Mental Health and Housing
The resources listed on these pages offer practical information about how suitable housing options and related services, and timely support interventions can respond to the needs of people with specific mental health conditions and improve their health and wellbeing.
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 experiencing mental health issues. 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 Mental Health Subjects
Housing Options
How housing related services and support, as well as the way we design how our homes, can respond to the needs of people with specific mental problems, both working age and older people, including information about housing options.
Older people
Relevant policy and practice developments where there is reference to housing for older people with 'functional' mental health problems such as depression and schizophrenia.
Key resources
Mental Health Dashboard
The Department of Health have published a 'dashboard' which rings together mental health outcomes data to show progress made against the objectives set out in their 2011 strategy, 'No health, without mental health'.
Living Well in Old Age: The value of UK housing interventions in supporting mental health and wellbeing in later life
Older people are at an increased risk of developing mental health problems as a result of bereavement, a drop in status in retirement, or a disability that affects how they get about and what they can do.
Housing and mental health: providing support for people in need
This report by the Mental Health Foundation identifies which types of supported accommodation successfully meet the needs of people with mental health problems and draws on the expertise of people living and working in these settings across England to capture the issues on the ground.
Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat: Improving outcomes for people experiencing mental health crisis
In February 2014, a number of national organisations involved in health, policing, social care, housing, local government and the third sector came together and signed the Crisis Care Concordat.
More than shelter: Supported accommodation and mental health
Published by the Centre for Mental Health, this report reviews evidence about supported housing services for people with mental health problems in England.
The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health
An independent Mental Health Task Force sets out an ambition to improve the care and support available from the NHS for people experiencing a mental health crisis.
Latest Resources
- Better lives for older people
- The financial case for integrated mental health services and supported housing pathways
- Future options for housing and care
- Mental health and housing: The feasibility of calculating an investment case
- Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all
- The Impact of Analogue to Digital Migration on Technology Enabled Care
- Improving installation: How a new standard is transforming group living systems
- West Sussex Health and Care in Housing Memorandum of Understanding: Working Draft for Engagement Purposes
- Specialised Supported Housing: guidance for local government and NHS commissioners
- A CollaborAGE Directory – Championing Communities