Australia
Women and Homelessness: Innovative Practice and Exit Pathways
This paper reports on recently completed research on women’s transitions out of homelessness and the role of housing and associated support services in offering ‘independence’.
It will provide an overview of the research and the outcomes in the final report. The research sought to answer the following questions:
a. What kinds of housing and support services do homeless women utilize?
b.
2003
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Housing options and independent living: sustainable outcomes for older people who are homeless
This research was undertaken on the premise that there is a lack of understanding about the needs of older homeless people in Australia, despite the fact that older people on fixed incomes in insecure housing are growing in number and are at particular risk of homelessness or the need for institutional care.
The research was guided by four questions: 1.
2003
Coping With Change: Comparing The Retirement Housing Decisions Of Older People.
As they age, older people are likely to spend significantly more time in their homes. Therefore the immediate surroundings and proximate environments play a vital role in how the older person adapts and copes with changes that occur with advancing age.
2003
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Housing an older Australia: More of the same or something different?
Older people’s housing is not only of interest to older people themselves: it attracts the attention of many others, each viewing it from their own perspective, and so each with
different interests in the future of older people’s housing. At least six different views that feature in debates about housing and older people can be identified:
1.
2003
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Snakes and Ladders: Women's Pathways Into and Out of Homelessness
Single homeless women are often described as the hidden homeless, whilst homelessness itself has been described as advanced marginality in a risk society.
This research provides an analysis of the pathways into and out of homelessness of single women aged 25-45 years without children in their care.
2002
The Housing and Other Service Needs of Recently Arrived Immigrants
This research has considered the use of housing and other services by recent immigrants to Australia. It has focussed on the relationship between housing, and housing assistance measures, and the use of other services by recent immigrants, as well as measures of their quality of life, vulnerability and satisfaction with Australia.
2002
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Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia’s Population
The ageing of the population is recognised as one of the major changes facing Australia at the turn of the century. Processes of individual and population aging have major implications for the changing composition and use of the nation’s housing stock.
1998
Housing implications of population ageing in Australia
The ageing of the population is recognised as one of the major changes facing Australia at the turn of the century. The future effects of population ageing can be anticipated because the next cohort of older people already are in late middle age. Similarly, the stock of dwellings in the housing market is long lasting and only 1– 2 per cent of additional dwellings are built each year.
1998
Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia’s Population
The conference explored a broad range of key issues to do with ageing, including its effects on economic growth, government revenue and expenditure in the long run, superannuation, health, the provision of long term care and housing arrangements.
This publication brings together the papers, discussants’ comments and summaries of general discussion in each session.
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Background Paper. Older women experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness. Melbourne.
This Background Paper provides a summary of the research evidence, service provider experiences and feedback, current Australian statistics, and current Australian services. The aim of this paper is to provide an introduction to the diverse experiences and needs of older women who are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
-2018
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