De Politieacademie heeft binnen het politiebestel de taak om wetenschappelijk onderzoek te verrichten en uit te besteden ten behoeve van de politie. Met ingang van 2015 is de strategische onderzoeksagenda voor de politie leidend voor dit onderzoek (Janssen & Venderbosch, 2014). De Politieacademie formuleert deze agenda met input van de Nationale Politie en wetenschappers en de minister van V&J stelt hem vast. De Politieacademie krijgt daarmee de verantwoordelijkheid voor de programmering van het onderzoek ten behoeve van de politie. Een belangrijk aspect van de zorg voor kwaliteit van het onderzoek is de doorwerking van politiekundige kennis in het politieonderwijs en de politiepraktijk. Om deze taak goed op zich te kunnen nemen wil de directeur Kennis & Onderzoek van de Politieacademie inzicht krijgen in de verschillende vormen van politiegerelateerd onderzoek in Nederland
At a time when the population is ageing and most people choose to live in their own home for as long as possible, it is important to consider various aspects of supportive and comfortable environments for housing. This study, conducted in South Australia, aims to provide information about the links between the type of housing in which older people live, the weather and occupants’ heating and cooling behaviours as well as their health and well-being. The study used a Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) system to survey 250 people aged 65 years and over who lived in their own home. The respondents were recruited from three regions representing the three climate zones in South Australia: semi-arid, warm temperate and temperate. The results show that while the majority of respondents reported being in good health, many lived in dwellings with minimal shading and no wall insulation and appeared to rely on the use of heaters and coolers to achieve thermally comfortable conditions. Concerns over the cost of heating and cooling were shared among the majority of respondents and particularly among people with low incomes. Findings from this study highlight the importance of providing information to older people, carers, designers and policy makers about the interrelationships between weather, housing design, heating and cooling behaviours, thermal comfort, energy use and health and well-being, in order to support older people to age in place independently and healthily. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.03.023 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvhoof1980/
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