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Downsizing in later life and appropriate housing size across our lifetime
— how an unholy trinity of ageism, self-denial and misinterpretation are shaping housing policies for older people | | Corporate Author | International Longevity Centre - UK (ILC-UK); Hanover |
| Publisher | Hanover, Staines, 2013 |
| Pages | 24 pp (The hanover@50debate 6) |
| Source | Downloads at: http://www.hanover50debate.org.uk/debates/think-pi... |
| Annotation | This is the sixth in a series of ten think pieces from leading UK think tanks to mark Hanover's 50th year in providing high quality housing and related services for older people. Authors from the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK) call for a fresh look at under-occupation and housing in later life. Asking older people alone to downsize is ageist: we should be discouraging under-occupation through life. Older people will move, if they are offered housing options that will improve their quality of life and potentially improve their health and social care outcomes in later years. Local authorities have seen retirement housing as largely for those with existing care needs, exacerbating the sector's image problem. We need to build more homes if we want to encourage downsizing. Otherwise we could make things worse for first-time buyers if they and older people are chasing similar smaller homes. This item is also a chapter in 'Perspectives on ageing and housing: insights by leading UK think tanks' (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-131127007 E |
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