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.
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
- Co-living for older people – reduced loneliness and lower living costs
- Kinship in the City: Urban loneliness and the Built Environment
- Ageing Better: Working with older people to reduce social isolation and loneliness: A guide for Housing Associations
- Connecting Communities - Housing at the heart of integrated health and social care in Scotland
- Intergenerational Learning in Practice: Together Old and Young
- Help with home adaptations: Improving local services
- Housing LIN Case Study 157 - Creating independent homes for people developing or living with cognitive conditions in East Manchester
- Reaching Out: Guide to helping principal and local councils tackle loneliness
- Assessing the potential benefits of living in co-operative and/or community led housing
- About Housing Made for Everyone