Housing
Housing plays an important role in the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
These pages are split into a number of sections that provide essential information about how mainstream housing, specialist housing and personalised housing related care and support services can enable older people to live independently.
The Housing LIN has an excellent track record working with housing providers, commissioners, developers and designers of housing for older people. 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 Housing Subjects
Strategy
Policy and guidance on integrating plans for new and existing housing with strategies for improving health, wellbeing and sustainability.
Commissioning
Policy and guidance to help commissioners obtain good health and wellbeing outcomes from housing investment.
Supporting People
Information about the national Supporting People policy that promotes the development of support services to enable individuals to live independently in their own homes.
Housing Support
Guidance and examples about types of housing support.
Personalisation
Policy and practice that promotes choice and empowerment for individuals in accessing housing services.
Health & Wellbeing
Good practice in improving health and wellbeing through investment in housing.
Home improvement/Housing quality
Information about policy and practice developments relating to housing quality, stock conditions and home improvement.
Housing for Older People
Information about a range of designated housing for older people, including extra care, sheltered/retirement housing, almshouses and cohousing.
Key Resources
Transforming almshouses for the 21st century
This Housing LIN report explores the potential for almshouses to play a greater role in offering housing for vulnerable older people.
Going Digital
Why is digital important, how does it support policy and commissioning objectives, what are the benefits of going digital and how do you make sure you’re making the right decisions. This web resource explains how commissioners can provide “Living Better for Less Services” supported by technology-enabled housing
The Cohousing Approach to 'Lifetime Neighbourhoods'
This Housing LIN Factsheet No 29 considers how local authorities can work with public and private sector partners to develop a cohousing approach towards the outcomes sought from the government's national strategy on housing for an ageing society.
Housing, prevention and early intervention at work: a summary of the evidence base
This Housing LIN Viewpoint No 21, written by Jeremy Porteus, provides an overview of the evidence base and gives a personal account of the key housing and housing with care and support issues relating to prevention and early intervention.
Latest Resources
- Unpicking the downsizing discourse: understanding the housing moves made by older people in England
- 4 Reasons housing providers must revise their Telecare needs post COVID-19
- Housing and Ageing: Let’s Get Serious—“How Do You Plan for the Future while Addressing Immediate Chaos?”
- The experience of people approaching later life in lockdown
- Breathing Space: An independent evaluation of Orbit’s mental health programme
- Older People’s Care Development – Local Development Plan Monitoring
- Safe, Happy and Together: Design ideas for minimising the spread of infection whilst nurturing social interaction in later living communities
- From Stabilisation to Innovation: The Responses and Redesign of TEC Services during Covid-19
- A Public Vision for the Home of 2030
- Tobacco control and housing: A case for action from both sides