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Innovative Seniors Housing and Care Models: What We Can Learn from the Netherlands
This report highlights some innovative seniors housing and care practices from the Netherlands.
The first is the Humanitas Apartments for Life, where if and when residents need assisted living or nursing facility level care, it is brought to them, thereby eliminating stigma and relocation issues.
The second is the unique dementia village of De Hogeweyk.
2014
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Exploring the Meaning of Home for Six Baby Boomers
Current policy and practice in the UK is that people should, wherever possible, age at home, but there is no research into what home means to baby boomers.
Therefore, this researcher asks two questions. Firstly, how can the meaning of home for baby boomers be explored? Secondly, what influence does the life course have on the meaning of home for six baby boomers?
2014
Older Homeless Women in Australia
Australia is often cited as an economic success story. Unfortunately, not everyone has reaped these economic benefits and concern has been mounting for some time about a deteriorating wealth divide within Australian society. Central to these concerns is the lack of affordable housing.
2014
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My House or My Home? The challenges of ageing and housing
Discussion points from the Social Care Workforce Research Unit (King's College, London) 2014 Annual Conference.
2014
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Security of tenure for the ageing population in Western Australia Does current housing legislation support Seniors’ ongoing housing needs?
The genesis of this research commenced several years ago as the impact of Western Australia’s ‘resources boom’ was becoming evident. . Although that period augured in years of prosperity for some Western Australians, for many – especially those on lower and fixed incomes – the rising cost of living became problematic.
2014
Women and Homelessness in Spain
This work focuses on the situation of homeless women in present-day Spain. This constitutes both a social and a personal problem embedded in the dynamics of social exclusion and linked to the interplay among structural, family/relational, personal and cultural elements.
2014
Local government research into a 'hidden' issue
City of Bundoora and Monash University collaborative research exploring the experiences & issues that place single older women (55+) at risk of homelessness or that lead to homelessness.
2013
Senior cohousing communities - an alternative approach for the UK?
Cohousing is a way of living both ‘apart and together’ with a collaborative group of neighbours who know each other and sign up to certain values. They work to develop the social capital that creates and maintains a sense of community.
Senior cohousing needs policy makers to recognise the benefits for older people of living in this way and to work to remove the obstacles that impede them.
2013
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Financial abuse of older people by family members: Views and experiences of older Australians and their family members
Research indicates that the most commonly reported form of abuse of older people in Australia is financial abuse and the majority of perpetrators are family members. The number of people aged 65 years and over in Australia is growing rapidly and the challenges of aging often require support and assistance from family members, so it is important to develop strategies to prevent this form of abuse.
2013
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Municipal Project for Intergenerational Housing and Community Services in Alicante
Initiated in 2003 by the Municipal Housing Board of Alicante, the Municipal Project for Intergenerational Housing and Community Services works to address the specific housing needs of low-income older persons and young people through the provision of 244 affordable, intergenerational housing units in central urban areas.
The Spanish project not only provides decent, accessible housing but also wo
2013
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."