Care and Support at Home
These pages provide useful tools, resources and examples of innovative approaches to enabling older people and people with disabilities to live well and independently in their own homes.
They provide specific information across 8 key areas for adult social care commissioners, housing and care providers, primary care services and NHS hospital trusts on shaping, commissioning, funding, and delivering a range of planned and self care and support solutions for people living in their own homes.
The Housing LIN has an excellent track record working with housing providers, health and adult social care commissioners of housing that supports independent living for people who need care and support at home. For bespoke advice to help your organisation draw on the lessons highlighted on these pages and/or to talk through how the Housing LIN can support with your operational and/or strategical plans, please contact us at consultancy@housinglin.org.uk or visit our consultancy pages.
Key Care and Support at Home Subjects
Assessment and planning
The Care Act 2014 emphasises the importance of involving individuals in all aspects of their care and support. Find a range of useful resources on assessment and care and support planning for professionals involved in these processes.
Commissioning and procurement
Policy, practice examples and resources to aid commissioners and providers to develop care and support services based on local need and aspirations, while supporting people to live fulfilling and independent lives in their own homes.
Innovative service provision
Examples of innovative service models, many illustrating an integrated approach to service provision.
Co-production and communities
Many initiatives led by or involving housing providers illustrate the value of facilitating community development, co-production and user-led provision. Find top tips, studies and examples on the benefits and challenges of these approaches.
Prevention and quality outcomes
These pages contain information on approaches designed to improve the quality of services and outcomes for the growing number of older and disabled people in the UK, supporting them to live well and independently in their own home.
Adult Safeguarding
The Care Act 2014 makes it clear that the housing sector has an important contribution to make in safeguarding its customers, working in co-operation with the local authority and others in the public, private or voluntary sectors.
Bereavement & End of Life Care
Find resources intended to raise awareness amongst housing and care practitioners and providers of the current agendas and developments in practice around bereavement support and end of life care.
Home services locator
EAC's directory of Home Services. This comprehensive database covers known provision of care and support services for older and vulnerable people at home in the UK.
Loneliness and Isolation
These pages showcase relevant guidance and policy instruments, useful research findings and examples of services and innovative projects that offer practical solutions in combatting loneliness and reducing social isolation.
Key Resources
Supported housing: national statement of expectations
This Government statement of expectations sets out guidelines for local authorities and supported housing providers, detailing good practice for the housing management aspects of supported housing provision.
Statutory guidance to support local authorities implement the Care Act 2014
The Department of Health has refreshed the Care and Support statutory guidance that supports implementation of part 1 of the Care Act 2014 by local authorities, the NHS, the police and other partners.
Care and Support in Housing with Care for Older People: Policy Technical Brief
This Housing LIN Policy Technical Brief covers changes in the national policy framework since the 2010 Technical Brief on care and support in Extra Care Housing was written.
Growing Older Together: An Overview of Collaborative Forms of Housing for Older People
This Housing LIN Case Study Report shows how collaborative models of service delivery for older people are now being widely adopted in the heath and care sectors and suggests that housing could do more to embrace this.
Developing your local housing offer for health and care
Updated in 2016, this tool acknowledges the significance of housing as a partner and contributor to achieving the aims of health and social care services.
End of life care in extra care housing - learning and resource pack for housing, care and support staff
A resource pack full of practical advice, case studies and links to useful resources about all aspects of end of life from prognosis, conversations about dying and person centred planning through to important considerations after death.
Latest Resources
- The Retirement Village and Extra Care Housing in England: Operators’ Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic - RE-COV Study
- Better End of Life Report 2021
- Reframing dementia: a guide to living with dementia
- Better Homes, Better Neighbourhoods and Better Health
- Technology-enabled care should be central to good care – and the Social Care White Paper
- Approaches to Commissioning Bereavement Services
- Understanding and aligning link worker and community capacity building activity: A place-based approach in York and Wakefield
- Exploring how technology can be truly integrated into adult social care
- Third Age City: Housing for older Londoners
- Future options for housing and care