Community

A Qualitative Analysis of an Age Friendly Community Initiative

This article examines an age-friendly community initiative in Tallahassee, Florida where, although the planning process allowed information to be gathered efficiently, inclusion of a wider public was prevented by the narrow approach, lack of resources, centralized decision-making, and strategic selection of stakeholders.
Alex Quintero
2018
Themes:
Community, Lifetime Neighbourhoods, Ageing-in-Place

Ageing with Choice: Future directions for seniors housing 2019–2024
The western Australian Government's Ageing with Choice document provides direction over the next five years to improve housing choice and outcomes for older Western Australians. Ageing with Choice recognises that everyone ages differently. Housing needs in older age are driven by changes in health, financial or family circumstances, rather than numerical age.
Department of Communities, Government of Western Australia"
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Affordable Housing, Lifetime Neighbourhoods, Community, Policy

Pop-up shelter initiative helps homeless older women
An innovative approach to the temporary use of a vacant building site owned by Uniting, the service arm of the Uniting Church, is providing a temporary safe haven for older homeless women who are literally left out in the cold when it comes to specialist homelessness services.
2018
Themes:
Older Women, Community, Crisis Housing

Ageing in the margins: expectations of and struggles for ‘a good place to grow old’ among low-income older Minnesotans
What constitutes a ‘good place to grow old’? This US study aimed to characterize salient features of built and social environments that are essential to support low-income ageing residents.
Jessica Finlay, Joseph Gaugler, Robert Kane
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Poverty & homelessness, Community, Health, Concept of 'Home', Homelessness Prevention Services

The Intersection Between Sustainability and Age-Friendly Development
This chapter explores the intersection between sustainable development and the age-friendly project in Portland by detailing a case study of factors that affected the planning and development of sustainable, affordable housing for older adults in Portland.
Alan DeLaTorre
2018
Themes:
Age-Friendly Cities, Ageing-in-Place, Policy, Community, Affordable Housing, CALD Communites

Social Integration of Older Adults in the Periphery of Israel in Two Settlement Types
The study examines which variables are connected to social integration of older people in their living settlement; whether the type of settlement is connected to the social integration of older adults, and, also, what variables function as mediators in the connection between the settlement type and social integration. The findings show that older adults who resided in rural settlements were more
Adi Vitman- Schorr
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Aged Care, Community, Health, Regional Rural & Remote Areas

Re-Inventing Existing Real Estate of Social Housing for Older People: Building a New De Benring in Voorst, The Netherlands
Enabling one to age-in-place requires new housing arrangements that facilitate and enable older adults to live comfortably into old age, preferably with others. Innovative examples are provided from a Dutch social housing association, illustrating a new approach to environmental design that focuses more on building new communities in conjunction with the building itself, as opposed to the occupat
Joost van Hoof, Peter Boerenfijn
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Community, Social Housing, Co-housing

Rural Housing for an Ageing Population: Preserving Independence
This UK report presents the findings of our All-Party Parliamentary Group’s latest Inquiry: Rural Housing for our Ageing Population: Preserving Independence, the fourth in this series of “HAPPI” reports covering different aspects of housing and care for older people. Our underlying concern is with the growing numbers of older people in rural communities who will face a huge challenge to their ind
Jeremy Porteous
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Policy, Age Specific Housing, Ageing-in-Place, Future housing solutions, Community, Health, Regional Rural & Remote Areas

Austin's Fix for Homelessness: Tiny Houses, and Lots of Neighbors
Community First! Village’s model for ending homelessness emphasizes the stabilizing power of social connections. The village is a 27-acre master planned community just outside Austin, Texas, where more than 200 people who were once chronically homeless live in tiny homes and RVs.
Megan Kimble
2018
Themes:
Tiny Houses, Community, Future housing solutions

Designing Homes for an Ageing Population
Improved health and longevity in Ireland will lead to significant advances in how long people choose to work into old age, and presents huge opportunities for new thinking about positive attitudes towards ageing. As discussed in this report, this will place demands on Ireland’s social welfare and pensions system, and – without reform of housing policy the need for nursing homes and acute hospital
Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Age Specific Housing, Ageing-in-Place, Community

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