Resource Library

This updated review details changes to life expectancy and further changes to health inequalities since 2010, as well as a breakdown of the social determinants of health in England.

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 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 Quick Guide by NICE and SCIE provides quick and easy access to information on helping to prevent winter deaths and illnesses associated with cold homes.

This factsheet from Age UK is a collection of statistics on ageing and later life

This guide by Care & Repair England includes a list of possible questions that anyone with an interest in improving delivery of home adaptations will find useful in discussions with local providers.

The Housing LIN is pleased to be one the founding members of Housing Made for Everyone (HoME).

This report by Francesca Sanders, a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellow examined a range of innovative and affordable housing solutions for later life in the USA, Japan and Canada and considers the suitability for adoption of these models in the UK.

The aim of this initiative undertaken by UWE for Public Health England (PHE), was to explore how local teams have been able to use PHE’s 2017 Resource, Spatial Planning and Health: evidence resource, and the challenges of applying the principles set out in it at a local level