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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.
Nobody's listening: the impact of floating support on older people living in sheltered housing
- Authors:
- KING Nigel, PANNELL Jenny, COPEMAN Ian
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 91p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research report seeks to ascertain how support in sheltered housing is changing across England, paying special attention to the views of older people as tenants. It takes as its starting point the introduction of the 'Supporting People' regulations in 2003. It investigates the ways in which the provision of residential warden services for sheltered housing are being replaced by care workers acting as 'floating support' that is not permanently based at a particular site. Using interviews and focus groups this research considers older people's experiences and views, those of local authorities and providers of sheltered housing. It also includes practice examples of this type of service change in several local authorities and concludes with some recommendations for ways forward.
Extra care: assessing the need and location
- Author:
- KING Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 5(1), February 2002, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The two previous articles set out a typology of extra care housing and support for older people, and outlined funding. The last in the series describes how to decide if a frail elderly scheme is required, what model is most needed and in which location. The process of reaching a decision on the need for some form of extra care provision is essentially, first, an analysis of the supply of specialist housing and support provision and services, and second, an assessment of demand and trends for these services in a defined locality.