Housing Learning & Improvement Network
We are the leading national network for promoting innovative new ideas in enhancing the housing choices for older people and supporting change in the delivery of housing and related care and support services.
Extra Care Housing Tools
These new papers and tools cover in detail the essential components of developing housing that older people want, including extra care.
Housing with Care Matters
Our regular newsletter Housing with Care Matters features the latest funding, policy and practice developments, new online resources and shared learning and networking opportunities.
DH Funded Extra Care Scheme Locator
These pages provide key information of completed schemes from the Department of Health's extra care housing fund.
The Housing and Ageing Alliance
The HAA is a group that seeks to bring about improvements to the housing and living conditions of older people.
Discuss, share & engage
Visit our discussion boards or get involved at your regional network meeting and share your experiences, collaborate with colleagues and have your say on the latest housing, care and support related topics.
Housing and Dementia
These pages offer the most comprehensive information anywhere about meeting the specific housing with care needs of people with dementia.
Latest
Latest news, resources, form postings and events
- What Triggers Care Home Registration?
- Mixed tenure choices at Buckshaw Retirement Village, Chorley, Lancashire
- A Progressive Approach to Accessible Housing
- Public Health Outcomes Framework
- Electricity Charges
- National Evaluation of the Handyperson Programme
- What constitutes rent in extra care housing for HCA purposes?
- National Alliance welcomes Minister's commitment to older people's freedom to choose where they live
- Helping older people choose the right home for them
- Helping older people choose the right home for them
- NHF conference - Delivering Housing Adaptations
- Telecare eNewsletter January 2012
- FirstStop Training on housing and care options
- Integrated Care
- Capital funding opportunities
Latest news
- Telecare eNewsletter January 2012
- FirstStop Training on housing and care options
- £150m additional support funding for social care and £20m additional Disabled Facilities Grant funding
- Housing LIN Newsletter December 2011
- Social Services revenue and capital allocations announced
- Housing innovation could benefit older people and the taxpayer
- Extra Care Housing independent evaluation
- Lifetime Neighbourhoods
- Housing LIN Newsletter November 2011
- The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012-13
- Close to home: An inquiry into older people and human rights in home care
- Strategy launched to bolster housing - does this offer a 'grey deal'?
- Telecare eNewsletter October 2011
- National Housing for Older People Awards 2012
- Housing LIN Newsletter October 2011
Latest resources
- Mixed tenure choices at Buckshaw Retirement Village, Chorley, Lancashire
- A Progressive Approach to Accessible Housing
- National Evaluation of the Handyperson Programme
- National Alliance welcomes Minister's commitment to older people's freedom to choose where they live
- Helping older people choose the right home for them
- Housing LIN Newsletter December 2011
- Enabling Independence - A guide to reablement provision in Extra Care
- Involving older people in service commissioning: more power to their elbow?
- Housing and Mental Health
- Local Authority Social Services Letter - LASSL(DH)(2011)1
- EVOLVE for Vision - Building Evaluation Tool
- Evaluation of the extra care housing initiative
- Lifetime Neighbourhoods
- ASSIST: Human Factors and Assistive technology
- SHOP Resource Pack: Section C. Bibliography and other key resources
Latest forum postings
- What Triggers Care Home Registration?
- Public Health Outcomes Framework
- Electricity Charges
- What constitutes rent in extra care housing for HCA purposes?
- Helping older people choose the right home for them
- Integrated Care
- Capital funding opportunities
- Adult social care & housing - advice/info and DFGs
- Housing LIN Enews
- Housing LIN Conference 08 12 11
- Integrated Extra Care flats and residential home
- Extra Care Housing- Admissions Policy
- Asessing the need/demand for Extra Care housing
- Extra Care Housing Dementia Schemes
- Extra Care Housing & Intermediate Care Beds
Extra Care Housing Tools
These new papers and tools cover in detail the essential components of developing housing that older people want, including extra care.
Design and development
The resources listed here offer guidance and examples of effective design principles and practice for the design of accommodation for older and vulnerable adults.
Funding Extra Care Housing
These pages give an overview of the principal ways Extra Care Housing developments are financed, reviewing sources of capital funding, modelling of a scheme's economic viability, and revenue funding.
Strategies and Policies
The resources here provide a range of examples of strategic and operational policies and practice that can help with preparing housing strategies for older and vulnerable adults.
DH Funded Extra Care Housing Schemes
These pages provide key information of completed schemes from the Department of Health's extra care housing fund.
