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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
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
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
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
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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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
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
Aging and Housing Instability: Homelessness Among Older and Elderly Adults
This article provides a synthesis of recent literature on homelessness among older (age 50-64) and elderly (age 65 and older) adults in the United States. Much of the recent literature and policy focus has been placed on the plight of unstably housed youth and families.
2013
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."