Government publishes its response to Taskforce report, and a future ‘roadmap’

Nearly two years after the Older People’s Housing Taskforce published its report, ‘Our future homes: Housing that promotes wellbeing and community for an ageing population’, the government has published its response, setting out a future ‘roadmap’ on how it aims to drive the Taskforce’s recommendations forward.

Published in November 2024, the Taskforce report made over 90 recommendations from its findings, presented in 10 defining chapters; from better access to advice and information on housing options in later life and greater transparency for consumers on what the costs on offer in the leasehold sector are to improved age-friendly and dementia-inclusive design and technology to stronger national, regional and local leadership to deliver a wider range of affordable housing choices and reduce the strain on health and social care services.

In highlighting that there will be a future ‘roadmap’, Baroness Sharon Taylor OBE, Minister of Housing and Communities in the House of Lords, in a joint response with the Department of Health and Social Care, has outlined the following. Read on….