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Strategies to Meet the Housing Needs of Older Adults
Many adults, as they age and their abilities change, find that shortcomings in their homes and communities can limit where they are able to live. Some of these limitations are related to features of the housing stock itself, while others are rooted in community characteristics that do not accommodate an aging population.
Keith Wardrip
2010
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Policy, Future housing solutions

What makes a community age-friendly: A review of international literature
The building and maintenance of an age-friendly environment is widely regarded as a core component of a positive approach to addressing the challenge of population ageing. This paper reviews the literature on age-friendly communities published since 2005.
Chi-Wai Lui, Jo-Anne Everingham, Jeni Warburton, Michael Cuthill, Helen Bartlett
2009
Themes:
Age-Friendly Cities, Lifetime Neighbourhoods, Ageing Population

Strategic Review of Housing Provision for Older People in Elmbridge
The project was to undertake a strategic review of housing provision and services for older people in Elmbridge with the production of a Final Report to assist housing and service providers with their future planning.
Peter Fletcher Associates Ltd
2009
Themes:
Ageing Population, Age Specific Housing

Institutions and Social Change: implementing co-operative housing and environmentally sustainable development at Christie Walk
It is evident that both the old laissez-faire approach and the more recent neo-conservative reliance on the market have failed to deliver housing for many people in Australia. The state-based welfare housing model espoused by the Australian Labor Party over the twentieth century has also been beset by problems.
Susan McClean, Jennifer Onyx
2009
Themes:
Environmental Sustainability, Future housing solutions

Village Concept Promotes Aging in Place
The US National Aging in Place Council was founded on the belief that “an overwhelming majority of older Americans want to remain in their homes for as long as possible but there is a lack of awareness of home and community-based services, which help make independent living possible.” With the needs and motivations of the aging population to remain in homes and communities, older adults have foun
Donna Mae Mascarinas Scheib
2009
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Policy, The Village Model

Shelter-based convalescence for homeless adults in Amsterdam: a descriptive study
Adequate support for homeless populations includes shelter and care to recuperate from illness. This is a descriptive analysis of diagnoses and use of shelter-based convalescence in a cohort of homeless adults in Amsterdam. Over the last decades, shelter-based convalescence care programs increasingly emerged in the western world.
Igor van Laere, Matty de Wit, Niek Klazinga
2009
Themes:
Health, Older Men, Crisis Housing

Contentment and suffering: the impact of Australia's housing policy and tenure on older Australians.
Post WWII, the housing policy of successive Australian governments has focused on facilitating the expansion of home ownership. This policy has enabled a large proportion of older Australians to acquire their own homes.
Alan Morris
2009
Themes:
Ageing Population, Private Rental, Public Housing, Policy, Housing Affordability

Working on the Margins Japan's Precariat and Working Poor
In recent years the concept of an 'homogenous middle class society' is being contested in the sociological discourse on Japan. What can be identified as a new phenomenon are the highly educated working poor. They experience an immense disparity between their expected high social status attained through education and their actual precarious working conditions.
Julia Obinger
2009
Themes:
Ageing Population, Older Men, Poverty & homelessness, Policy

Enabling older homeless minority women to overcome homelessness by using a life management enhancement group intervention.
This paper describes the importance of a life management enhancement group intervention for older minority women in developing personal control and self-confidence in social relationships as they overcome homelessness. Women in the treatment group showed significantly greater personal control and higher levels of self-confidence following the six-week intervention than women in the control group.
Olivia Washington, David Moxley, Jacquelyn Taylor
2009
Themes:
Older Women, Health, Poverty & homelessness, Pathways out of homelessness

The Finnish Homelessness Strategy: From a 'Staircase' Model to a "Housing First' Approach to Tackling Long-term Homelessness
This paper reviews the Finnish government’s recently established Programme to Reduce Long-Term Homelessness, which is attempting to halve long-term homelessness over the period 2008 to 2011. It outlines the current homeless situation in Finland and describes the development of the present system of provision.
Hannele Taihio, Peter Fredriksson
2009
Themes:
Housing First, Policy

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