Advice on housing & care for older people. Sheltered housing, retirement housing, extra care housing for the elderly

How to use this site

Whether you are thinking ahead, or want to find a service immediately, HousingCare.org can help.  Enter the different parts of the site using the Menu on the left.  Red choices will take you to an introductory page; pink ones will take you straight to your choice.

Making choices

is the starting point for thinking about different ways of approaching the problems that arise as we get older.

  • Guide to options is a short but comprehensive presentation of the main alternatives you might want to consider – staying at home, moving to more suitable accommodation, and so on.
  • Our Housing appraisal tool takes a different approach.  It’s a short questionnaire entitled ‘How well does your home suit you?’  Once you’ve answered a few questions, it will propose reading materials, websites or services that might be helpful.
  • The Library contains our extensive collection of factsheets, books and websites – and even a few videos.  Use this if you want to home in on a particular question or problem.
  • Glossary
  • is our ‘jargonbuster’ – short, clear explanations of some of the terms used by housing and care professionals.
  • EAC Advice Line
  • explains how our own advisory service can step in to provide any help you need in using the website, or when you’re ready to move on and find, organise or pay for any services you decide you need.
  • Our new Equity release guide is a min-website of its own, the product of a joint venture between EAC and Retirement Plus, a leading provider of equity release products for home owners.  Equity release means raising money from your home.  There are many things to consider before doing this, and our guide provides a fully independent introduction.

Search For

leads to all our ‘finder services’; They will help you find housing, care, advice or practical help local to you, anywhere in the UK. Over the last 15 years, EAC has compiled the huge amount of information that is available on this website. Our current work is focused particularly on newer forms of retirement housing that provide or facilitate care when needed - these may be called assisted living, extra care, close care or very sheltered housing. Also we have tracked down and documented most retirement villages in the UK. Most of what this website has to offer is contained in the 'Search For' menus or our Library.

Help

does just what it should.  It offers more guidance on using the site, gives answers to common questions, shows how to make the site easier to read if you have a visual impairment, and provides complete map of what’s in this site.

About HousingCare

is probably self-explanatory.

For Providers

is for organisations that provide housing or services for older people.

For Advisors

is for people who provide information or advice to older people, whether in statutory or voluntary settings.

Making Choices
Guide to options
Housing appraisal tool
Library
Glossary
EAC advice line
Other advice services
Equity release guide
Search For
Retirement housing
Care homes
Home improvement agencies
HousingCare abroad
Hospice care
For Advisors
Housing appraisal tool
Library
EAC services
For Providers
Update housing info
Update care home info
Quality of Info Mark
HousingCare.org services
Library
EAC services
Search for entertainers
About HousingCare.org
Credits
Link to us
Feedback
News
About EAC
Help
How do I use this site?
Faq
Accessibility
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Email: info@eac.org.uk