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.
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
Information relating to services designed to improve the home environment such as adaptations, maintenance, insulation and improved heating. Includes information about Home Improvement Agencies (HIAs)
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.
A changing housing market for providers
Packed with highly informative data and analysis, this Housing LIN Viewpoint no 56 shows that the market for housing providers is going through a traumatic time. It argues that major changes are needed in attitudes to ageing, employment and savings amongst other things.
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
- Housing for older people in Wales: a sector review of sheltered housing
- We Say: Our place, Our Space - The evidence on disabled people’s housing issues from Scotland’s Disabled People’s Summit
- Effective communication methods for Housing OTs
- Universal Design Guidelines for People with Dementia, their Families and Carers
- Occupational Therapy and Inclusive Design: Principles for Practice