A study found that extra care housing could improve quality of life for older people and save public money. Extra care housing schemes offered a 'viable alternative to residential care'.
Source: Ann Netten, Robin Darton, Theresia Baumker, and Lisa Callaghan, Improving Housing with Care Choices for Older People: An evaluation of extra care housing, Personal Social Services Research Unit/Housing and Learning Improvement Network
Links: Report | Technical paper | Inside Housing report
Date: 2011-Dec
The Scottish Government published a 10-year housing strategy for older people. It stressed the importance of supporting people to remain at home independently for as long as possible.
Source: Age, Home and Community: A strategy for housing for Scotland?s older people: 2012-2021, Scottish Government
Links: Strategy | Scottish Government press release
Date: 2011-Dec
A report examined the importance of neighbourhood as a determinant of well-being in later life. It considered examples of how the issues of ageing, design, housing, transport, participation, and green spaces could be linked.
Source: Mark Bevan and Karen Croucher, Lifetime Neighbourhoods, Department for Communities and Local Government
Links: Report | York University press release
Date: 2011-Dec
An article reported findings from an in-depth evaluation of extra care housing for older people. A careful reappraisal of cost components and a more integrated approach across housing, health, and social care was required, particularly in a climate of public funding cuts.
Source: Theresia Baumker, Robin Darton, Ann Netten, and Jacquetta Holder, 'Development costs and funding of extra care housing', Public Money and Management, Volume 31 Issue 6
Links: Abstract
Date: 2011-Nov
A report reviewed the evidence on the cost-effectiveness of preventative support services that assisted older people with care and support needs to remain in their own homes.
Source: Nicholas Pleace, The Costs and Benefits of Preventative Support Services for Older People, Centre for Housing Policy (University of York)
Links: Report
Date: 2011-Oct
A report said that the under-occupation of housing had jumped by around 45 per cent since 2003 and was continuing to grow at an 'alarming' pace – mainly because older people were living longer and staying in the family home rather than downsizing to more appropriate accommodation. The report called for changes to the tax system to encourage the downsizing process, such as an exemption from stamp duty for people aged over 60 when they moved to a smaller property.
Source: Matt Griffith, Hoarding of Housing: The intergenerational crisis in the housing market, Intergenerational Foundation
Links: Report | Intergenerational Foundation press release | CIH press release | BBC report | Guardian report | Inside Housing report
Date: 2011-Oct
A report reviewed evidence on the social and financial outcomes of the Supporting People programme. 90 per cent of local councillors and housing officers surveyed for the study said that cuts in the programme would put vulnerable individuals at risk and create costs elsewhere in the system.
Source: Jonathan Carr-West and Lauren Lucas, Promoting Independence: The future of housing related support, Local Government Information Unit/Circle
Links: Report | Circle press release
Notes: The Supporting People programme provides housing-related support services to enable vulnerable people to live independently.
Date: 2011-Oct
A report by an all-party group of MPs called for housing, health, and social care to be integrated in order to help older people maintain their independence. Aids and adaptations installed in the home could prevent the need for institutional care and instead enhance quality of life in retirement. Some people were waiting more than two years to have aids and adaptations installed in their home, and there was a shortage of grant for home adaptations.
Source: Living Well At Home Inquiry, All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People
Links: Report | Inside Housing report
Date: 2011-Jul
A report said that urgent action was needed to avoid a growing crisis in the provision of housing for older people. There were only 100,000 specialist private retirement homes: but by 2033 there would be an extra 3.5 million households aged over 65 years, a 60 per cent increase. Without suitable and affordable accommodation, these demographic changes could result in significant housing problems for elderly people.
Source: Michael Ball, Robert Blanchette, Anupam Nanda, and Peter Wyatt, Housing Markets and Independence in Old Age: Expanding the opportunities, Henley Business School
Links: Report | Reading University press release
Date: 2011-May
A report examined the future of extra care housing provision, including its alignment with the agenda of personalization, choice, and individual budgets in health and social care.
Source: Tim Brown, Housing an Ageing Population: The Extra Care Solution, Keepmoat
Links: Report | Keepmoat press release | DMU press release | Inside Housing report
Date: 2011-Apr
A report examined demographic and policy trends to support informed decision making regarding future housing need assessment for older people in Northern Ireland.
Source: Chris Paris, Analysis of the Future Need and Demand for Appropriate Models of Accommodation and Associated Services for Older People, Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Links: Report
Date: 2011-Mar
A report examined demographic and policy trends to support informed decision making regarding future housing need assessment for older people in Northern Ireland.
Source: Chris Paris, Analysis of the Future Need and Demand for Appropriate Models of Accommodation and Associated Services for Older People, Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Links: Report
Date: 2011-Mar
An article examined the workforce implications of the provision of housing with care, focusing on older people with high support needs.
Source: Jill Manthorpe and Jo Moriarty, 'Housing or care workers? Who is supporting older people with high support needs?', Journal of Integrated Care, Volume 19 Number 1
Links: Abstract
Date: 2011-Feb
A report examined older people's housing, care, and support needs, focusing on the commercial opportunities that they offered to housing providers.
Source: Breaking the Mould: Re-visioning older people's housing, National Housing Federation
Date: 2011-Feb
A report examined the ways in which local councils and their health partners were addressing the challenges involved in the 'joint strategic needs assessment' of the housing and support needs of vulnerable adults.
Source: Jean Rollinson, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment: Vulnerable adults, housing and support – A collection of case studies, Local Government Improvement and Development
Links: Report
Date: 2011-Jan
