Housing sector role in delivering national dementia strategy

Housing Lin Briefing No22 - The housing sector provides services to people who already have or may develop dementia and can therefore make an important contribution to a whole systems approach. This paper briefly outlines how housing services can prevent or delay the use of more costly, and sometimes disabling, downstream services given appropriate information, training, guidance and incentives.

Some of these aspects are touched on in the National Strategy on Housing for an Ageing Society, Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods (2008).