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Pretty vacant: vacancy chains and extra care housing: stimulating local housing markets
- Authors:
- DAVIES Ken, CRAIG Louise
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This factsheet considers how the development of extra care housing can have a strategic impact on the better functioning of local housing markets by creating additional mobility within the market. The concept behind this approach is known as ‘vacancy chains’. In this factsheet, the vacancy chain concept is used to offer an insight into the role of extra care accommodation in freeing family homes, and in doing so, increasing flows within the wider housing market and ensuring more appropriate use of under-occupied accommodation. Descriptions are provided of a number of case studies across the country that have been successful in encouraging older households to move out of their current homes and thus releasing family homes back into the housing market. These case studies cover: a scheme commissioned specifically to free housing; a rural development; all rented extra care housing; a large scale development; a private sector development; and an urban development.
Worth fighting for: ten stories of ageism
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Thanks to recent legislation, age discrimination in the workplace is high on the agenda. But how does age discrimination impact on other aspects of older people's lives? Research on Age Discrimination (RoAD) talked to older people across the UK about everything from shopping to sexuality and hospitals to hairdressing to find out how others see them – and how they see themselves. Worth Fighting For: ten stories of ageism contains brief case studies that vividly illustrate why age discrimination in goods and services should be outlawed.
Why city living for people in later life chimes
- Authors:
- ELY Alex, SMISEK Peter
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 9
- Place of publication:
- London
This case study features Lifestory's (formerly PegasusLife) new retirement living development in Westminster, Chimes, in earshot of the bells of Westminster Abbey and Big Ben. Chimes is also one of a number of retirement living and extra care housing schemes shortlisted in the HAPPI category of the 2021 Housing Design Awards. The development is a stylish collection of 39 one- and two-bedroom apartments, designed in the form of a mansion block with four quarters and positioned to reflect Big Ben’s chime every quarter of an hour. It offers a contemporary take on a traditional mansion block with generous ceiling and window heights, shared amenities and architectural detailing. And architecturally, with Covid-19 in mind, the design standards and mansion block layout of the building create a place where social distancing will not diminish the quality of community. (Edited publisher abstract)
Behind the headlines: 'stuck in the middle' - self-funders in care homes
- Author:
- LOWE Stephen
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 8
- Place of publication:
- London
This short report looks at the experience of a growing numbers of older people who need to move into a care home and are having to pay their own way. It explains what this means in practice for older people and their families. It contains a sample, with names anonymised, from the 150+ calls Age UK’s information and advice line received in the year to April 2016, about extra charges and other contract terms relating to care homes the callers or their relatives and friends live in and pay for themselves. The case studies outlined in this report are organised around some broad themes: payments in advance; unexpected or arbitrary fee increases; paying for ‘extras’; relatives being asked to guarantee care home fees; relatives asked to agree not to approach the local authority when older people become eligible for local authority funding; giving notice; and hospital stays. The report uncovers the problems people face navigating a complex market and the difficult position they can find themselves in when terms change suddenly or in ways that they don’t think are fair. It also reveals the extent to which ‘self-funders’ are ultimately paying the price for a care system under severe pressure: on average they pay between £603 and £827 a week depending on the area, compared to councils paying between £421 and £624 a week. Furthermore, self-funders are still largely unprotected when it comes to being able to remain in their care home as they have no security of tenure and do not enjoy the protection of the Human Rights Act. The report calls on the Government to recognise the extent of the crisis in the care and support of older people and work with others to address it. The capacity of self-funders to go on cross-subsidising State funded care is not unlimited, nor is it fair to them or their families to expect them to do so at ever higher rates. (Edited publisher abstract)
Growing older together: an overview of collaborative forms of housing for older people
- Author:
- STEVENS Jon
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- London
This report looks at how collaborative models of service delivery for older people are now being widely adopted in the health and care sectors, and suggests the housing sector could do more to embrace this approach. It argues that the provision of housing for older people still being largely 'provider led'. Drawing on a selection of nine case examples, the report looks at a range of resident-led and community based housing for older people across the country. The examples emphasise that collaborative housing schemes can be produced in a variety of ways from self-organised schemes through co-produced options to market (off-the shelf) developments promoted by specialist developers and providers. The report then outlines some issues that need to be addressed to promote and develop collaborative housing for older people. (Edited publisher abstract)
Behind the headlines: are older people and their families really to blame when their hospital discharges are delayed?
