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'A collective denial': Why are France's elderly treated so badly?
France has a reputation for being one of the best places to grow old, in part due to its high quality of life, excellent health care and having one of the world’s longest life expectancies.
Evie Burrows-Taylor
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Aged Care, Ageing-in-Place, Co-housing

The Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities Looking back over the last decade, looking forward to the next
This report gives a global overview of the progress that cities and communities have made over the last decade towards becoming more age-friendly, through the lens of the WHO Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Among the notable achievements, membership in the WHO Global Network has increased four-fold in the last two and a half years and more affiliate organizations are suppo
Alana Officer, Diane Wu
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Age-Friendly Cities, Community

A Novel Cohousing Project for Older Women and Implications for Loneliness
In this article, we describe a novel approach in older persons’ housing, a recently established cohousing development, ‘New Ground’ in London, UK. Cohousing is a form of grouped housing designed and managed by those who reside within it.
Helen Hopwood, Farhana Mann
2018
Themes:
Co-housing, Ageing Population, Older Women, Health

Housing an Ageing Australia: The Ideal of Security of Tenure and the Undermining Effect of Elder Abuse
This article considers the degree of legal security of tenure and ontological security in various forms of accommodation utilised by older people. In so doing, the article examines how elder abuse can dilute legal and ontological security and makes suggestions as to how existing real property laws could be utilised and amended to safeguard housing security for older people
Eileen Webb
2018
Themes:
Private Rental, Policy, Ageing Population, Elder Abuse

Another lost opportunity for housing affordability
The 2017 budget highlights the government’s preference for cosmetic rather than consequential changes in housing policy. On downsizing, the government has badged a giveaway to a small number of seniors as a housing affordability measure.
Brendan Coates, John Daley
2017
Themes:
Downsizing, Housing Affordability, Retirement, Policy

New Zealand not 'catching up' to social housing needs
The Salvation Army estimates New Zealand needs to build a minimum of 2000 social houses a year for at least the next decade just to meet demand. The country's social housing stock needs to grow from 82,000 to more than 100,000 in the next decade. Another 2000 a year was the bare minimum that needed to be constructed and half of those were needed in Auckland.
2017
Themes:
Policy, Housing Affordability, Private Rental, Rental Stress, Social Housing, Superannuation

Older homeless women's identity negotiation: agency, resistance and the construct of a valued self
Abstract There is a growing awareness that the adult homeless population is ageing, mirroring the general US population trend. Although men still outnumber women among the adult homeless population, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women, including older women, seeking shelter each night.
Judith Gonyea, Kelly Melekis
2017
Themes:
Ageing Population, Older Women, Concept of 'Home', Health, Pathways into homelessness

Housing affordability is not just about youth. 15,000 seniors are homeless
Private rental accommodation is now more unaffordable than owner-occupied. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, people who rent, spend more of their income on housing than people with a mortgage.
Nieves Murray
2017
Themes:
Ageing Population, Housing Affordability, Rental Stress, Private Rental

The funding and delivery of programs to reduce homelessness: the case study evidence
This research investigated how services supporting those experiencing homelessness are funded, and how different forms and levels of funding, together with diverse funding sources, impact on the delivery of homelessness assistance. This study is based on nine case studies focused on different service models, organisational forms and potential new ways of funding services for the homeless.
David MacKenzie, Sean McNelis, Paul Flatau, Ami Seivwright, Kylie Valentine
2017
Themes:
Homelessness Prevention Services, Crisis Housing

Retirement housing in Victoria: Working together - resident protections and industry viability
On 8 June 2017, 24 representatives from resident advocacy groups, universities, industry, ombudsman schemes, government agencies and regulators met in Melbourne at an Experts’ Forum to discuss the future of retirement housing regulation in Victoria. The Experts’ Forum was convened to consider three key issues arising from the Inquiry’s final report: • Reviewing the Retirement Villages Act 1986 (V
Per Capita
2017
Themes:
Retirement Housing, Policy

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