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About Strategic Housing for Older People: Planning, designing and delivering housing that older people want
To coincide with the Government's Housing Strategy and a 'deal for older people's housing', this Strategic Housing for Older People (SHOP) Resource Pack offers a sector-led approach to meeting the housing demand and supply challenges for an increasingly ageing population.
Published by the Housing Learning and Improvement Network, supported by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, and written by the Institute of Public Care (IPC) at Oxford Brookes University, SHOP provides a framework and a basket of accompanying tools for councils, public and private sector developers and providers to develop their strategic market position and take the initiative in designing and building homes that older people want, including extra care housing. The papers and accompanying tools in this Resource Pack support a variety of activities including:
- how to develop an understanding of what future demand is likely to be for housing for older people
- what does the market look like now and how should it look in the future
- what are the key success factors in the service design process for extra care housing
- how do you promote and market extra care housing
Laid out in three sections, the Resource Pack that should be used to influence your local strategic commissioning, planning and investment decisions, and give you the confidence to help transform and improve the range of housing choices for older people in your communities over the next 20 years.
The sections that make up the SHOP Resource Pack can either be downloaded or printed as individual PDF documents or by the specific paper or tool.
Resource Pack Downloads
SHOP Resource Pack (pdf - 13.12Mb) 
This download contains all sections (A, B, C) and associated papers and tools.
Section A: Older People and Housing - understanding demand and supply for older people's housing, care and support.For a detailed understanding of the current market issues.
Section B: Developing Extra Care Housing - a detailed review of the planning, design and development of extra care housing.For specific information on innovation in extra care housing.
Section C: Bibliography and other key resources.For a comprehensive list of resources published by the Housing LIN, Government and other literature and web sources.
We are also working on an on-line version which will be available in early 2012. A limited number of hard copies are also available. Email info@housinglin.org.uk to check availability.
To access more information on our work with IPC to develop a range of SHOP products to support service development and improvement please see their website http://ipc.brookes.ac.uk/shop.html . The website also includes information on IPC's new Housing with Care course a training programme designed specifically for ECH managers.
