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The market for extra care housing: a report for Mears Group
- Author:
- HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 15
- Place of publication:
- London
This report, commissioned by the Mears Group, provides a review of the potential future demand for extra care housing for older people. It covers the policy and funding context in relation to specialist housing for older people; the current supply of older people’s housing and extra care housing in England, Scotland and Wales, identifying areas of relative under supply; and the implications of commissioner practice for extra care housing. The review found relatively limited UK Government policy in relation to supported and older people’s housing over the last 10 years. The retirement housing sector in the UK is modest in size, but has scope for significant growth due to predicted demographic change, with the fastest growing age group predicted to be people over 65 and over. (Edited publisher abstract)
Age-friendly housing: a list of further reading
- Authors:
- BERNSTEIN Levitt, HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- RIBA Publishing
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 13
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
A list recent resources and publications on age-friendly housing. Links to the full text of resources are included, where available. (Edited publisher abstract)
Growing older together: the development and promotion of resident-led models of housing with care for older people: a programme of work being undertaken by the Housing LIN (Learning and Improvement Network)
- Author:
- HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice briefing outlines the work being undertaken to capture examples of practice of resident-led housing for older people, building on the 2013 report ‘Growing older together: the case for housing that is shaped and controlled by older people’. This key area of work recognises that there is a need to increase the supply of housing suitable for older people and ensure that the offer of new housing options and choices prove attractive to a new generation of older people with changing priorities and higher expectations. The work programme will comprise several elements, including: an overall report, covering a broad range of examples; liaison with community-led housing organisations, older people’s representative forums/networks and other interested parties; and a spring conference for 2016. (Edited publisher abstract)
Design and cost considerations in extra care housing
- Authors:
- HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK, et al
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
This report aims to demonstrate that with careful consideration and the right tools, including useful new cost modelling, extra care will remain a viable and sustainable housing with care choice for residents, commissioners and funders, operators and developers. The key challenge for anyone charged with delivering extra care housing is to create attractive, affordable homes so that people can make a positive choice for later life, rather than face being admitted at a point of crisis. Also known as assisted living, housing with flexi-care and supported housing, extra care housing is self-contained homes with design and support features to enable independent living. Developments are most often built in the form of apartments accessed from a corridor in a single building, but they can also be bungalows or houses. They also have shared communal facilities – the key factor that differentiates them from sheltered housing or retirement housing is the provision of 24-hour care staff on site. The document covers design aspects; trends in the development of extra care housing; considerations when converting sheltered housing to extra care housing; planning policy; considerations for infection control; and cost modelling. One of the core messages in this report is that extra care environments cannot simply be built using a ‘one-size fits all’ approach. In addition, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, fire safety and fire protection following Grenfell, and residents’ wider health and social care determinants all need to be learned quickly, to safeguard public confidence in extra care housing. (Edited publisher abstract)
Improving health and wellbeing through housing: a High Impact Change Model
- Authors:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION, HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 22
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource aims to support local care, health, and housing partners to work together to deliver the range of housing that is most effective in enabling older people and other people with health and care needs to live independently and to shape local housing markets and services to achieve this. The model encourages local partners to integrate housing delivery with local health and care commissioning and service provision. This is important because: housing is an important determinant of health - substandard housing is a cause of health inequalities; ensuring people have good housing can help to delay or reduce a person's need for health and care services in the future and help them retain their independence, health and wellbeing for longer; it is estimated that the cost of poor housing to NHS is £1.4 billion per year - the actions in this model can help reduce the cost of poor housing to the NHS. The model recognises that the majority of people are seeking to remain living in their existing homes as they get older, but this will not always be possible for everyone. It also recognises that there are people who may want to move to a more suitable home, but there are often limited housing choices available. It identifies the key housing-related actions and activities that will successfully enable older people and other people with health and care needs to live independently for as long as possible. (Edited publisher abstract)
Shining a spotlight on the hidden housing market: a report looking into redefining and rejuvenating the later living sector
- Authors:
- SHAKESPEARE MARTINEAU, HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publishers:
- Shakespeare Martineau, Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- London
