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Housing
— the unacknowledged key to our ageing challenge? | | Author(s) | Clare Tickell, Gillian Connor |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol 16, no 1, 2015 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2015 |
| Pages | pp 32-36 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/qaoa.htm |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Well being ; Quality of life ; Social policy ; Practical politics. |
| Annotation | Dame Clare Tickell and Gillian Connor of the Hanover Housing Association examine the strategic role of housing for older people, and how it can address some of the key challenges facing politicians. The paper aims to encourage decision-makers and service providers to collaborate in new ways locally. The paper argues that housing for older people is rising up the political agenda, but as a niche issue rather than one of strategic and economic importance. A multi-agency and outcomes-based approach to older people's wellbeing, based on place-shaping principles, needs to be mainstreamed locally. Older people have not escaped the impact of austerity measures; and this has heightened the need for a range of high quality housing options, in supportive communities, in later life. Good housing options for older people could resolve the key issues vexing politicians, but there are obstacles to older people accessing such options. The paper suggests a radical, systemic approach is required to ensure better outcomes for older people and, in turn, to generate savings for the public purse. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170519229 A |
| Classmark | KE: D:F:5HH: F:59: TM2: VL |
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