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The Future of Housing for Older Australians
The demand for seniors housing is expected to increase significantly in line with the ageing of the population over the coming decades. Broad changes to the housing situations of older people and the household structures in which they live have significant implications for successful ageing.
2015
Ending and Preventing Older Women's Experience of Homelessness in Australia
Older, single women are increasingly vulnerable to housing stress, insecurity and homelessness.
2015
Planning Neighbourhoods for all Ages and Abilities: A Multi-generational Perspective
Taking a more integrated approach to planning our neighbourhoods for the continuum of inhabitants’ ages and abilities makes sense given our current and future population composition. Seldom are the built environment requirements of diverse groups (e.g. children, seniors, and people with disability) synthesised, resulting in often unfriendly and exclusionary neighbourhoods.
2015
Cohousing: 'It makes sense for people with things in common to live together'
New housing scheme offering older people the chance to live independently but in a shared community.
The article discusses a pioneering new housing scheme for older women in North London, where members would move together into a custom-built housing development, in which each would have her own self-contained apartment and front door, but where they would share communal facilities.
2015
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Homeless South Australia: A 2015 stocktake of homelessness issues in South Australia
Homelessness has been at the forefront of public policy debate in South Australia since 2002 when the Rann Labor Government was formed and established its social inclusion initiative.
2015
The Meaning of a “Sense of Community” in a Finnish Senior Co-Housing Community
Cohousing schemes are developed to fulfill the need for a housing
type that provides mutual support and social contacts while alleviating the isolation and loneliness often experienced in ordinary neighborhoods.
2015
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How can we best design housing for Australia’s ageing population?
Few older Australians actually live in non-private housing such as nursing homes. Data from the 2011 Census reveals that 94% of Australians who are 65 or older still live in private housing. More than half live with a partner and another quarter live alone.
Australia’s current housing options are not future-proofed for its ageing population.
2015
Socially Healthy Ageing: The Importance of Third Places, Soft Edges and Walkable Neighbourhoods
Population ageing is a complex subject with implications for public policy and urban and regional planning. A key community responsibility of population ageing is to ensure the health and
wellbeing of this cohort. In this respect, planning for socially healthy ageing is a critical area requiring urgent and substantial research.
2015
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Neighbourhoods for ageing in place
The provision of support for ageing in place has become an important imperative in the redefinition of health and social care policy. Governments agree that the ability of older people to continue living in their neighbourhoods has economic and social value. Ageing in place policies thus fuel the need for supportive neighbourhoods that accommodate older people’s needs.
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The Finnish Homelessness Strategy: An International Review
The review covered the whole of the programme to reduce long-term homelessness
implemented during 2008–2011 and 2012–2015, Paavo I and Paavo II. The review
focused on the programme as a whole as well as its different aspects from the point
of view of implementing the Housing First model in Finnish society.
2015
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."