Resource Library

This ADASS/Tunstall paper pulls together the discussions of a high-level roundtable meeting on smart homes and sets out a series of quick wins where adult social care can support technology enabled solutions.

This report highlights the increased risk poor-quality housing has on those identified as being most at risk of COVID-19, especially in the event of another lockdown.

This report examines the progress of digital innovation in healthcare over the past five months with specific regard to telehealth, telecare, telemedicine and assistive technologies. It shows how the use of Technology-Enabled Care Services (TECS) has accelerated throughout the pandemic and calls for this momentum should be built on with a set of 8 recommendations.

This tool provides a strategic, future planning tool for the housing sector to support our homes and environment to be as accessible as possible. Published by the SHFA’s Innovation and Future Thinking programme, the tool allows Scottish housing associations, co-operatives and others involved in housing & urban development to think holistically about inclusive approaches to housing development, maintenance and repair, and the wider urban environment.

This report from the LGA explores how councils and their partners can best to support greater digital innovation and adoption across the adult social care sector in a sustainable way.

Produced by the Chartered Institute of Housing and Orbit Group, this briefing considers what the housing sector needs to undertake to lead the drive to tackle climate change and achieve the targets the government has set to reduce carbon emissions.

This paper in Taylor & Francis’ online Cities & Health issue, maps the impact of the neighbourhood design on health and wellbeing and evaluate the quality of the evidence underpinning such associations.

The government published its Planning White Paper, Planning for the Future on 6th August 2020. Much trailed as getting Britain to "build, build, build", the measures outlined are a green light for housebuilders to construct new housing within certain confines; namely, on sites designated for growth. However, despite lobbying with other sector bodies for more favourable planning conditions for housing an ageing population.

This advice note by Ben Kochan in this month’s Placemaking Resource includes comments by the Housing LIN’s Jeremy Porteus on Lifestyle changes since lockdown, It highlights the need to design homes and neighbourhoods with more space for working and local services nearby.

This leaflet from the Sussex Health and Care Partnership provides a checklist for householders about hazards found in their home.