West Midlands Housing LIN
Updated on 19/04/2012
West Midlands Housing LIN Champion:
- Anne Bailey, M.Bailey1234@btinternet.com
For the next West Mids Region Housing LIN meeting, please look under 'Events'
Regional Update - April 2012
Anne Bailey reports on West Midlands Later Life Forum that took place in Birmingham last month. This brought together older people and staff from voluntary and statutory organisations to look at the implications of the APPG 'Living Well at Home' Inquiry report and beyond.
She also reports on the official opening of two new Housing 21 schemes in Walsall, the final of 5 extra care housing developments and a rehabilitation unit in Walsall £43m re-provision project: Deighton Court provides 53 one and two bedroom apartments, along with a hairdressing salon, restaurant, hobby room, assisted bathrooms and guest room. There is also a day centre and rehabilitation/respite facilities at the scheme. And Water Mill offers 30 residential places and 10 respite places as well as proving day care facilities for people aged 55 and over with dementia. The scheme is the first of its kind for Housing 21.
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...
- Invest in housing, invest in health This NHF report for strategic decision makers in the NHS shows how housing associations can make a big contribution to the health agenda. Using case studies from across the West Midlands, East Midlands...
- Extra Care Housing and Regeneration in Wolverhampton This Case Study No 51 describes the housing led regeneration of a specific disadvantaged area of Low Hill in Wolverhampton, which includes 208 new homes including a 64 bed Extra Care apartment scheme...
- Integrating Extra Care: partnership working in Staffordshire This Housing LIN Case Study No 47 looks at an example of successful joint working by eight partner organisations at Mill Rise, a new-build Extra Care scheme in Staffordshire.
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