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New Approaches to Housing for Older People
This UK report looks at the approaches of organisations that are working to meet the opportunities of our ageing population; it also identifies some of the critical challenges to this, notably but not exclusively around financing, and offers some challenges back to local and central government, for their role in developing a framework that can make it easier for the industry to respond.
2014
Preventing first time homelessness amongst older Australians
This study examines older people’s homelessness in Australia, with a particular focus on the experience of becoming homeless for the first time in later life.
2014
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The challenge of an ageing population for social housing can be addressed with an accessible housing register
The UK’s ageing population will will necessitate more specially adapted or ‘accessible’ housing stock. But with continuing long term financial austerity there will be a growing pressure on social landlords to achieve value for money. An accessible housing register is a way to address these issues.
2014
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Skid Row, Yokohama: Homelessness and Welfare in Japan
Following the bursting of the bubble economy in Japan at the beginning of the 1990s, demand for casual labor slumped. By the end of the decade, there were so few jobs left that most men had given up the struggle.
2014
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An Alternative Age-Friendly Handbook (for the socially engaged urban practitioner
This Alternative Age-friendly Handbook provides a playful and critical exploration of what creative urban practitioners can bring to emerging debates around the creation of Age-friendly Cities. What follows is a series of suggested modes and methods of Age-friendly practice. Small-scale actions and interventions we can start taking now to create Age-friendly spaces.
2014
Down and out in upscale Japan
A newly released government survey found that Tokyo's homeless population has reached an all-time low. But critics call the survey incomplete and misleading, and yet another effort to look past a population that is contending with growing economic disparity,
Homelessness was a problem that was largely unknown until the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s and unemployment rose sharply.
2014
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Downsizing amongst older Australians
The context of this research is the ageing population in Australia and its implications for housing and urban development. Ageing in place is a key policy response to population ageing, but this begs the question: ageing in what kind of place?
2014
Long-term Senior Policy in Poland: for the years 2014-2020
A senior policy for Poland. It covers all areas of ageing, including housing and age-friendly communities.
An objective in the housing area is to support universal design, including the needs of elderly people.
2014
Housing for Older Persons: Options Paper
The government has made significant changes to the way social housing is delivered across New Zealand following recommendations in 2010 by the Housing Shareholders Advisory Group.
2014
'Ageing in Place' in Europe: A multidimensional approach to independent living later in life
This research focuses on the independent living of old people (Ageing in Place) considering it as a process of adaption between older individuals and their living environment in which the goal is to remain at home, despite the possible deterioration of their cognitive functions.
The main objective of the work is to explore how the adaption process works, its characteristics, existing types and th
2014
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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."