South West Housing LIN
Updated on 19/04/2012
South West Housing LIN Champion:
- Pat Palmer, Consultant, ppalmer@palmerhousing.co.uk
For the next SW Region Housing LIN meeting, please look under 'Events'
Regional Update - April 2012
Pat Palmer reports on the recent The Age of Influence: Shaping our own Future event organised by the SW Seniors Network, chaired by Valerie Singleton. More details will be uploaded here as soon as possible.
Regional Resources
- Involving older people in service commissioning: more power to their elbow? Carried out on behalf of JRF by the London School of Economics and Political Science, this research, which investigated what happens when older people are given the opportunity to shape service commissioning...
- Safe at Home: A preventive handyperson service in Devon This Housing LIN case study no 54 showcases a successful handyperson scheme in Devon. It describes how the scheme was established and its subsequent evolution in the face of changes in the organisational...
- HSU - Supporting our work in the South West With initial support from the Housing LIN, the South West Housing Support Unit has produced a range of useful toolkits which are available for download from this page. The overall aim of the Unit was...
- Health, Housing and Care working together to achieve a Prevention Model of wellbeing in Extra Care at Marina Court, Tewkesbury This Housing LIN Case Study no 52 highlights the preventative services that maximise the independence of older people, including the development of a health and wellbeing suite and ethos within the DH...
- Putting Older People First in the South West: A Market Assessment This Report was jointly commissioned by the South West Housing LIN and the Department of Health SW. The aim of this paper is to give an understanding of the current position in the region in terms of...
- Age Friendly Bournemouth: Building Social Capital in Housing and Extra Care Dimensions This Housing LIN Case Study No 50 takes a detailed look at Bournemouth Council's strategic approach to meeting the housing needs and aspirations of older people. In 2007, Bournemouth Council set out...
- Meadow Court, Pewsey - Rural hub and spoke Replacing an outdated building and providing a hub for services into the local rural community as a cost effective approach to meeting local need. Can't see the video above? Download the latest flash...
- Stanton Lodge, Swindon - Providing a dementia voice Enabling couples, where one has dementia, to stay together, living in a supported environment but with the independence of their own purchased flat. Can't see the video above? Download the latest...
- Putting Older People First in the South West - A regional housing market assessment The South West Housing LIN has led a comprehensive analysis of the issues that will shape housing with support in the region over the coming decades. Working with the Housing Corporation, the LIN has...
- Village people: a mixed tenure retirement community A Housing LIN Case study No5 of St Monica Trust an extra care facility in Bristol that has a mix of tenures and combines extra care with a nursing home and other facilities.
- Estimating future requirements for Extra Care housing in Swindon A Housing LIN Case Study No21 describing how Swindon Borough Council developed and used a tool to help inform a strategy for housing, support and care for older people. The tool examines the gap between...
- Home care service for people with dementia This Housing LIN Case study No13 describes a pioneering, specialist home care service for people with dementia in the Borough of Poole in Dorset. The services offers support at home and outside the home,...
- From Healthier Homes to healthier lives (South West) Published by Regional Public Health Group, May 2006 and provides useful facts and figures on the role of housing in improving health and well-being of older people in the South West region.
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