Research Paper
ODESSA - Optimising Care Delivery Models to Support Ageing in Place
ODESSA is a three-year project with the aim of finding new and innovative ways of adapting a person’s home so that they can live independently for longer and avoid going into residential care, as well as making it easier for them to access public services such as health and social services.
2018
Themes:
Experiences of those aged 50+ in the private rented sector
The number of people in England, aged 50+ living in the private rented sector has reached a record high in recent times, at 1.13m in 2015/16 (compared to 651,000 in 2008/9). This equates to nine per cent of the population aged 50 and over (compared to 6 per cent in 2008/9).
2018
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Is the Victorian Housing Register providing transparency in the process for community housing offers that its introduction intended?
The purpose of this report is to ascertain whether or not the Victorian Housing Register is working as it intended in regards to the process of receiving community housing offers in the case of HAAG’s cohort of older people whoare homeless or at risk of homelessness.
2018
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Age-Friendly Communities Matter for Older People’s Well-Being
This Dutch study aims to identify relationships between age-friendly environments (in terms of social and physical neighborhood attributes) and older people’s overall well-being, as well as the underlying instrumental goals to achieve overall well-being.
2018
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Evaluation of the Homeshare pilots
Part of a series of three reports, this executive summary covers the third and final report from the evaluation of the UK Homeshare pilots programme.
2018
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Out of the frying pan into the fire: The experiences of Housing for the Aged Action Group clients referred to Independent Living Units
Outlines the experiences of clients seeking an Independent Living Unit (ILU), the experiences of clients with their housing since seeking retirement advice, and their perceptions of HAAG’s services.
2018
Housing Affordability and Homelessness
This report is about homelessness, considered in the context of our wider housing, service, and social system.
Homelessness is an urgent and growing problem. Currently, homelessness as an end point gets significant attention from governments and the specialist services working in the sector.
2018
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Social housing as infrastructure: an investment pathway
This research modelled five alternative pathways to funding social housing and found the ‘capital grant’ model, supplemented by efficient financing, provides the most cost effective model for Australia. The research also established the current and future unmet need for social housing in different parts of Australia.
2018
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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
2018
Ensuring living condition for ageing population by public–private partnership (PPP)
Lack of financial resources has become one of the main issues in
fulfilling social and physical needs in urban development. The declining levels of public resources make the collaboration between public and private investors necessary.
2018
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