EAC Housing for Older People Awards 2010

Celebrating specialised housing in later life, these new Awards by Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) are open to all forms of retirement housing. For the first time the residents themselves will nominate schemes through a consultation involving them in small groups as well as individually. A deck of cards has been designed to stimulate discussions and help capture satisfaction ratings on design, services, and well-being.
These awards are supported by the CLG and by the Housing LIN, and endorsed by: Age Concern and Help the Aged, the Association of Retirement Housing Managers, the Centre for Housing & Support, the Chartered Institute of Housing, the Essential Role of Sheltered Housing, FirstStop Advice, the Retirement Housing Group of the Home Builders Federation, the Local Government Association, McCarthy & Stone, the National Housing Federation and the Audit Commission. Click here for further details.

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Offering Better Housing Related Support for Older People with a Learning Disability

This course aims to look at how people working in housing and advice organisations can improve how they work with older people with moderate or mild learning disabilities, both to manage a crisis and also prevent recurrence. The training is taking place on 13th & 14th October 2009 for further information and to book your place click here!
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Learning from Extra-care Housing in Bradford

The aim of this study was to assess as accurately as possible the comparative cost before and after residents moved to a new extra-care housing scheme in Bradford. The importance of extra-care housing in the current policy context is illustrated by the level of financial investment. This report estimates comprehensive costs for each of the broad cost components (accommodation, social care, health services, living expenses and informal care), which together represent the weekly cost of a resident’s living arrangement; it interprets cost differences before and after the move in the context of outcomes and needs of residents; and it identifies a number of methodological implications for future studies.

Commissioning Housing Support for Health and Wellbeing

The purpose of this report is to help commissioners in health, local government and other public services to: increase the positive impact of commissioning on the health and wellbeing of their local populations by addressing housing support in their strategies; most effectively meet relevant Public Service Agreement (PSA)targets by building on existing expertise and systems; and increase joint working between health and local government and other sectors to achieve better services.