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This report explains the 'doorstep' approach taken by the Ageing Better in Camden (ABC) Outreach Team to proactively find and engage with socially isolated older people that 'no one knows' in sheltered housing, including individuals who may be reluctant to access formal activities, help and support.

This report by Ageing Better in Camden (ABC), presents views of older people on the approach to sheltered housing outreach work developed by the ABC Outreach Team.

The Department of Health and Social Care has published new statutory guidance on hospital discharge and community support. Following the recent repeal of the Coronavirus Act, the guidance sets out how NHS bodies and local authorities should plan and deliver services to support people to be discharged from hospital and rehabilitation once they are ready to leave.

This guide and charter has been produced to support the development of high quality places across Wales for the benefit of communities. In signing the Placemaking Wales Charter, organisations must agree to support placemaking in all relevant areas of their work and promote the following principles in the planning, design and management of new and existing places.

This report from The World Bank puts forward the idea of age-readiness, building on the concept of the WHO’s work on age-friendliness. It highlights the varied trajectories of ageing within an urban context at a global level and draws on the experiences of older and more urban countries to show and set out how others can become age-ready.

Published by Impact on Urban Health, this report explores how the places where we grow up, live and work impact how healthy we are. The practical steps that we can all take to reduce health inequity are also the subject of this report.

The impact of hoarding behaviours and social networks on attitudes towards supported housing in older individuals

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Department of Health and Social Care have issued guidance for local authorities in England on the effective delivery of the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) to best serve the needs of local older and disabled people.

Published by Learning Disability England, Good Lives: Building Change Together is a framework that brings together people’s thoughts and ideas about what it will take for everyone with learning disabilities to be able to live their good life.

Published by Shakespeare Martineau, this research reveals that green homes will have a significant influence on the UK reaching its net zero 2050 targets, but unless homeowners are happy to live in them, there will be little commercial benefit for housebuilders to construct them.