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Winners and losers: sheltered housing and floating support
- Author:
- OLDMAN Joe
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 11(4), December 2008, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
One of the cornerstones of social housing is tenant participation. Changes to service delivery are subject to genuine consultation with the people it affects. This, the article argues, ahs been forgotten in the rush to introduce floating support. Referring to current research that Help the Aged is undertaking based on tenants concerns, this article outlines the issues, arguments and questions that prompted Help the Aged commissioned research, and why it was decided to select a specific focus based on the views and experiences of older people themselves.
Winners and losers: sheltered housing and floating support
- Author:
- OLDMAN Joe
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 12(1), March 2008, pp.34-37.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In 2007, Help the Aged commissioned a research study to look at floating support services and sheltered housing. The research was prompted by an increasing number of older people living in sheltered accommodation who were complaining about the withdrawal or dilution of housing support services within their scheme. Some were angry about the removal of residential wardens and felt that replacement with floating support was inadequate. This article outlines the issues, arguments and questions that prompted the research and why it was decided to focus the research on the views and experiences of older people themselves. The author highlights the importance of tenant participation and genuine consultation if services are to change.
Housing choice for older people: a discussion paper
- Author:
- OLDMAN Joe
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This discussion paper gives an overview of some of the current policy issues impacting on older people's housing in England: the diversity of housing needs, and housing options. Part 3, Finding solutions, first examines the extent to which strategic planning and policies such as Supporting People (SP) and the Decent Homes Standard deliver results. The role of co-ordinating housing advice and information is considered in the context, for example, of HOPDEV (the Housing and Older People Development Group), Link-Age, the Single Assessment Process (SAP), Home Improvement Agencies ((HIA), and Housing Options for Older People (HOOP).
Housing in later life
- Author:
- OLDMAN Joe
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 43
- Place of publication:
- London
This report outlines some of the challenges and opportunities for older people’s housing with recommendations for action. It argues that while current reforms to the care system offer an opportunity to encourage better ways of integrating housing with flexible forms of care and support it is still too difficult to get simple home adaptations or repairs carried out quickly and affordably. Not enough of the right type of retirement housing is built to tempt older people who might wish to downsize. Many of the options that do exist are only available to a relatively small section of the older population. The reports discusses in some detail the key challenges around promoting independence with accessible and adaptable homes, tackling poor conditions and delivering decent homes, integrating housing with health and social care, sheltered and retirement housing and housing wealth and housing choices. The report makes a comprehensive series of recommendations, calling for all new mainstream and specialised housing to automatically comply with higher accessibility standards and for all older patients coming into contact with health care services to be offered an assessment of their home with an action plan to ensure it facilitates the delivery of appropriate care and support. (Edited publisher abstract)