Resource Library

The aim of this study was to explore the views and experiences of older adults and their carers who had received a bathing adaptation in order to examine how the adaptation had affected them and identify mechanisms of impact and outcomes from their perspectives.

Match Me was an 18-month action research project into the allocation of adapted and accessibly designed social housing and what enhanced independent living for disabled people.

A flexible template to assist with reviewing services, identifying risk and developing an improvement plan to support local authorities and registered social landlords in improving their sheltered housing provision.

This briefing by the Welsh NHS Confederation and Cymorth Housing Cymru provides an overview of the benefits of housing working with health and care and showcases examples where housing and health work collaboratively.

This report from Ambition for Ageing argues that to reduce social isolation, we need a diversity of social infrastructure to ensure chance social encounters with a diversity of people.

This Toolkit from PHSA is intended to support the inclusion of health considerations within community planning and design.

This paper from Newton and The Better Care Fund details a collaborative approach in tackling the challenges relating to delayed patient transfers from a hospital environment.

Dementia-friendly designs are important in residential care homes but an aspect that remains neglected is the potential role of door designs in promoting wayfinding.

With 9 million people reportedly suffering from loneliness in the UK – an increase of 200,000 people since the 1950s – This paper from WSP aims to set out the main built environment causes of loneliness and isolation.

This Age UK and Habinteg factsheet challenges the myths that delivering accessible housing is "too costly, too difficult or simply undesirable for buyers"