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Housing Our Ageing Population
With an ageing UK population, older people are now key players in the wider housing market.
Local Government Association
2017
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Age Specific Housing, Policy, Health

Cohousing Communities: A New Age-in-Place Lifestyle
A generally-acknowledged definition of cohousing is an intentional community with privately-owned homes clustered around a shared outdoor and indoor space. This article looks at the development of cohousing models for seniors in the US.
Gordon Walker, Kashuo Bennett
2017
Themes:
Age Specific Housing, Ageing-in-Place, Co-housing

Unsettled: Life in Australia's Private Rental Market
Unsettled: Life in Australia's private rental market, makes the case that rental rights in Australia lag far behind those in many other developed countries, where renters often enjoy secure long-term arrangements with strict limits on rent increases. By contrast, leases in Australia can be as short as six months, and when the contract ends and renters revert to a month-to-month arrangement t
Choice, National Shelter, The National Association of Tenant Organisations
2017
Themes:
Private Rental

Housing stress 'dire' as elderly Canberra women resort to sleeping in cars
Women more than 80 years old are turning to Canberra's homeless services for shelter, forced out of housing by the ACT's rental market, low savings and family violence. Homelessness services are reporting a rise in clients who are elderly women, some resorting to sleeping in cars and couch surfing for shelter before seeking help.
Doug Dingwall
2017
Themes:
Older Women, Housing Affordability, Private Rental, Rental Stress

Homelessness in Poland
There is no national data collection strategy for homelessness in Poland. The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy collects annual Social Welfare Statistics from all social welfare centres in Poland, including statistics on homeless assistance.
FEANTSA
2017
Themes:
Ageing Population, Older Men, Poverty & homelessness, Policy

Is Housing a Health Insult?
Abstract: In seeking to understand the relationship between housing and health, research attention is often focussed on separate components of people’s whole housing ‘bundles’.
Emma Baker, Andrew Beer, Laurence Lester, David Pevalin, Christine Whitehead, Rebecca Bentley
2017
Themes:
Health, Housing in General

Projected Demand for Supported Housing in Great Britain 2015 - 2030
This paper presents projections prepared for the Department of Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health of demand for supported housing for older people and younger adults in Great Britain to 2030 and associated future expenditure.
Raphael Wittenberg, Bo Hu
2017
Themes:
Ageing Population, Social Housing, Policy

Retirement Homes
Demand for retirement care in the US, including housing, is expected to grow at a fast pace in the coming decades. The probability of needing to rely on living assistance or even long-term full care rises sharply as people age.
UBS Switzerland
2017
Themes:
Ageing Population, Retirement Housing

Four Challenges to Aging in Place
Within 20 years, one in five Americans—almost 80 million people—will be older than 65 and, surveys indicate, they will want to remain in the current homes for as long as possible.
Jennifer Molinsky
2017
Themes:
Ageing-in-Place

Older homeless women’s identity negotiation: agency, resistance, and the construction of a valued self
Although men still outnumber women among the US adult homeless population, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of women, including older women, seeking shelter each night. The concept of ‘home’ is widely associated with women and serves as a source of identity and social order. Thus, homeless older women represent an intersection of stigma.
Judith Ganyea, Kelly Melekis
2017
Themes:
Concept of 'Home', Older Women, Ageing Population, Pathways into homelessness

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