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The Australian dream : housing experiences of older Australians /
Australia is experiencing a significant demographic shift - the proportion of the population that is aged 65 years and older is increasing substantially and will continue to do so. With this shift comes particular housing challenges for older people. The Australian Dream examines the impacts of hous...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clayton, Vic. :
CSIRO Publishing,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; About the author; Acknowledgements; 1 Housing tenure and an ageing society; 2 The growing divide: housing policy and older Australians; 3 'You cannot live on that ... It's a joke': housing tenure and the capacity to pay for accommodation; 4 'You go past the shops and you look and you can't buy': the cost of accommodation and the ability to lead a decent life on the Age Pension; 5 'Exceedingly miserable and bloody cold': accommodation and housing tenure; 6 'My social life is down the drain': housing tenure, social ties and leisure
- 7 'I really have thought this can't go on': housing tenure and health8 'I won't be here that long because they are waiting for the right price': landlord-tenant relations; 9 The increasing residualisation49 of social housing and its implications for older tenants; 10 Conclusions: where to from here?; Appendix A: methodology employed in the study; Appendix B: profile of interviewees; Endnotes; References; Index