Title: Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Communities
1Intergenerational Change in Western Australian
communities what are the issues?
Professor Daniela Stehlik
2OVERVIEW
- Setting the scene
- Imagining the future
- Meanings of place
- Seeking utopia?
- Signposts for policy and practice
3Setting the Scene
- Pre 1985
- 1985 - 1995
- 1995 - 2005
- Post 2005
Imagining the future
Who are the baby boomers? Where will they want to
live? How will they want to live? What resources
will they bring? Or not?
4Meanings of place
- Linked to identity and sense of belonging
- Enabling environments?
- Desirable/undesirable users of place
- Used as place management in policy
- Marketing tool
5Seeking utopia?
- Searching for place in quality of life -
seachange/treechange - Ageing in place meaning ???
- The Balingup experience
- Lessons learned
6Signposts for future policy practice
- Place management - not well understood
- Purchaser/provider split - now in its second
generation - Content free management
- Reflective questions ..
7Thank you
For Further Information
Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger
Communities Curtin University of
Technology Level 2, Chancellory Building (100
East wing) GPO Box U1987 Perth Western Australia
6854 Tel 61 (0) 8 9266 3248 Fax 61 (0) 8
9266 3793 http//strongercommunities.curtin.edu.a
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