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Dwelling and land use by older home owners

Summary

This project focuses on the efficiency of older residents homes, and in particular, home owners. It considers the changes over the last decade in the size of Australia's older local and migrant population, the new developments in housing stock, and the effects of changes in home-based activities, including use of communication technology such as the internet, home-based work, child care and care provision for people with disabilities, and also changes to family and household structures.

Project Number: 70392
Research Theme: Health_Ageing_and_Disability
Project Leader: Judd, Bruce
Funding Year: 2007
Research Centre: UNSW-UWS

Description

The ageing of Australia's population has been met with an increasing focus on care and housing policies for older people. Recent research suggests new housing approaches need to be explored due to changing housing ambitions between 'baby-boomers' and older residents, and the different attitudes towards housing among older people from varying Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

The project aims to provide a better understanding of recent changes in the location, dwelling type, size of older home owner's dwellings and how these factors are influenced by the age of the occupants, their health, household type and cultural background.  In addition to the size of the dwelling and land, the project examines the design and layout of this space and how this space is used as the resident ages.  This provides a more accurate picture of how efficiently older home-owners currently occupy their housing stock and presents the opportunity to identify housing solutions that can improve the efficient use of housing stock, while ensuring that older occupants' housing and care requirements, and their preferences, are met.

The findings of this study will provide information on the current housing situation of older home owners, and a far better insight on their needs and preferences for their housing environment, and how they utilise their housing space.  These findings provide a means to better evaluate more space efficient housing alternatives, while ensuring these alternatives meet the requirements of older people and their households.

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Final Report due to be published: 1st quarter 2010

 

More Information

Positioning Paper: No. 111: Dwelling, land and neighbourhood use by older home owners
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