National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

Foreign Scholar Lecture Series

"International Seminar on the Living Standard and Housing of Elderly Comparing Australia and Japan"

National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS) is pleased to present the following seminar. Those interested in poverty, elderly, housing and comparative study of Japan and Australia are welcome to attend the seminar.


Date and time: 13:00 - 17:00, July 11th (Friday), 2014

Place: IPSS Meeting Room No.4 & 5, 6th floor, Hibiya Kokusai Building, 2-2-3 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo MAP
(TEL 03-3595-2984)


The Seminar is organized by: IPSS and Social Policy Research Center (SPRC) of University of New South Wales (Australia)

Program
13:00〜13:10 Welcome remarks Aya ABE (Director, Department of Empirical Social Security Research, IPSS)
13:10〜14:50 "Examining the impact of home ownership and health care provision on poverty among older Australians"
Peter SAUNDERS (Professor, SPRC) & Yuvisthi NAIDOO (Research Associate, SPRC)
"Poverty of Elderly Before and After Housing Cost: Comparing Australia and Japan"
Melissa WONG (Research Fellow, SPRC), Kuriko WATANABE (Researcher, IPSS) & Prof. Peter SAUNDERS (Professor, SPRC)
Comment Yoshihiro KANEKO (Advisory Officer for Policy Research Coordination, IPSS)
Discussion
14:50〜15:00 BREAK
15:00〜16:40 "The centrality of housing tenure: Further perspectives on the lives of older public and private renters in Australia"
Alan MORRIS (Associate Professor, The University of Technology, Sydney) & Yuvisthi NAIDOO (Research Associate, SPRC)
"Housing issues for Low-income Elderly in Japan" Yosuke HIRAYAMA (Professor, Kobe University)
Comment Aya ABE (Director, Department of Empirical Social Security Research, IPSS)
16:40〜16:55 General Discussion
16:55〜17:00 Closing Remarks



*This Seminar was a part of "Research on Poverty Studies" funded by the Ministry of Education Scientific Research Grant. The organizers acknowledge financial support from the Australia - Japan Foundation of the Australian Government.


*Presentation and discussion were given in English.


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