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Choosing between staying at home or moving: A systematic review of factors influencing housing decisions among frail older adults
To date, many factors have been taken into account in research on older adults’ housing decisions, including health and social factors. However, not all potential factors have been identified, especially those related to the built environment and what it represents for older adults.
2018
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Housing Related Challenges for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities
Older people from CALD backgrounds make up around 25 per cent of all older people in Australia. Though older CALD communities face many of the same barriers to housing experienced by the older population as a whole, such as inappropriate, insecure and unaffordable housing, they are also more likely to encounter additional challenges.
2018
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Take a walk around the Social Bite village for homeless people
This is the Social Bite Village, in Granton, Edinburgh, the result of a sustained fundraising and awareness drive with the lofty aim of bringing an end to homelessness at the heart of its ethos.
The emphasis is on the establishment of a community, with project leaders Social Bite partnering with homeless charity Cyrenians.
2018
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The disturbing truth you need to know about women's homelessness
Christine is a recently retired and now homeless mature age woman who has, like so many other retired professional women, little to no prospect of obtaining public or community housing, or being able to afford market price rentals.
She is the convenor of the Housing Alternatives self-help action group on Facebook and the creator of the Housing Alternatives web site,
2018
Global Living - Student, Senior Housing & Multifamily Occupier Demands
This report is about demand for living from different generations. We have focused primarily on two: the young and the elderly. They are shaping demand for some of the industry’s fastest growing asset classes. The market is now responding to under-served occupier groups by offering new and hybrid models that challenge conventional asset classes.
2018
Ageing on the Edge Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project
The Ageing on the Edge Older Persons Homelessness Prevention
Project is a partnership between Housing for the Aged Action Group HAAG) and the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning (CHURP).
Funded over five years by The Wicking Trust and with principal project leads Jeff Fiedler (HAAG) and Dr Debbie
Faulkner (CHURP), the project is addressing the rapidly increasi
2018
Women over 55 years now the fastest growing homeless people in Australia
The problems of homelessness are largely systemic and cannot be solved by community goodness alone. The Housing All Australians strategy shows how the private sector, working with the community sector, can provide immediate short-term shelter in buildings that are vacant pending planning & development process.
2018
'It's a Great Idea for Other People': Cohousing as an option for older Australians
Older Australians face housing challenges including supply, accessibility, affordability, security of tenure and isolation. This article reports on research conducted in the state of New South Wales, Australia into the potential for cohousing to address these challenges.
2018
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The most rapidly growing group of homeless Australians – it’s not who you expect
According to analysis of Census data by the Equality Rights Alliance, between 2011 and 2016 the number of homeless people in Australia rose from more than 102,000 people to more than 116,000. That’s an increase of nearly 14 percent.
However, during this same period the number of homeless women over 55 years old increased by 31 percent.
2018
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Housing America's Older Adults
Households headed by someone 50 or over represent 55 percent of all the nation’s households.
• Over the past several years, the most significant growth in older households came from baby boomers aged 65- 74.
2018
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."