- Authors:
- ISDEN Ruthe, et al
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 8
- Place of publication:
- London
Short report which explores the complexities around hospital discharge and the difficult situations often facing older people and their families when no follow-up support is available. It draws on real-life case studies to explain how difficult it can be for older people to make a smooth transition out of hospital and highlights the pressure many hospitals and councils now are under. Problems identified include: older people being discharged from hospital without being offered help to organise support at home; friends and neighbours offering to provide temporary support and being put under pressure when no follow up support is available; older people being sent home without the right support in place and facing the risk of hospital readmission; older people having to fund their own intermediate or reablement services; and families being under pressure to accept packages of support they do not feel are in their best interests. (Edited publisher abstract)
Strategic housing market assessment: housing with care for older people in Kent
- Author:
- PARR Kerry
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
This case study by the Kent Housing Group (KHG) reports on the findings from a 'Future of Older Persons Housing' stakeholder workshop held in 2014 to explore the barriers to delivering specialist housing for older people. The document identifies the benefits of specialist housing, specifically housing with care; examines why provision has not expanded; and identifies possible solutions. It also looks at how to influence national, regional, and local bodies, such as the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP), to attract inward investment - especially where housing for older people can stimulate the wider housing economy and growth plans. (Original abstract)
Researching telecare use using everyday life analysis: introducing the AKTIVE working papers: AKTIVE working paper 1
- Author:
- YEANDLE Sue
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The AKTIVE Working Paper series, of which this paper is an introduction, comprises papers outlining the results of the AKTIVE research project. Focusing on older people living at home with different types of frailty, the project aimed both to enhance understanding of how they (and those supporting them) accessed, engaged with and used the telecare equipment supplied to them, and to explore the consequences for them of doing so. This paper briefly describes the two telecare services studied, in Leeds and Oxfordshire, providing a context in which some of the differences seen in research participants’ experiences and reactions can be understood. It describes the 60 frail older people included in the everyday life analysis (ELA) sample, a key source of information and data for the project, including their personal characteristics, their living situations and family circumstances, their health situations at the start of the study and some of the changes they experienced during the research contact. Finally, it describes the different types and combinations of telecare equipment in place in the ELA households. All papers in the AKTIVE Working Paper series draw on the ELA research findings, and each indicates which AKTIVE research questions it addresses. (Edited publisher abstract)
Co-production involving and led by older people: an evidence and practice review
- Authors:
- BROWN Helen, RAINES Tom
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 34
- Place of publication:
- Bath
This report pulls together the evidence, outcomes and key characteristics of effective co-production involving older people. It explores: the current contexts and drivers for co-production across the UK; examines the concepts and definitions associated with co-production; offers some guiding principles and practice; summarises the evidence for co-production involving older people and what can be achieved as a result; and provides practical examples that people can use in their own work and in their local areas. It draws on work from the Wisdom in Practice initiative in Scotland which reviewed evidence and examples of co-production involving and led by older people. (Edited publisher abstract)
A review and summary of the impact of malnutrition in older people and the reported costs and benefits of interventions
- Author:
- WILSON Lisa
- Publisher:
- Malnutrition Task Force
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 30
- Place of publication:
- London
Malnutrition is one of the key issues affecting the health of older people in the UK, yet it remains under-detected, under-treated and under-resourced and often over looked by those working with and for older people. This report puts the financial case for the prevention and early treatment of malnutrition. In support, the author summarises the findings from recent studies and research on the economic cost of malnutrition in the UK; the costs to health and social care, and to individuals; evidence of cost savings; and interventions to prevent and treat malnutrition. Also discussed is the economic value of voluntary initiatives such as the Food Train in Dumfries and Age UK Oldham's shopping support service; also the role of community meals services. (Original abstract)