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.