Ageing in Place

Edited by Bruce Judd, Emeritus Professor, City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia, Kenichi Tanoue, Professor, Department of Environmental Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Japan and Edgar Liu, Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia

Contents:

1 Introduction: ageing in place in the Western Asia-Pacific 1
Bruce Judd, Edgar Liu and Kenichi Tanoue

PART I DESIGN
2 Housing typology and ageing in place in Australia 14
Bruce Judd
3 Ageing in place: Japan struggles toward its realization 34
Satoshi Kose
4 Community opposition to embedded facilities for the elderly in Chinese
urban communities 39
Zhang Song and Lei Jing-Wen
5 A field survey on the environmental characteristics of day care centres
for the demented elderly in Taiwan 48
Hwang Yao-Rong
6 Preferable home environment for the independent elderly to prevent
falls and maintain activities of daily living 60
Satoshi Muraki

PART II PLANNING
7 Ageing in sprawl: urban form and the challenges for age-friendly planning 70
Mariana Atkins
8 Ageing and depopulation in the mountains of Japan and Spain 84
Masakazu Tani, Tomo Inoue, Kazuo Asahiro, Naoyuki Oi and Kenichi Tanoue
9 The Livability App: older and vulnerable users’ perspectives on space
design, access provision and services 97
Catherine Bridge
10 Planning for the milieu of older people in a post-disaster environment 111
Kenichi Tanoue
11 Older people’s use of outdoor spaces and factors that influence place
selection: a survey of old urban communities in Nanjing, China 126
Li Xiang-Feng, Zhang Meng, Li Xiao-Ming and Fan Hao

PART III POLICY
12 A review of ageing in place: policies and initiatives in Hong Kong since 2010 139
Ernest Wing-Tak Chui
13 Ageing in multigenerational households: the case of Australia 153
Edgar Liu
14 From vicious to virtuous: repositioning New Zealand’s housing to
sustain better later lives 165
Kay Saville-Smith
15 Ageing and the concept of fair housing in the Japanese context 180
Yasushi Sukenari
16 Conclusion: ageing in place, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives 194
Edgar Liu and Bruce Judd

Index 196