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Village people
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.05.05, 2005, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Despite government backing, care villages still stir opposition from locals. Looks at how a retirement village in Milton Keynes gained approval.
Age-restricted housing in the UK - retirement villages in context
- Authors:
- LOCK Iain, WHITTINGTON Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 1(1), September 2006, pp.51-65.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reviews the extra care homes and retirement villages' markets in the UK, and assesses possible future demand for, and supply of, age-restricted housing provision.
Making it work for us: a residents' inquiry into sheltered and retirement housing
- Author:
- AGE UK
- Publisher:
- Age UK
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is designed to encourage wider policy engagement with older residents on the management and future delivery of sheltered and retirement housing in England. It sets out issues for providers, commissioners, policymakers and central government, from a resident’s perspective. It seeks to support the development of a coherent, balanced national strategy on retirement housing, where older people have real influence. The panel of residents, who reviewed the situation for England, concluded that we need greater investment in affordable, attractive housing options – integrated with housing support services and in the right locations. The panel believes that progress towards this goal is being impeded by a range of factors, identified during the inquiry and set out in this report.
Models of very sheltered housing: rethinking housing for older people
- Author:
- KING Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 4(3), August 2001, pp.22-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This year's Reith lectures focused on older people and questioned the inevitability of the ageing process. One lecture was to an audience of older people living in an 'extra care' scheme focused on activity and health - 'adding life to years'. In a specially commissioned series of articles, the author explains how extra care models and new 'retirement communities' are becoming an alternative to residential care and traditional sheltered housing. The first offers a typology for extra care. The second will be about modelling the care services, and the third on land and building development issues.
Understanding supply, demand and investment in the market for retirement housing communities in England
- Authors:
- STIRLING Phoebe, BURGESS Gemma
- Publisher:
- University of Cambridge
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 59
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
The aim of this report is to review the existing evidence to provide an understanding of supply, demand and investment in the market for retirement housing communities in England. The supply of specialised housing for people as they age is relatively low in the UK. This report identifies numerous constraints to supply, investment and demand in the market for specialised housing for older people, and for retirement living communities in particular, and makes a number of recommendations. A notable point about supply identified in this report is that retirement living community development is unviable in many areas outside of London and the South East of England. Due to a range of supply, demand and investment factors, those most likely to be able to access specialised housing when moving are social renters and wealthier home owners. Home owners with modest access to wealth have far fewer options, should they wish to consider moving to specialised housing in later life. The market for retirement housing also faces numerous viability constraints. The development of retirement housing is more costly than the development of general needs housing, making it harder to compete with other developers when bidding for land. On the demand side, numerous barriers exist that could deter people otherwise interested in retirement living from moving. These barriers include financial constraints related to the cost of specialised housing, the fees and charges associated with retirement housing, the cost (and practicalities) of moving in later life, and concerns around implications for inheritance. The leasehold nature of much retirement housing may act as a deterrent to moving for people considering selling their existing home. The report makes a number of recommendations that may help to reduce the numerous constraints to supply, investment and demand in the market for specialised housing for older people, and for retirement living communities in particular. (Edited publisher abstract)
Housing choices discussion paper 2: a proposed typology of housing and support options
- Authors:
- HARFLETT Naomi, et al
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 8
- Place of publication:
- Bath
This paper identifies, categorises and briefly describes the housing options available for people with care or support needs who do not live with family. This typology has been developed following a desk-based search to scope all housing and support options for older people, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems. The range of options identified fall under the following main categories: mainstream renting, which include social renting; home ownership, which comprises matched home sharing schemes; designated shared housing (shared supported housing); supported placement (Shared Lives); clustered housing (sheltered housing, extra care, retirement villages); residential home (care homes); intentional communities (learning disability intentional communities); and charitable housing (almshouse, gifted housing). (Edited publisher abstract)
What's in a name? Similarities and differences in international terms and meanings for older peoples' housing with services
- Authors:
- HOWE Anna L., JONES Andrew E., TILSE Cheryl
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 33(4), 2013, pp.547-578.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The diversity of terms and meanings relating to housing with services for older people confounds systematic analysis, especially in international comparative research. This paper presents an analysis of over 90 terms identified in literature from the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand reporting types of housing with services under the umbrella of ‘service integrated housing’ (SIH), defined as all forms of accommodation built specifically for older people in which the housing provider takes responsibility for delivery of one or more types of support and care services. A small number of generic terms covering housing for people in later life, home and community care, and institutional care are reviewed first to define the scope of SIH. Review of the remainder identifies different terms applied to similar types of SIH, similar terms applied to different types, and different terms that distinguish different types. Terms are grouped into those covering SIH focused on lifestyle and recreation, those offering only support services, and those offering care as well as support. Considerable commonality is found in underlying forms of SIH, and common themes emerge in discussion of drivers of growth and diversification, formal policies and programmes, and symbolic meanings. In establishing more commonality than difference, clarification of terminology advances policy debate, programme development, research and knowledge transfer within and between countries. (Publisher abstract)
Older people's housing: choice, quality of life, and under-occupation
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
There are 7.3 million older households in England (households which contain no-one under the age of 55 years) in mainstream or specialist housing, excluding care homes. This paper summarises the findings from a research project which analysed data from sources including the English Housing Survey and the English House Condition Survey, and drew on 15 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders from private, public and voluntary sector organisations and on a literature review focusing on older people's views about their housing, care and support. The research investigated aspects of housing for older people, covering where older people live, choice for older people who want to move, supply of and demand for specialist housing, moving or staying, quality of life, moving home and the effect on under-occupation of households, and properties released as a result of moves or mortality. It concluded that the specialist housing currently on offer does not reflect the choices that most older people make.
Preventative care: the role of sheltered/retirement housing
- Author:
- LLOYD Peter
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This review examines the role of sheltered/retirement housing in the context of preventative care. It suggests that quality sheltered housing can contribute to preventative care and support, although it must clarify the definition and indicate more clearly the role that it performs. It should identify the type of persons who will benefit most from sheltered housing and who should therefore have priority in the allocation process, and justify the funding sought by sheltered housing. The review explores categories such as: demographic change and ageism; quality of life; is preventative care important?; preventative care defined; a check list of preventative care strategies; accountability and evidence; the needs of older people; what does sheltered housing offer?; how can sheltered housing prove its worth?; to whom should sheltered housing be offered?; who pays for preventative care?; and the impact of changes within sheltered housing. The review concludes that older people are entitled to a good quality of life, and preventative care embraces the means by which a good quality of life may be achieved.
Viewpoint on downsizing for older people into specialist accommodation
- Author:
- SUTHERLAND Janet
- Publisher:
- DH Care Networks. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This viewpoint makes the case for encouraging more housing providers to create attractive specialist schemes for older people, and for encouraging more people to move into them. This is the second of 2 viewpoints on downsizing; the first one provides a more general outline of the advantages both to individuals and society if more people were to downsize, and considers how to encourage and help people to do so. This viewpoint considers the challenges and the opportunities faced currently in delivering a programme of specialist accommodation, providing a wider range of new schemes to meet current and future needs, and of funding improvements to existing schemes. It particularly considers the following models of specialist housing: sheltered accommodation; Extra Care housing; and retirement villages. Issues regarding the affordability of care and support are also discussed, including the releasing of assets to fund care. The document concludes that the under provision of suitable housing for older people must be tackled urgently. Developers and house builders must be engaged with to ensure that they are fully aware of the market opportunity that 50% household growth in the retirement housing sector brings, and particularly to attract more in to provide for the middle and lower equity market.