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Findings from housing with care research: practice examples
- Authors:
- BLOOD Imogen, PANELL Jenny, COPEMAN Ian
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report draws together practical examples of ways of working from two reports: “Boundaries of roles and responsibilities in housing with care” and “Affordability, choices and quality of life in housing with care”. It highlights ways of working in different housing with care schemes, drawing on the two studies and considering their implications in very practical terms. The practice guide is aimed at people managing frontline housing with care schemes, commissioners and senior managers in housing organisations, social services and health, and frontline staff, older people and their relatives. The practice guide: identifies five key topics in housing with care which could benefit from improvement; summarises what older people and their relatives say they value in housing with care; and presents practical examples.
Home from hospital: how housing services are relieving pressures on the NHS
- Authors:
- COPEMAN Ian, EDWARDS Margaret, PORTEUS Jeremy, HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- National Housing Federation
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- London
This report shows how housing services are helping to relieve pressure on the NHS by reducing delays in discharging people from hospital and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. It features 12 case studies to show the positive impact these services have on people’s lives and the cost benefit to the NHS. The case studies highlight services that will benefit people most at risk of delayed discharge, such as older people, people with mental health problems and people experiencing homelessness. The case studies also demonstrate a diversity of housing and health services including: 'step down' bed services for people coming out of hospital who cannot return to their own home immediately; hospital discharge support and housing adaptation services to enable timely and appropriate transfers out of hospital and back to patients' existing homes; providing a new home for people whose existing home or lack of housing mean that they have nowhere suitable to be discharged to; and Home from Hospital services to keeping people well at home who would otherwise be at risk of being admitted or readmitted to hospital. The report also considers the impact and additional savings that could be made by housing providers if this work were to be scaled up. (Edited publisher abstract)