Housing Implications of Individual Budget Home Care Models for Older Renters: An Australian Case Study

ABSTRACT

Policies and programs relating to successful aging in place are premised on the fact that older people's housing is stable and suitable. Home-based aged care delivery models such as individual budgets aim to deliver increased service flexibility, choice, and control for consumers. Little attention has been paid to the consequences of such models for older renters, who often have less stable housing and restricted rights to modify their accommodation. This article reports on a project in Australia that explored the delivery and receipt of individual budget style models of home-based aged care services to older renters.

KEYWORDS:

• Individual budgets
• in-home care
• older renters
• Australia
• housing

Conflict of interest

None.

Acknowledgments

Thanks go to the following for providing comments on the article: Alice Clarke, Emma Baker, Jane Mussared, and Geoff Slack.

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Funding

The author thanks the Australian Housing Urban and Research Institute (AHURI) for co-funding salary for her Postdoctoral Research Fellow position. The AHURI has no role in the design, execution, analysis, or interpretation of the study and associated data.