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Meeting housing demand: 1st report of session 2021-22
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. House of Lords. Built Environment Committee
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 108
- Place of publication:
- London
This report investigates the demographic and other trends shaping demand for new housing and considers how barriers to meeting demand can be overcome. It sets out the key factors shaping housing demand, including demographic trends (Chapter 2) and the expected shifts in the housing type and tenures required to accommodate these changes (Chapter 3). It then considers what can be done to address the depletion of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) housebuilders (Chapter 4) and how hurdles to meeting housing demand can be addressed. The report looks at the planning system (Chapter 5) and local government (Chapter 6) and considers what could be done to ensure the right types of homes can be built where they are needed. The report makes recommendations on how skills shortages can be addressed in the construction, planning, design and other industries (Chapter 7). Finally, the report considers how to promote quality new builds and encourage good design (Chapter 8). Key points highlighted in the report include: SMEs should be supported by reducing planning risk, making more small sites available, and increasing access to finance; the country needs more specialist and mainstream housing suitable for the elderly; more up-to-date local plans are needed, and these need to be simpler, clearer, and more transparent; skills shortages must be addressed, through broadening the base of talent, upskilling and reskilling, including for the green skills needed to address climate change. Government must change its approach to spending on housing. Over time the money spent on housing benefit should be invested in increasing the social housing stock. Right to Buy schemes are not good value for money: increasing the housing supply would be a more effective use of funding. The report focusses on England, as housing policy and the planning system are devolved. (Edited publisher abstract)
Classifying discharge scenarios to improve understanding and care
- Author:
- HYSLOP Brent
- Journal article citation:
- Age and Ageing, 50(2), 2021, pp.358-361.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Hospital discharge planning is valuable in improving care and avoiding discharge delays. This is highly relevant to older people. Although usual discharge planning is now well understood and applicable to most patients, a range of different discharge scenarios exist that involve different considerations. These less common scenarios appear less well understood and can be challenging for clinical staff. To improve understanding and care, this Commentary suggests a basic classification of six discharge planning scenarios. These are: usual discharge planning, premature discharge, rehabilitation selection, safety concerns, reluctant discharge and delayed discharge. Clinical and system responses to each scenario are briefly discussed. This classification could potentially be useful in clinical education and quality improvement. (Edited publisher abstract)
Summary of built infrastructure for older people’s care in conditions of climate change (BIOPICCC): toolkit impact development
- Authors:
- WISTOW Jonathan, MAX Catherine, GUIDA Kristen
- Publisher:
- Adaptation and Resilience in the Context of Change
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
This briefing paper provides a summary of a project to strengthen and broaden the impact in national policy and local practice from the BIOPICCC toolkit and associated learning. The BIOPICCC project ran from November 2009 until October 2012 and aimed to develop a methodology for selecting locally sensitive, efficient adaptation strategies during the period up to 2050 to ensure that the infrastructures and health and social care systems supporting wellbeing of older people (i.e. those aged 65 and over) will be sufficiently resilient to withstand harmful impacts of climate change. A key output from BIOPICCC was a toolkit that provides a series of resources to assist local authorities, partner organisations, and neighbourhood and community groups with local level resilience planning. This briefing focuses in particular on the following key objectives of the project: sharing learning; leveraging good practice citations to promote and increase the use of the toolkit; ensuring the toolkit remains fit for purpose; and disseminating knowledge and learning. (Edited publisher abstract)
The strategy for older people in Wales 2008-2013: living longer living better
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This Strategy is the product of extensive consultation, research and expert views about the lives of older people in Wales both now and in the future. The aims, objectives and more detailed programmes and projects reflect the findings of the report of the Advisory Group ‘When I’m 64…..and more’ published in May 2002 and over 100 responses to it.
Making your money work for your future: boosting income, cutting costs and dealing with crises
- Author:
- LEWIS Paul
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 239p.
- Place of publication:
- London
It’s never too late to take charge of your finances - even if you’re in your 50s, and even if you’ve never got your head round them before. The older you are, the more important it is to start planning. And if you take action now, you’ll be well set up for the long life ahead of you.
Older people's housing: policy, performance and practice
- Author:
- NATIONAL HOUSING FEDERATION
- Publisher:
- National Housing Federation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In the last few years there has been an unprecedented level of interest across Government in Britain's ageing population and the challenges this presents for all aspects of society. One in three households living in social housing is headed by someone of pensionable age. Housing providers have to look at both the needs and aspirations of today's older population and at future markets.
Older people's housing strategies: addressing your older homeless population: draft version
- Author:
- COALITION ON OLDER HOMELESSNESS
- Publisher:
- Coalition on Older Homelessness
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Coalition on Older Homelessness has produced a draft paper aimed at local authorities to encourage them to include older homeless people in their strategic thinking.
Getting out and about: a practice guide for care settings
- Author:
- KNOCKER Sally
- Publisher:
- National Association of Providers of Activities
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Ideas on where to go and how to plan and prepare well various leisure activities for older people.
Older people's strategy 1998-2003: draft for consultation
- Authors:
- LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL, LIVERPOOL HEALTH AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Liverpool City Council/Liverpool Health Authority
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 126p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Draft consultation document outlining every aspect of Liverpool's older people's strategy up to the year 2003, and calling for input from all interested/involved organisations in the area.
Research and the local planning of services for elderly people: an interactive approach
- Author:
- NIES Henk
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 20(1), January 1992, pp.1-13.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Discusses the use of research in the service planning process, particularly in relation to needs assessment and local policy issues; presents a case study of research on services to elderly people needing nursing home care.