Soebarto, V.Williamson, T.Visvanathan, R.Pisaniello, D.Arakawa Martins, L.2025-05-222025-05-222024Proceedings of the 56th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA 2023) : Sustainability and Health: the nexus of carbon neutral architecture and well-being, 2024, pp.374-389978-0-9923835-9-62209-3850https://hdl.handle.net/2440/144654This research aims to gather information about existing house conditions of low socio-economic older people in South Australia including of those from culturally and linguistically diverse groups, in order to advance knowledge about resilient and affordable older people, s housing. The first stage includes focus group discussions, which so far have involved more than, older people and were conducted in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. The second stage involves collecting relevant data of, older occupants who participate in indoor environmental monitoring and occupant surveys, through interviews as well as frailty level assessments using validated tools. Environmental data loggers have been installed to record indoor and outdoor dry bulb temperatures, indoor globe temperatures, relative humidity, air velocity as well as indoor and outdoor CO, concentration, every, minutes. Thermal image camera and blower door tests are used to detect sources of air leakage and calculate infiltration rates in selected homes. In the third stage, data collected will be analysed to develop improvement and new design strategies to improve wellbeing and reduce operational costs. This paper reports the preliminary results from the indoor environmental monitoring and occupant surveys. The results so far show significant differences between older participants identified to be frail and severely frail and those who are identified to be non-frail and vulnerable in terms of their thermal sensation, preference and satisfaction as well as the strategies they take to be comfortable. Lessons learned from these shall be considered in developing the relevant housing improvement strategies for the future.en© 2023 and published by The Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA).Older people; housing; thermal comfort; frailtyConference paper10.25909/259547652024-01-31683145Soebarto, V. [0000-0003-1397-8414]Visvanathan, R. [0000-0002-1303-9479]Pisaniello, D. [0000-0002-4156-0608]Arakawa Martins, L. [0000-0003-3224-8556]