Ageing in Place (AIP) is a key component of housing welfare for the elderly. Helping seniors to ‘age in place’ at home where they have stayed is expected to improve the life quality of the elderly and reduce the social cost of elderly facility, healthcare, and welfare deliverly.

The purpose of this study is to provide policy recommendations for community-based housing model for seniors in Korea. With respect of AIP, main research interest focused on question to ‘where’ rather than ‘how’ which pervious studies have proposed. This study analyzed the migration pattern of elderly and non-elderly population, and case study in Korea and foreign countries including Japan, UK, and U.S. Findings show that migration affects population structure and characteristics of elderly population at local level. Based on findings of migration analysis and case study, this study recommend three localized community-based housing models for seniors: 1) depopulated old town model, 2) apartment complex based new town model, 3) and rural model.