14 Design for wellbeing
An applied approach to housing in later life
An-Sofie Smetcoren, Liesbeth De Donder and Dominique Verté
Introduction
Demographic ageing within the European Union is likely to be of major significance in the coming decades. Increasing life expectancies and decreasing birth rates are reshaping the age pyramids of EU member states towards an older population structure (Eurostat, 2018). These demographic projections together with rapid changes in society (e.g., migration, globalisation, changing family structures) will have a significant impact on our housing sector, posing various challenges for future housing policies (Pittini & Laino, 2011). Both within recent housing policies as well as gerontological research, there ...
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