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Australian Association of Gerontology: Position Statement – Research priorities in housing for older Australians *

Overview The Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) nominated the housing needs of older Australians as its Hot Topic for research in 2010, and convened a series of seminars, workshops and symposia focused on the topic across the country through the year. This Position Statement has been distilled from these events and identifies the five research priorities as: 1 Greater support for research into how current housing stock can be made more age-friendly, including through home modifications that are practical and affordable to older people on low incomes; 2 Greater research and investment into age-friendly public housing to ensure vulnerable older people from disadvantaged backgrounds have secure, affordable and suitable places to live; 3 Further investigation of the expanding role of service integrated housing in providing options situated between community care and residential aged care, with principles and guidelines developed to ensure access for older people with low incomes and low assets, and those living in rural and remote communities; 4 Research into why homeless older people and those in insecure housing appear reluctant to take up services, despite Government initiatives to engage them; and 5 Continued support for multidisciplinary research into relationships between population ageing and trends in housing demand to provide a robust evidence base to inform policies that are responsive to the housing needs of older Australians over the coming decades.