Research Handbook on Housing and Ageing

This incisive Research Handbook explores the multi-faceted relationship between housing and ageing populations. Adopting diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, it addresses the intersection of ageing, housing and care across a range of social and cultural contexts.Contributions from renowned and emergent scholars and older people highlight how housing is shaped by political economy, policy regimes and lived biography. They challenge normative ideas around the universality of debt-free home ownership, ageing in place and one-size-fits all policy solutions. Chapters outline the need for a rethinking of care systems that moves beyond individualised solutions, towards approaches which address the structural inequalities underpinning experiences of ageing in place and in care. Considering the issue through a political lens, contributors discuss sustainable and socially just future housing and elder care legislation.This Research Handbook is an essential resource for academics and students of social policy, housing social care, gerontology and human geography. Policymakers and practitioners in the fields of housing policy, care policy, urban development and sustainable development will also benefit from key insights and recommendations for just and sustainable policy making.