In Focus - Innovations in Housing and Dementia

Launched at the Housing LIN 2017 annual conference, this Dementia-Friendly Housing Charter is aimed at the full range of housing sector professionals across all tenures. It aims to help professionals in their support of people living with dementia in their homes and facilitate consistency and good practice.

This report from the Prime Minister sets out the areas where the government believes it will be necessary for society to take sustained action in order to deliver this vision and to truly transform dementia care, support and research by 2020.

Commissioned by Public Health England in partnership with Alzheimer's Society, the Local Government Association and the Housing LIN, this self-assessment tool focuses on local commissioning processes and decision-making.

Supported by the Housing LIN and written by Sue Garwood on behalf of the Dementia and Housing Working Group, this new report and Resource Pack is aimed at providing information to assist housing providers in equipping their workforce with the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively with people who have dementia.

This summary by the Guinness Partnership outlines how is aims to become a dementia friendly organisation so that it makes a difference for customersliving with dementia.

This Housing LIN Report draws together the responses from a national questionnaire we sent earlier on in 2016, which aim was to gather a national picture of how organisations support people with dementia to move into or to stay within an extra care scheme.

To coincide with the Housing LIN's involvement in the Prime Minister's challenge on dementia, we have published this helpful review of how AT can support people with dementia.