This document sets the scene for discussion on how the housing needs of an ageing population in Wales can be met. It begins by defining what it is meant by an ‘older’ person and how older people are an extremely heterogeneous group in terms of income, class, health and support needs. It provides a background to the current and projected demographic profile of the population in Wales (including on cross-sector perspectives on the importance of an integrated approach towards managing the opportunities and challenges of an ageing population in Wales.
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This document sets the scene for discussion on how the housing needs of an ageing population in Wales can be met. It begins by defining what it is meant by an ‘older’ person and how older people are an extremely heterogeneous group in terms of income, class, health and support needs. It provides a background to the current and projected demographic profile of the population in Wales (including limited information on housing tenure), thus providing an insight for planning ahead. In addition, it details the current policy and funding context for housing in Wales, as well as the building and planning regulations. The perspectives of older people and the accommodation options currently available for them in Wales are also discussed. Finally, this document considers the bigger picture, drawing on cross-sector perspectives on the importance of an integrated approach towards managing the opportunities and challenges of an ageing population in Wales.
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Subject terms:
housing, older people, literature reviews, policy, demographics, ageing, planning;
This report documents initial discussions and preliminary recommendations which emerged from an expert workshop held in June 2015 attended by experts from Wales, the rest of the UK and other European countries. The group was tasked with identifying the challenges that population ageing poses for housing needs in Wales, and to begin a scoping exercise to outline what the Welsh Government might do
(Edited publisher abstract)
This report documents initial discussions and preliminary recommendations which emerged from an expert workshop held in June 2015 attended by experts from Wales, the rest of the UK and other European countries. The group was tasked with identifying the challenges that population ageing poses for housing needs in Wales, and to begin a scoping exercise to outline what the Welsh Government might do to meet them. Based on written feedback and evidence provided by experts prior to the workshop, plus subsequent workshop discussion, the main issues and challenges identified for each question are documented in Section 1 of this report. Section 2 draws initial conclusions and sets out preliminary recommendations. These include: develop a housing strategy addressing older people’s housing requirements; review planning policies and procedures to include older people’s accommodation, and require Local Authorities to develop population-based housing needs assessments; identify brown-field sites suitable for housing with care developments, including rural sites; promote integrated working and funding for housing with care and independent living across health, housing and social care sectors; increase public and service provider awareness about housing with care options.
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This paper takes a critical perspective to the notion of ageing in place by examining older people's dislikes about, rather than levels of satisfaction with their home and neighbourhood environments, and establishing whether such dislikes influence a desire to move. Analysis of the 2004 Living in Wales Survey shows that despite high levels of residential satisfaction, a significant proportion
(Edited publisher abstract)
This paper takes a critical perspective to the notion of ageing in place by examining older people's dislikes about, rather than levels of satisfaction with their home and neighbourhood environments, and establishing whether such dislikes influence a desire to move. Analysis of the 2004 Living in Wales Survey shows that despite high levels of residential satisfaction, a significant proportion of older people do wish to move. Logistic regression results indicate this desire is strongly associated with dislikes about their immediate home environment, more than neighbourhood factors. Contemplating a move in later life may be shaped more by a desire to ‘attach’ to people, than to remain in situ to preserve an attachment to place.
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Subject terms:
older people, user views, neighbourhoods, housing, attitudes, ageing;
Social Policy and Administration, 44(7), December 2010, pp.808-826.
Publisher:
Wiley
... on population ageing and its implications for the housing needs of increasingly large numbers of older citizens. Through analysis of 6 recent strategic policy statements representing each government's official responses to population ageing and its social policy implications for the 21st century, the article demonstrates how differences in the social representation of the ageing process and of older people themselves permeate policy discourse, influencing the perceptions of the housing needs of older citizens and the role that housing itself may play in promoting independent living. In England, demographic ageing, housing and its role in facilitating independent living and active ageing are explicitly articulated, whilst in France, the housing environment has until recently, been portrayed as one which must
There is a broad European policy agenda which promotes ‘ageing in place’, where older people are helped to live independently in their own homes in familiar local environments. Placing independent living and ‘aging in place’ on the policy agenda means that housing will need to become a more central element of welfare agendas. This article compares recent English and French policy discourses on population ageing and its implications for the housing needs of increasingly large numbers of older citizens. Through analysis of 6 recent strategic policy statements representing each government's official responses to population ageing and its social policy implications for the 21st century, the article demonstrates how differences in the social representation of the ageing process and of older people themselves permeate policy discourse, influencing the perceptions of the housing needs of older citizens and the role that housing itself may play in promoting independent living. In England, demographic ageing, housing and its role in facilitating independent living and active ageing are explicitly articulated, whilst in France, the housing environment has until recently, been portrayed as one which must accommodate the illness, incapacity and dependency of later life. This article offers explanations for these differences in terms of cultural variations in the social representations of later life, divergences in political philosophies and welfare principles.
Subject terms:
independent living, housing, older people, social policy, ageing, government policy;