Highlights
Research finds that about 400,000 women aged 45 or older in Australia are at risk of homelessness
Older women are more likely to be at risk of homelessness if they are an immigrant from a non-English-speaking country and live in a lone-person household
While it’s common for elderly Chinese people to take care of themselves in their home country, in their new environment, their independence is constrained and some show reluctance to depend on their family
For adult children of late-life Chinese migrants, seeing a parent at the front of a soup kitchen queue could come as a shock.
Attending such services could imply that the children are not doing what is expected of them in Chinese culture.