Table 2 Synthesis of implications based on four empirical studies
Type of implication | Low pension | Deprived neighbourhoods | Critical incidents | Housing experiment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Legislation and regulations | - Provide grants to incentivize moves from one-family housing to apartments - Change of the proportions pension—housing allowance | - Regulate small housing companies similarly to existing regulation of public housing companies | - Change work environment legislation and related insurances - Attention to good men and their tasks to prevent conflicts with family members | - Inventory of environmental barriers useful to enforce housing companies’ certification of accessibility - Adhere to accessibility requirements for residential care facilities |
Financial institution strategies | - Provide mortgages, despite low income - Inform older adults about “smart strategies” regarding amortizing | - Information about whether a dwelling is accessible or not could be useful for banks when providing loans | ||
Housing and neighbourhood development | - Public transport development - Scale up good examples - Develop social meeting places, potentially compensating for needs of larger dwellings - Build more cheaper dwellings - Adapt existing housing rather than building new | - Collect information about residents’ attitudes and experiences to inform architectural planning - Use findings to inform planning, in all kinds of neighbourhoods - Develop strategies for neighbourhood development that do not lead to higher rents - Develop novel housing and tenure alternatives - Strive for neighbourhood integration, counteracting black painting of areas | - Provide digital services included in rents | - Develop housing that responds to demographic change - Make use of data on accessibility to inform construction, retrofits and refurbishment |
Education and training | - Housing company staff, landlords and property managers need knowledge and skills to support older tenants and act as a bridge to public authorities | - Data on accessibility can be used for education targeting actors in the housing sector | ||
Communicating with a diversity of stakeholders | - Senior citizens’ organisations can make use of findings for lobbying - Provide politicians with pictures and stories illustrating real-world contexts - Engage with politicians to elicit new ideas, e.g., about sharing economy, collective solutions - Realise older adults as a resource | - Senior citizens’ organisations can make use of findings to exert pressure on municipalities | - Make use of housing company staff as a bridge to municipal support for older adults - Develop back-up function for staff and tenants in housing companies - Highlight and act on the responsibility gap between authorities, companies, and individuals - Incentivize tech companies to provide integrated digital solutions | - Make the app even shorter, to attract municipalities, insurance companies, brokers and builders to inventory accessibility - Approach stakeholders to make advertisements within the app, to support financing it - Involve additional interest organisations |
Communicating with the public | - Economic planning for later life is a necessity - Information campaigns about economy strategies | - Elicit media attention based on stories about real-world contexts | - Release the app for public use to support housing decisions | |
Involving older adults as a resource | - Design public efforts to make it possible to providing rather than receiving support - Introduce rent discounts for tenants providing support to neighbours | - Involve older adults in school and integration projects - Utilize municipal senior citizens’ councils more, for prevention | - Elicit public interest for accessible housing in the prospect of old age |