Mental Health and Housing
The resources listed on these pages offer practical information about how suitable housing options and related services, and timely support interventions can respond to the needs of people with specific mental health conditions and improve their health and wellbeing.
Key Mental Health Subjects
Housing Options
How housing related services and support, as well as the way we design how our homes, can respond to the needs of people with specific mental problems, both working age and older people, including information about housing options.
Older people
Relevant policy and practice developments where there is reference to housing for older people with 'functional' mental health problems such as depression and schizophrenia.
Key resources
Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services - Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches
This set of publications by the World Health Organisation (WHO) provides information and support to all stakeholders who wish to develop or transform their mental health system and services to align with international human rights standards including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Mental Health Dashboard
The Department of Health have published a 'dashboard' which rings together mental health outcomes data to show progress made against the objectives set out in their 2011 strategy, 'No health, without mental health'.
Living Well in Old Age: The value of UK housing interventions in supporting mental health and wellbeing in later life
Older people are at an increased risk of developing mental health problems as a result of bereavement, a drop in status in retirement, or a disability that affects how they get about and what they can do.
Housing and mental health: providing support for people in need
This report by the Mental Health Foundation identifies which types of supported accommodation successfully meet the needs of people with mental health problems and draws on the expertise of people living and working in these settings across England to capture the issues on the ground.
Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat: Improving outcomes for people experiencing mental health crisis
In February 2014, a number of national organisations involved in health, policing, social care, housing, local government and the third sector came together and signed the Crisis Care Concordat.
More than shelter: Supported accommodation and mental health
Published by the Centre for Mental Health, this report reviews evidence about supported housing services for people with mental health problems in England.
The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health
An independent Mental Health Task Force sets out an ambition to improve the care and support available from the NHS for people experiencing a mental health crisis.
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Building on the Housing LIN’s learning and improvement ethos, we offer bespoke advice to help your organisation draw on the lessons highlighted on these pages. To find out how the Housing LIN can support your operational and/or strategic plans, please contact us at consultancy@housinglin.org.uk or visit our consultancy pages.
Latest Resources
- Homes for All: A Vision for England’s Housing System
- A Strengths-Based Model for Evidencing the Impact of Prevention: Key Lessons from a Multi Site Study of Local Area Coordination
- Impact Report: Social Behavioural and Design Research Programme
- Toolkit for place-based plans for housing for older adults
- Developing local housing partnerships: a Serious Game for older people’s housing
- Loneliness and the Built Environment: A short film
- Housing and Mental Wellbeing: Learning Summit Report
- Greater Manchester Age-Friendly Strategy 2024-2034
- Creating a Britain that Works and Cares
- Future Leaders Programme: Housing LIN opens call for applications to its new early career cohort