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SUMMARY This study forecast future expenditure on housing assistance programs; the additional outlays on ISPs due to asset test concessions to home owners; and the aggregate value of home ow... Read more
Housing Studies Volume 32, 2017, no. 7 Current Table of Contents – A selection of articles with links to abstracts Support for tenure mix by residents local to the Carlton Housing Esta... Read more
Extract from a report by Kate Roberts, Social Policy Section Introduction Aged care, as it is known in Australia, is usually called ‘long-term care’ or ‘social care’ in other countries.1 It... Read more
Extract from an artcile by Emma Power, Senior Research Fellow, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University. Government strategies to manage population ageing largely assume that o... Read more
ABSTRACT This study examined how older adults’ living arrangements and poverty status affected their use of in-home health, functional, and out-of-home services over time. Using eight waves... Read more
Extract from an article by Chris Riedy, Kylie McKenna, Laura Wynne and Matthew Daly Housing Australia’s ageing population in homes that are affordable, accessible and sustainable presents a... Read more
Extract from an article by Beth Baker, Aging in Community Blogger, April 26, 2017. Part of the Transforming Life as We Age Special Report A modest program aimed at keeping older adults indep... Read more
ABSTRACT The concept of home to women ageing should be visited in the light of ongoing cultural, political, temporal and disciplinary evolutions. In part, to compliment policies increasing f... Read more
ABSTRACT The article examines how the housing tenure of older Australians, who are primarily or solely dependent on the government age pension for their income, impacts on their health. Draw... Read more
No country for old men or women: rental sector needs adapt for ageing Australia – Financial Review
Extract from an article by Michael Bleby Nicole Chapman is one in 2.56 million. She’s part of the growing band of renters which this week’s Census figures showed accounts for nea... Read more
Extract Leading seniors advocate, COTA Australia, will today host a housing policy summit, with experts warning of a looming crisis as older Australians face mounting pressure from rising re... Read more
Extract from an article by Jacob Saulwick and Peter Martin Garnet O’Neill neither owns his apartment outright, nor owns a mortgage over the property. In this, he is increasingly typica... Read more
Extract from an artilce by Natasha Egan Older Australians from a migrant background are still not well reflected in aged care service provision and policies around ageing, a forum has heard.... Read more
Housing crisis: property industry finds some solutions but how well do they work – The Fifth Estate
Extract from an article by Sandra Edmunds Pop-up youth shelters in empty hotels. Portable homes on vacant land set aside for roads. Innovative solutions are appearing to tackle the affordabl... Read more
Extract Current trends suggest that the changes in aged care that we’ve seen so far are just the tip of the iceberg, writes Robert Goodliffe. Aged care is undergoing a revolution.Various tre... Read more