In Focus - Innovations in Housing and Dementia

The Alzheimer’s Society and Housing 21 have updated the 2017 Dementia Friendly Housing Charter. The new report helps to inform how housing organisations, corporate bodies and sector professionals on how housing, their design and supporting services, can help improve and maintain the wellbeing of people affected by dementia.

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.

The Housing LIN was commissioned by The Guinness Partnership to undertake an independent evaluation of the progress made in becoming a more dementia-friendly organisation.

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.

This brochure gives an overview of the Housing LIN's work to create a better understanding on the links between housing and dementia and promote our related online learning and regional improvement services.