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Understanding the Essence of Home: Older People’s Experience of Home in Australia
This qualitative inquiry explores the experiences of community-living older people in Australia living in their home environment.
Participants in this study stated that they were interested in the capacity of the house to support their many and varied occupations, particularly their ability to care for others.
2011
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Evaluation of the extra care housing initiative: PSSRU technical report
A central principle underlying the policy of recent UK governments has been to help people maintain their independence in their own homes for as long as possible. More recently, policies have emphasised the personalisation of services, with the aim of giving people greater choice and control over the services they receive.
2011
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Housing First Europe : Final Report
The Housing First Europe (HFE) project was a social experimentation project, funded by the European Commission, DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, under the PROGRESS programme from August 2011 to July 2013.
2011
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Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Communities
The idea that the environment in which older adults live profoundly impacts their lives has a long history in gerontology. Research has
focused less on the macro environment – neighbourhood/community, region, or urban-rural localities.
2011
How do unfamiliar environments convey meaning to older people? Urban dimensions of placelessness and attachment
"Attachment to place" within the gerontological literature is associated with long time periods of exposure to a place and has significantly contributed to how we give meaning to the spaces inhabited and used by older people. We also define ‘‘place’’ in this study on a macro scale - a city or town, rather than in micro terms of accommodation or home.
2011
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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Housing costs and living standards among the elderly
How do the living standards of older Australians compare with those of the overall population? How much variation in living standards is there across the elderly population and how have their living standards changed over time?
Home ownership has been identified as an important aspect of the retirement support package in Australia.
2010
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A predictable crisis: Older, single women as the new face of homelessness
The dissolution of partnerships and re-partnering involve serious risks for women and their children, according to this paper.
2010
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Housing needs of asset-poor older Australians: other countries’ policy initiatives and their implications for Australia
This project aims to explore how the asset-poor status of older Australians helps to determine their demand for housing assistance, the coping strategies used by the asset-poor as they strive to secure satisfactory housing outcomes and the importance of these outcomes to ontological security.
2010
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."