Search the Library
The Growing Senior Population in Japan's Metropolitan Areas: Challenges for Japan, Hints for the World
Across Japan, the population is rapidly aging. An increase is expected in the number of households with a senior living alone or with the head of the household being aged 65 or older. These groups are expected to rise from about 30% of all households in 2015 to about 35% in 2025.
2018
Themes:
Specialist housing for older people
This fact sheet is about housing designed or designated for older people. In most cases, this is people over the age of 55 or 60. Specialist housing for older people comes in many different forms, which can be grouped according to the level of support offered.
2018
Themes:
An alternative for whom? The evolution and socio-economy of Danish cohousing
The article demonstrates how the development of Danish cohousing has been undergirded by distinct shifts in dominant tenure forms. Secondly, it shows that inhabitants in contemporary Danish cohousing are socio-economically distinct. This does not diminish the value of cohousing, but it problematises assumptions about the social sustainability of this housing form.
2018
Themes:
Social housing as infrastructure: an investment pathway
Ensuring necessary and appropriate levels of social housing investment begins with a well-evidenced understanding of the scale, type and location of need and secondly, an accurate understanding of the cost of procuring appropriate dwellings in the right locations.
2018
Themes:
The Challenges of Urban Ageing: Making Cities Age-Friendly in Europe
This article explores and describes the challenges that are encountered when making cities age-friendly in Europe. Such challenges include the creation of inclusive neighbourhoods and the implementation of technology for ageing-in-place.
2018
Themes:
Ticking Time Bomb Of Housing For Older People Needs Addressing In State Budget
COTA SA, the peak advocacy body for older people in South Australia, is urging the Liberal Government to make a commitment to address escalating housing stress and homelessness among older South Australians in its 2018/19 State Budget.
The housing ‘ticking time bomb' is one of a number of issues identified that COTA SA has included recommendations for in its 2018 State Budget Submission, del
2018
How to provide suitable and affordable housing for ageing people
With a global rise in the number of people aged 65-plus, it will be increasingly important to have appropriate housing that allows them to remain in their familiar communities and 'age in place' for as long as possible.
However, as experience shows in New Zealand and other parts of the world,housing for many people in this age group is far from appropriate.
In our research, we explore
2018
Unsuitable, insecure and substandard homes: The barriers faced by older private renters
Growing numbers of older people in the UK are living in private rented accommodation.
2018
Themes:
Spatial Agency: Creating New Opportunities for Sharing and Collaboration in Older People’s Cohousing
Older people’s cohousing enables individuals to share spaces, resources, activities, and knowledge to expand their capability to act in society. Despite the diverse social, economic, and ethical aims that inform the creation of every cohousing community, there is often a disconnect between the social discourse developed by cohousing groups and the architectural spaces they create.
2018
Themes:
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.
2018
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."