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Residential Transition for Older Queenslanders
Queensland’s ageing population will present enormous opportunities and challenges over coming decades. Housing plays a foundational role in assuring quality of life, ageing in place, and supporting active and independent living for older Queenslanders.
2016
Homes for Life: Towards an older persons housing strategy
Homes for Life: Towards an older persons housing strategy has been developed by a coalition of non-government organisations concerned about the increasing housing affordability crisis facing our ageing population.
As our population ages there is massive housing change underway. Home ownership, formerly the foundation of our housing, pension and aged care system, is rapidly in decline.
2016
Social Sector-led Elderly Housing in Denmark and Japan
Denmark has been a pioneer in social-sectorled elderly housing. It is especially known for a high level of participation from the social
sector and a generally high standard of retirement housing design and service delivery. The social sector provides for 20% of social housing in Denmark whereas the government provides for just 2%.
2016
Creating a home for eldercare using the ‘Green House’ design concept
The institutional feel of the “nursing home” our parents/grandparents may have spent time in is no longer considered acceptable. The design for eldercare facilities must become increasingly compelling.
The Green House is one promising concept.
2016
Aging on the Streets: America’s Growing Older Homeless Population
The face of American homelessness is changing — into an older one. People 50 and older make up more than 30 percent of the nation’s homeless population.
2016
Multigenerational homes that fit just right
The number of Americans living in multigenerational households — defined, generally, as homes with more than one adult generation — rose to 56.8 million in 2012, or about 18.1 percent of the total population, from 46.6 million, or 15.5 percent of the population in 2007,
The homebuilding industry is responding quickly to this shifting demand by creating homes specifically intended for such famili
2016
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Criteria for Defining Senior Cohousing
SAGE cohousing advocacy group in the US presents a list of criteria that ensures the integrity and authenticity of the senior cohousing model. McCamant & Durrett Architects provide the architectural and certification management of the projects.
2016
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Lessons from Finland: helping homeless people starts with giving them homes
The housing first model is quite simple: when people are homeless, you give them housing first – a stable home, rather than progressing them through several levels of temporary and transitional accommodation.
2016
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What would it take to make an age-friendly city?
The challenges of caring for older people are growing as we live longer. By 2050 an estimated 83.7 million people in the US will be over 65.
2016
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Population Ageing and Housing: Policy Implications
Population ageing is creating economic opportunities as well as significant challenges for the NSW economy and the state government. On the one hand, a growing number of seniors represent a powerful economic force in terms of their consumption spending and their housing assets.
2016
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."