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Published in Cities and Health, this study aims to identify restorative spatial characteristics and their applicability in neighbourhood open space design to improve citizens’ mental health, and critically reflects upon the current literature with the aim of guiding future research and design practice.

Arguing why dementia care should be an important priority for policy makers, this manifesto from Dementia Carers Count sets out what carers have said would make a difference to them as well as the charity's recommendations for policy changes.

This template from Foundations, the national umbrella body for home improvement agencies, is designed to help professionals manage their caseloads efficiently and effectively and support any DFG decision making.

This briefing by Independent Age explores the challenges of organisations directly supporting older people from different minoritised communities and their experiences of poverty in later life.

The Centre of Ageing Better have published three reports with Foundations to better understand how local authorities are financially supporting individuals to make changes to their home despite an extremely challenging context for public budgets.

Modern Hospice Design: The architecture of palliative and social care’ (2nd edition) is the latest edition of this book (published by Routledge) and provides a comprehensive update on the need for good quality palliative care and does so with regard to the development of new building types.

This report by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee has called for increased availability of community-based alternatives to inpatient settings for people with a learning disability and autistic people.

This Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) Select Committee report found that despite the cross-government effort to “ensure disability inclusion is a priority” there is little evidence that the government is treating disabled people’s needs as a priority in housing policy.

This report from the Local Government Association Better Care Fund Support Programme articulates the benefits, challenges and opportunities of delivering home-based intermediate care (HBIC) by using evidence and learning from 19 health and care systems.