Introduction to the issues facing Extra Care Housing in rural communities. It highlights the ageing of rural populations and the pressures this places on commissioners of housing with care for older p...
Summary of essential facts about commissioning extra care and other housing based solutions for care. Most important facts about funding, what is involved, who has to be involved and how long project...
Focus on issues around providing specific extra care housing for BME elders. Assessment checklist for commissioners and providers to consider when developing extra care strategies....
This summarises the current policy & legislative context for "green" and "intelligent" housing. It presents examples of extra care and general needs housing developments incorporating such technology,...
This guide aims to support urban and regional planning professionals engaged in forward planning and development management to respond to the growing demand for extra care housing in England...
The purpose of this document is to provide an introduction to the field for those from a variety of professional backgrounds and organisations who may be working together to commission new patterns of...
This is a tool designed to assess the health risks of housing and the residential environment at the scale of a neighbourhood, housing stock, or administrative area. For each health risk, the tool ena...
Case study 38 offers an overview of Spring Bank Court, discussing location, planning, funding, services and facilities and an analysing financial savings to the PCT...
This study provides an example of how key data on the household characteristics of older people can inform and underpin local planning strategies and documents such as Housing Strategies for Older Peo...
This document provides a toolkit for undertaking work that will support a whole system approach to planning and developing accommodation and care.
It is good practice rather than mandatory and has be...
Essential information for care and nursing home owners interested in developing extra care housing. Information also for local authority and health commissioners who wish to stimulate the care home se...
This advice is based on the findings of the project Remodelling Sheltered
Housing and Residential Care Homes to Extra Care Housing, carried out by a multi-disciplinary team of two social gerontologis...
This case study explores one approach to procuring specialist forms of housing for older people and vulnerable adults, Extra Care Housing (ECH), through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Typically...
Planning, designing and delivering housing that older people want. Resource pack:
A: Older people and Housing - understanding demand and supply for older people's housing, care and support
B: Devel...
CD Rom and Workbook - Strategic Commissioning for Older People's Services. Workbook designed to help partnerships develop better commissioning to fit the outcomes they want to achieve. It builds on 'P...
The purpose of this Housing Design and Management Guide is to offer advice and pass on experience about Very Sheltered Housing. The Guide takes as its starting point the beginning of the design and de...
This report highlights the finding of a Housing LIN survey, and draws out some of the implications for commissioners, developers, funders and providers of extra care housing....
Executive summary of the regional analysis for extra care housing in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Supply and demand over the next 10 years....
Regional analysis for extra care housing in the Yorkshire and Humber region. This report identifies the supply and demand for extra care housing over the next 10 years, taking into account demographic...