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Growing Older Together: The Case for Housing that is Shaped and Controlled by Older People

This case study report argues that the UK needs to develop more housing that is shaped and controlled by older people themselves. Drawing on recent research, the report describes the specific appeal of resident controlled housing for older people and it shows how such housing contributes to older people’s well-being.
2013

Transforming almshouses for the 21st century

Almshouses have existed for a thousand years, but their role is not well-understood outside the almshouse movement.
2013

Health, Wellbeing, and the Older People Housing Agenda

This paper is aimed primarily at Health and Wellbeing Board members and seeks to support them in their understanding of: • The impact of poor housing on the health and wellbeing outcomes of older people. • The strategic approaches they can take to influence the provision of housing and housing related services to improve the health and wellbeing of their older population.
2012

Building Mutual Support & Social Capital in Retirement Communities

This edition of Viewpoint explores what it might mean to build ‘social capital’ in specialist housing for older people and the opportunities and obstacles to doing so. It presents and reflects on good practice examples which are seeking to do this through volunteering, peer support, social enterprise and co-production.
2012

Housing an Ageing Population: The Extra Care Solution

The aim of this UK report is to contribute to the debate on the future of extra care housing and add to the recent publications by HAPPI (2010) and the National Housing Federation (2011). There is already a wealth of material on existing types of extra care provision. The external environment is, however, changing.
2011

Evaluation of the extra care housing initiative: PSSRU technical report

A central principle underlying the policy of recent UK governments has been to help people maintain their independence in their own homes for as long as possible. More recently, policies have emphasised the personalisation of services, with the aim of giving people greater choice and control over the services they receive.
2011

The Cohousing Approach to 'Lifetime Neighbourhoods'

This UK fact sheet considers how local authorities can work with public and private sector partners to develop a cohousing approach towards the outcomes sought from the government’s national strategy on housing for an ageing society.
2008
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