: Can We Do More?
The average age of individuals in the US experiencing homelessness is rising. Between the early 1990s and 2003, the proportion of homeless adults aged 50 and older increased from 11% to nearly one-third. This trend continues.
Homelessness is associated with poor access to health care and high rates of Emergency Department visits and inpatient hospitalizations, and high rates of early mortality.
2011
Social Spaces Rural Places: Ageing-in-Place in Rural South Australia
This thesis argues that place, space and availability of social support are important variables for how older people successfully age-in-place. It explores place attachment, community connectedness and the social networks of people aged 70+ living independently in small rural communities in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia.
2011
Ageing and Quality of Life - New Responses from the Real Estate Sector in Portugal
Europe in the 21st century will have to cater to the needs of an elderly population in transformation. Portugal is also part of this process.
2011
The Utilization of Home Care by the Elderly in Brazil's Primary Health Care System
The aging of the population represents a challenge to governments around the world, which are faced with the task of designing and implementing national strategies for elderly care, including improving primary health care through home health care systems and social networks.
2011
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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.
2010
A Better Place: Victorian Homelessness 2020 Strategy
Homelessness is caused by a wide range of social and economic issues such as: poverty, unemployment, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, mental health issues, poor education, and a lack of connection to family, friends and the broader community.
To prevent and reduce homelessness those broader social
and economic issues must be addressed.
2010
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The New Homelessness Revisited
The ‘new homelessness’ has drawn sustained attention from scholars over the past three decades. Definitional inconsistencies and data limitations rendered early work during this period largely speculative in nature. Thanks to conceptual, theoretical, and methodological progress, however, the research literature now provides a fuller understanding of homelessness.
2010
Older women and homelessness, a literature review
The catalyst for this literature review, which is a joint initiative of the City of Booroondara and the Salvation Army EastCare, was the lack of service options, coupled with the increasing demand for services to provide appropriate housing and support for older women, including women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.Unfortunately, the plight of older women confronting
2010
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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.
2010
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."