Future housing solutions
For Future Living: Innovative Approaches to Joining Up Housing and Health
In exploring housing and health for older people, our research examined the following questions:
• What do older people expect from their housing and housing providers?
• What choices does the UK housing market offer older and vulnerable people?
• What can we learn from the international literature about housing for older people, and can so-called intentional community approaches offer innovative
2014
Cooperative housing for an ageing Australia
The focus of this study is on not-for-profit cooperative housing and the role it may be able to play in addressing the challenge of an ageing population in Australia.
2014
Opportunities and Challenges of Innovative Housing and/or Support Service Models in fostering Aging in Place for Older Adults: A Critical Review
This capstone project presents a critical synthesis of recent literature (2000 to 2013) focused on three types of innovative housing and/or service models and aging in place to address housing needs for older adults.
By comparative analysis of their differences and similarities, opportunities and challenges are identified for Villages, Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) and Cohous
2014
Exploring the Potential of Innovative Housing Models for Older Adults to Support Aging-in-Place
The limitations of the current housing options for older adults in
meaningfully supporting older adults’ preference to age-in-place,
have led to the development of multiple innovative housing and service models. However, the potential of these models to support aging in place is not well understood and there is a paucity of empirical research in this area.
2013
Transforming almshouses for the 21st century
Almshouses have existed for a thousand years, but their role is not well-understood outside the almshouse movement.
2013
Wohnfabrik Solinsieme. A Swiss example of co-housing for older people
Architectural description of the Wohnfabrik Solinsieme housing co-operative for older people in Switzerland.
2013
Themes:
Aging in Community: The Communitarian Alternative to Aging in Place, Alone
Innovative options for aging in place in the US are leading to a new
paradigm known as aging in community—a grassroots movement of like-minded citizens who come together to create systems of mutual support and caring to maximize their ability to remain, as they age, in their homes and communities.
Aging in community promotes social capital—a sense of social connectedness and interdependence—enhan
2013
House Sharing for Boomer Women Who Would Rather Not Live Alone
In the US increasingly, female boomers and older women — both bosom buddies and strangers — are moving in together as a way to save money and form a community.
Conditions are ripe to make home sharing an option for many women. Four million women age 50-plus live in U.S. households.
2013
Themes:
Ageing and Women's Homelessness: Overcoming the bag lady syndrome
Australia is facing a tsunami of poverty amongst ageing female baby boomers that will directly affect their well-being, economic viability, and housing options. Flow-on effects will impact on families, support agencies, governments, and the community as whole.
While support agencies and federal and state governments have recognised the issue there has been little action.
2013
Social Innovation in Housing: Learning from practice across Europe
This paper presents and discusses the results of a brief scoping study on social innovation in housing in Europe.
2013
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