Housing
Paul Keogh
Chair Construct Innovate, A. Professor DCU Business School - Consultant Family Business, Sport, Lifestyle, Drinks, Construction & Retail, Founder Elder Lemons, Best Selling Author, INED- Innovate Kildare, DCUET, Investor
There are many dimensions to planning housing needs for the future. We hear a great deal about social and affordable housing. We need to broaden the planning of future housing, to include housing for people with disabilities (both physical and intellectual) and age-friendly housing.
As our population ages, many people are stuck in houses that are too big for them. They want to stay in that neighbourhood but there are no houses to downsize into. Ideally, families should be moving into these houses and the elder lemons should move into age-friendly housing.
One in six people worldwide will be over 65 by 2050. This figure will be higher in Europe and North America.
City planners, healthcare providers and property developers will need to be incorporating housing that is designed for the elderly. This does not mean "nursing homes" but homes specially designed for active ageing so that the elderly can still live independently, close to shops, transport and their friends.
In the same way, housing needs to be developed for our population with disabilities both mental and physical. They too need to live in their community and health care providers must provide services to them in their homes. They may live in a type of community but not an institution.
Government agencies need to lead on age-friendly housing and make this a reality for our ageing population.
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10 个月Excelent initiative Paul. We need more flexibility with densities to allow for more single storey homes that can be part of a wider community.