Sight Loss, Home and the Built Environment
It is estimated that one in five people aged 75 and over and one in two aged 90 and over are living with sight loss that has a significant impact on their daily lives.
These pages provide guidance resources, reports and individual stories that explore the issues facing people with sight loss in their daily lives and show the importance of well-designed housing, practical advice and support, social connections and appropriate technology.
Key Sight Loss Subjects
Housing needs, advice and brokerage
Tools and resources to support commissioners, providers and people with sight loss.
Design and lighting
Useful resources for architects, OTs and designers.
Enabling technology
Resources on how enabling technology, ICT and other products can support independence.
Health and wellbeing
Information on the wider determinants of health that impact people with sight loss.
Work, income and benefits
Information that makes the connection between work, income and benefits for people with a visual impairment.
Personal stories
A collection of personal stories and examples of everyday experiences of people living with sight loss.
Key resources
Lighting Guide to enable visually impaired people to improve lighting in their homes
A Lighting Guide developed by Thomas Pocklington Trust and designed to assist visually impaired people to improve lighting in their homes, increasing their independence, comfort and safety.
Housing Guide for People with Sight Loss
This online guide by sight loss charity Thomas Pocklington Trust provides information and advice for visually impaired people who are looking for a new home, seeking to live independently for the first time or experiencing problems in their current accommodation.
A Practical Guide to Improving Lighting in Existing Homes
Drawing upon research from Thomas Pocklington Trust & UCL, this guide is full of practical advice for improving lighting in the existing homes for people with sight loss.
Assistive and Inclusive Home Technology Guide for People with Sight Loss
This guide from TPT covers a wide range of tech products used for a variety of activities around the home, from online shopping and reading to health and fitness.
A Thomas Pocklington Trust Best Practice Guide for Housing Design
This publication provides good practice guidance on improving the homes of people with sight loss. It aims to support planned maintenance, replacements and refurbishment of the homes of people with sight loss and one-off adaptations in response to individual needs.
Transition: Empowering Visually Impaired Young People as they Move to Adulthood
Thomas Pocklington Trust have prepared these links as part of the third phase of the Longitudinal Transitions Study that follows the experiences of young people with vision impairment during the transition from school through to employment and adulthood.
Daylighting in Older People's Housing
This guide by Thomas Pocklington Trust and the University of Manchester, highlights the power of design for daylighting to improve the lives of people with sight loss. This resource will be extremely valuable to architects.
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Building on the Housing LIN’s learning and improvement ethos, we offer bespoke advice to help your organisation draw on the lessons highlighted on these pages. To find out how the Housing LIN can support your operational and/or strategic plans, please contact us at consultancy@housinglin.org.uk or visit our consultancy pages.
Latest Resources
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- Housing LIN Case Study (No. 174) - More's Meadow Almshouses: A community-led development in Cambridgeshire
- Nurturing Inclusion: A Good Practice Case Study from Stirling Health and Care Village
- Measuring the Wellbeing and Fiscal Impacts of Housing for Older People
- Disabled Facilities Grant Decision Maker
- Accessible independent housing for people with disabilities: A scoping review