Resource Library

This is a working draft of a proposed Health in Housing Memorandum of understanding (MoU) for organisations in West Sussex to co-develop and make a collective commitment towards the use of housing to improve the long-term health and wellbeing of our communities.

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.

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.

This report published by APSE, researched and written by the TCPA, calls on Government to put public health at the heart of housing delivery; empowering local decision-makers to create healthy and high-quality places.

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.