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Home-ownership in later life: financial benefit or burden?
- Authors:
- HANCOCK Ruth, et al
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 70p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Study analysing the financial costs and benefits of owner-occupation in later life. Includes sections on: home ownership among older people in Britain; the housing wealth of older home owners; is owning cheaper than renting; the potential for housing wealth to supplement income in later life; housing as a form of saving; and conclusions and policy issues.
Housing and older people in 2025
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Registered Homes and Services, 4(5), September 1999, pp.73-74.
Presents a summary of the Help the Aged report, 'Our future home: housing and the inclusion of older people in 2025', which emphasise the need to be more flexible in service provision and the need to respond to the rights and choices of older people.
Older owner-occupiers' perceptions of home-ownership
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Although surveys show that the great majority of older home-owners prefer to own rather than rent their homes, a more detailed interviewed study carried out at King's College London demonstrates that their views are complex and that, although they do generally much prefer to be owner-occupiers, they see burdens accompanying this status. Outlines the findings of the study.
Home-ownership in old-age: financial benefit or burden
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
There is a view that simply because more older people own their homes, they are financially better off than older people used to be. But 40 per cent of people aged 65 and over are not home-owners, renting can be as cheap and the values of some homes are quite low. Outlines the findings of a study.
Future housing strategies for older people: challenges and opportunities; Amsterdam conference findings
- Author:
- HOUSING FOR OLDER PEOPLE IN EUROPE
- Publisher:
- Housing Corporation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a conference of housing providers across Europe. Contains papers on: challenges for the future of housing for older people; meeting the challenges; the wider role of social housing; and finding new approaches and solutions.
The preventative approach
- Author:
- FLETCHER Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 2(3), September 1999, pp.29-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on the findings from national research, 'Promoting well-being: developing a preventive approach with older people', which show housing as a central part of the preventative agenda when working with older people.
Working with older people: a community development approach
- Authors:
- JONES Nigel, PORTEUS Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 2(2), June 1999, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Provides an account of two projects initiated by Anchor Trust and funded by the Department of Health Community Care Development Programme for a period of two years - 1996 to 1998. The projects, in Brighton and Hartlepool, were supported by the local authorities, health agencies and the voluntary sector, and worked in close collaboration with them to establish local service networks with older people. The projects were evaluated by the Nuffield Institute for Health, and this article is based on a forthcoming evaluation report.
Care at a cost
- Author:
- McGARRY Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Roof, March 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Shelter
Housing benefit used to pay for some non-housing care services until a legal ruling in 1997 ruled this out. Assesses the implications of the new government proposal, in 'Supporting People', for all-in-one budgets for vulnerable people's homes and support services.
To have and to hold: the bond between older people and the homes they own
- Authors:
- ASKHAM Janet, et al
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 62p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Presents the findings of a detailed interview study looking at the attitudes of older home owners to their property. Finds that the interviewees see the independence and financial aspects of home ownership as both beneficial and burdensome. Individual circumstances, such as divorce, disability or widowhood influenced their views about moving home and about residential care.
If I had no choice: the housing needs of ethnic elders
- Editor:
- BARROW Jess
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Short report based on research examining the housing needs of minority ethnic older people, with the primary aim of allowing their voices to be heard. Also examines relevant literature, the Scottish policy context, and the attitudes of local authorities towards meeting the needs of black and minority ethnic older people.