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Housing's wider role
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.9.01, 2001, pp.iv-vi.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government's Supporting People programme aims to improve services for people in sheltered and supported housing. Looks at its effects on four projects caring for vulnerable people.
Sheltered housing for the future: is it an asset or a liability?
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Melinda
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 1(2), May 1998, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Sheltered housing for older people will have to change, as the principles of a 'home for life' and the invisibility of housing and care take hold. Argues that 'Remodelling' accommodation can be the basis of an approach that can ensure that sheltered housing continues to be an asset, not a liability, well into the next century, as part of the social care framework.
Walking on Eire
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.12.97, 1997, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The need for cultural sensitive services for people from ethnic minorities has been widely accepted, with one glaring omission. Reports on a visit to a sheltered housing scheme which aims to meet the often unrecognised needs of Irish people.
Helping elderly tenants of Housing Associations to stay in their own homes
- Authors:
- CLARK Heather, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Applied Community Studies, 1(1), 1992, pp.23-28.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Reports on a survey carried out by two Housing Associations in Liverpool into the needs of their elderly tenants.
How to assist residents with sight loss in your home
- Author:
- CATTAN Mima
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing and Residential Care, 13(2), February 2011, pp.91-93.
- Publisher:
- MA Healthcare Ltd.
- Place of publication:
- London
In-depth interviews with 24 older people aged 72-102 living in care homes and sheltered housing were conducted to investigate their specific needs. Reduced mobility and difficulties in carrying out every day activities were highlighted. Drawing on the findings, the author looks at how care homes can help residents with sight loss.
A view of the future: the experience of living in extracare
- Author:
- BARTHOLOMEOU Joanna
- Publisher:
- Hanover Housing Group
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 64p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Staines
Research study evaluating the experiences of older people in extraCare housing. extraCare provides housing for older people who want to live in sheltered housing and maintain an independent lifestyle, but who have additional care needs. The study is based on interviews with users, estate managers and social services staff.
Anchor care team: an appraisal
- Authors:
- GIBBS Ian, WRIGHT Ken
- Publisher:
- Anchor Housing Trust
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 36p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
An appraisal of the work of the Anchor Care Team working in a sheltered housing scheme in Newcastle. Includes an appendix on the Guttman Scaling Technique for assessing older people.
Very sheltered housing: proceedings of an ageing update conference held on 17th May 1991 at International Student's House, London
- Editor:
- MORTON Jane
- Publisher:
- Age Concern Institute of Gerontology
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains papers on the place of very sheltered housing in the housing and care needs of older people, and an evaluation of such housing. Goes on to look at specific schemes and how they work.
Valuing retirement housing: exploring the economic effects of specialist housing for older people
- Author:
- LLOYD James
- Publisher:
- Strategic Society Centre
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 30
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on available data and evidence, this report provides an analysis of the economic effects of developing more specialist and retirement housing for older people. To set the context, the report provides data to describe the numbers of older homeowners across the UK, and their living situation. It then considers the potential of specialist housing to influence the health and care costs of older people. It looks both the prevention of need, for example from a reduction in falls, use of home care or residential care; and a reduction in entitlement to local authority funded services. It argues that the development of new retirement housing would also have an effect on housing supply for the wider population, enabling younger people to purchase property and increasing their ability to fund their housing and care costs during retirement. Drawing on drawing on social survey, administrative and population data, the report suggests that one new retirement housing unit occupied by one person for at least 10 years, could potential result in total savings of around £83,100. This includes £9,700 savings in health and care needs and £18,600 saving in local authority social care entitlement. Using these figures the report develops scenarios to explore savings across regions of England. (Edited publisher abstract)
The state of the nation's housing: an ICL-UK factpack
- Author:
- INTERNATIONAL LONGEVITY CENTRE UK
- Publisher:
- International Longevity Centre UK
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on an analysis of statistics and data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the English Housing Survey, this report looks at housing market in the context of an ageing population. It aims help future planning through the development of a better understanding of the current state of UK housing and anticipating the drivers of change. The report presents figures on the current housing market, with differences in supply and demand; looks at the quality of UK housing, including levels of overcrowding and under-occupancy; and at the future forecast of housing to meet population needs. The report highlights the increasing numbers of older people who will require housing adaptations in the future. It also finds a lack of specialist retirement and extra care homes in England, and estimates a gap of 160,000 homes by 2030 based on current trends. The report then sets out five priorities to ensure that the housing market in England will be fit for the future: investment in the housing needs of older people; greater planning by central government to meet local needs; supporting future affordability and suitability of rented accommodation; ensuring enough homes have effective home adaptations; and new purpose-built housing stock to meet the needs of an older population. (Edited publisher abstract)