Gender

A Home of One's Own: Shared Equity Housing for Older Single Women
This project was established to research and develop a shared equity model of home ownership, specifically geared to the needs of lower income women over the age of 55 years.
Chris Black, Liss Ralston
2015
Themes:
Gender, Older Women, Housing Affordability, Future housing solutions

Aging and resilience: Older women’s responses to change and adversity
The primary objective of the qualitative study was to describe women’s resilience in older adulthood according to older women’s interpretations of their experiences and the contexts of their lives.
Cari L. Gulbrandsen, Christine Walsh
2015
Themes:
Older Women, Gender

Older Women's Pathways Out of Homelessness
The largest proportion of older women presenting with housing crisis in Australia have led conventional lives, and rented whilst working and raising a family. Few have previously had involvement with welfare and other support systems. Older women’s risk of homelessness can be lessened by the way welfare and housing systems work and interact with older women.
Maree Petersen
2014
Themes:
Gender, Older Women, Policy, Poverty & homelessness

Older women’s pathways out of homelessness in Australia
This study examines pathways out of homelessness for older women in Australia. It seeks to understand the range of possible responses and program models that would assist in addressing their homelessness. It explicitly intends to inform the service sector.In Australia there has been increasing attention to older women’s homelessness.
Maree Petersen
2014
Themes:
Older Women, Gender

Living longer on less: Women speak on superannuation and retirement
The gender difference in superannuation balances is well documented, with women retiring on an average superannuation balance of $112,000, compared to $198,000 for men (Keene, 2013).
Debra Parkinson, Cathy Weiss, Claire Zara, Alyssa Duncan, Kei Judd
2013
Themes:
Gender

Addressing later life homelessness
This report examines older people’s homelessness in Australia. It follows on from the earlier report Homelessness and Older Australians: Scoping the Issues, published in 2011. The research has been funded through the Australian Government’s Homelessness Research Partnership Agreement, administered by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
Andrew Jones, Maree Petersen
2013
Themes:
Gender, Older Women

Ageing out of place: The impact of gender and location on older Victorians in homelessness: Pilot Study Summary
This pilot study, generously supported by a grant from the Mercy Foundation (NSW), aimed to provide insight into how gender and location affect the housing and homelessness pathways and experiences of people aged 55 years and over who have experienced homelessness or housing crisis in Victoria.
Shelley Mallett, Trish Westmore
2013
Themes:
Gender, Regional Rural & Remote Areas

Addressing later life homelessness
The study aims to contribute material to inform policies to reduce older people’s homelessness. The set of projects presented in this report are explicitly intended to provide a foundation for policies around homelessness for older Australians.
Maree Petersen, Andrew Jones
2013
Themes:
Policy, Pathways into homelessness, Ageing Population, Health, Gender

Prevalence of Homeless Older Adults and Factors Causing Their Homelessness: A Review
Objectives: To examine the prevalence of homeless older adults and causes of homelessness among the elderly. Methods: Systematic review involving search of Medline, Cochrane Review and GoogleScholar, including homeless, homelessness, elder, elderly, aged and in old age. For prevalence, articles before 2000 were excluded, and samples had to be at least 50 ±5 years of age.
Stephanie Ng, Shafqat Rizvi, Mark Kunik
2013
Themes:
Ageing Population, Pathways into homelessness, Gender, Health, Definition of 'at risk of homelessness'

Homelessness and identity: a critical review of the literature and theory
Within the news media and literature, alike, people experiencing homelessness are often categorised into various stereotypes revolving around their lack of abode. In such a practice a ‘homeless identity’ becomes the defining feature of a person’s character.
Lindsey McCarthy
2013
Themes:
Gender, Older Women, Stereotypes of Homelessness, Policy

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