Resource Library

This report from the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) covers the role of healthcare staff in tackling loneliness and social isolation among older people.

This new report by United for All Ages highlights twenty radical ways to create ‘a country for all ages’ by 2030, countering ageism, loneliness and poor health, care, learning and housing in divided Britain.

The CABx and Cornwall Council have produced this toolkit to help Local Authorities and Health Trusts to tackle fuel poverty.

This guide to housing is one of 11 joint guides from Mencap and PLMD Network, designed to help local areas implement the ‘Raising our Sights’ recommendations.

This joint publication by Choice Support, PMLD Link, Care Management Group and The Sensory Projects - outlines key objectives and principles that, it states, should be evident across all education, health, and social care services

According to new research by the Centre for Ageing Better and Care & Repair England an estimated 10 million people across England will spend this Christmas in a home classed as ‘non-decent’.

This article in the International Journal of Environmental Health and Public Health by Northumbria University in partnership with Newcastle University and the Newcastle older persons’ forum draws on a Centre for Ageing Better commission.

This support tool & briefing note complements the High Impact Change Model  (HCIM) for transfers between hospital and home.

This guide from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health is aimed at helping practitioners enforce excess cold in the private rented sector.

This research report from the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, funded by the Nationwide Foundation, reveals a range of benefits for older people choosing to live with others, as well as identifying barriers to be overcome if co-living is to grow at scale throughout the UK.