A qualitative study has highlighted ontological approaches to aging-in-place for Indigenous peoples, as a strategy to decrease experiences of loneliness. Twenty residents of an urban papakāinga (a modern Māori age-friendly housing village) were interviewed for the study. Identified characteristics that enabled housing spaces to facilitate connection included haporitanga (opportunities for community and socialisation), āhurutanga (comfortable, safe spaces for movement and mobility focusing on the natural world), ūkaipōtanga (sense of sustenance and belonging), and tangihanga (culturally appropriate end of-life and afterlife care customs).