Findings of a survey focusing on the later living market. The 200 survey respondents came from a variety of backgrounds, and included local authorities, registered providers, private developers, care operators and businesses in the charity and voluntary sector, as well as architects and designers. The days of housing for older people being limited to residential care and sheltered housing are over and around the world there are innovative, appropriate and considered alternatives to these isolated models. The report finds that later living provision has a key role to play in alleviating the housing crisis, with the majority (97 per cent) of respondents agreeing that a more strategic, planned and ambitious approach to later living is essential going forward. The UK later living sector has the potential to change the way age-friendly housing and homes are approached across the board. The survey findings indicate that the demand for later living accommodation is only going to increase over the coming years, but in order to achieve that, radical changes need to be made. A united front is essential in enacting this change and a coalition of all stakeholders, from trade and professional networks, registered providers, and local authorities, to private developers, architects and other businesses operating in the sector, must harness their combined energies to call with a singular voice and demonstrate the benefit that investment in later living will bring. (Edited publisher abstract)
Coronavirus (COVID-19): supporting residents in retirement housing and extra care housing who experience loneliness. An A-Z of examples
- Author:
- HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing highlights how the retirement, sheltered and extra care housing sectors are working closely with extremely vulnerable residents who experience loneliness during the COVID-19 lockdown. It sets out who is deemed extremely vulnerable and, in the light of Government guidance, has been on shielding – for these people, the period of isolation, alone or with one companion, has led to increasing stress, anxiety and loneliness. The briefing captures an A-Z of creative ways in which operators have organised activities to combat loneliness and foster greater connectedness amongst residents within schemes and/or the wider community, including acts of acts of kindness. (Edited publisher abstract)
Housing: getting people home from hospital
- Authors:
- HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK, FOUNDATIONS
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Place of publication:
- London
An interactive map, developed by Foundations and the Housing LIN, which highlights examples of where housing organisations and services are, or have been actively supporting hospital discharges and helping to get people home. The services break down into four categories: Co-located / embedded caseworkers (often within hospital discharge teams), linked to a community-based handyperson’s service to deliver practical support in the home; Co-located / embedded housing support, focused on providing assessment and holistic community navigation, based within a hospital discharge team; Community-based practical housing support, including handyperson’s services, focused on preventing admissions to hospital as well as supporting patients in transition and on their return home; and, Step down beds and apartments provided within a housing setting, to enable prompt hospital discharge before a patient is ready to return home. The map also displays NHS England-reported data showing the number of delayed discharges of care from hospital arising from housing issues across England for the period between January and December 2017. (Edited publisher abstract)
Putting older people first in the North West: a whole system approach to meeting housing, health and wellbeing outcomes for our older populations in North West England
- Author:
- HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 21
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out the challenges faced by those involved in the housing, health and care of older people in the North West between now and 2030 and provides examples of initiatives practice show how services can help to meet these challenges while delivering better outcomes and efficiencies. The paper summarises some of the key characteristics of older people in the North West and how these are expected to change between now and 2030. It also highlights the implications of the increasing numbers of older people in need of care and support for services and the workforce. The paper shows how housing and housing-related services can make a significant contribution to emerging models of integrated health and social care services and can play an important part in maintaining the independence of older people. Innovative local examples of practice include: social prescribing; telecare; home improvements and adaptations to prevent hospital admissions; extra care housing; and early supported discharge teams. (Edited publisher abstract)
Going digital: living better for less with technology-enabled housing
- Authors:
- ADASS. Housing Policy Network, LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION, HOUSING LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2017
An online toolkit providing information for professionals working in adult social care on the area of technology enabled housing. It looks at the connection between technology and home care and support and the benefits of investing in the right technological infrastructure. Sections cover why it is important to adopt digital solutions; how digital technology can support policy and commissioning objectives; technical considerations to getting better connected digitally; and making the case for the benefits of technologically-enabled housing. Each section contains a series of questions that set out how services might get better connected digitally and provides links to useful resources. A series of case studies also highlight the use of technology enabled housing in the areas of prevention; rehabilitation and reablement; long term support and support for people with complex needs. Although focused on adult social services, the resource will also be of interest to a wider network across health, housing and social care. It is intended that the resource will be updated on a regular basis. (Edited publisher abstract)