Report Launch: Housing for people with dementia – are we ready? A report from an Inquiry by the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People

Event date

Presentation notes and slides

Watch the recording of the launch

Wendy Mitchell's address:

What's on the Agenda

  • 10.00 Brief explanation of Zoom format – Lois Beech, Secretariat/Housing LIN
  • 10.03 Welcome and intro – Peter Aldous MP, Co-chair APPG on Housing and Care for Older People
  • 10.07 About the ‘Are we ready?’ Housing and Dementia Inquiry – Lord Best, APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry Chair
  • 10.15 Why it important to me – Wendy Mitchell, author of How I made my home dementia-friendly and Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir
  • 10.25 Why housing and dementia matters – Jane Ashcroft, CEO, Anchor Hanover Group
  • 10.30 Getting our communities dementia-friendly –Tom Redfearn, Public Affairs Manager. Alzheimer’s Society
  • 10.35 Evidencing integration - the links to health and wellbeing – Professor Dawn Brooker, University of Worcester
  • 10.40 Next Steps: taking action – Jeremy Porteus, CEO, Housing LIN
  • 10.45 Q&A
  • 11.00 Summary and close – Lord Best, APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry Chair

More on the scope of the Inquiry

Documents

  • APPG Housing and Care for Older People

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