Housing and care related resources

This section contains an a-z listing of all resouces stored in the HousingCare.Org library.

Resources beginning with H

• Having Our Say - A Housing Action Kit for Older People
  Information and statistics on the planning and funding of housing for older people, and how older people can be involved.
• Health & Housing Glossary
  A glossary of health and housing terminology
• Health & Safety for Volunteers
  Employers of volunteers have a duty of care towards them. This factsheet explains the legal obligations regarding their health and safety, as well as good practice
• Health & Safety in Construction - technical services in Home Improvement Agencies
  Good practice guide about construction health & safety for Home Improvement Agencies. Includes good practice, the need for risk assessment, and H&S responsibilities.
• Health & Social Care Guide for Wales
  What can be expected of Health & Social Care Services in Wales, and how to get further information
• Health and Ageing
  Explains how age can affect the health of older people, provides some general information and statistics about older people's health and explains some of the most common illnesses in more detail.
• Health at 50+ website
  Health information and advice for people aged 50 years and over. Topics include statistics on ageing, information about medical conditions and diseases, well-being, lifestyle, the practicalities of housing and money, and the changing relationships in older age
• Health Benefits
  Explains the various health charges and will help you to work out whether you will have to pay none, some or all of these health costs.
• Health Difficulties caused by Hot and Cold Weather
  Information about how to cope in very cold and very hot weather. It covers energy saving tips, which can help to reduce your utility bills, as well as detailing government schemes available to help with energy costs.
• Health Difficulties: how to cope with changing needs
  It explains what help is available froom your local Council and the NHS if you develop difficulties due to ill-health or disability.This includes support inside and outside the home and financial assistance
• Health Risks & Health Inequalities in Housing: an Assessment Tool
  This is a toll 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 enables a judgement to be recorded about the level of health risks attributable to unhealthy or unsafe housing conditions.
• Healthy Bones
  Advice on how to keep bones strong and healthy as we get older.
• Healthy Eating
  Eating well means enjoying your food and having plenty of variety. Here is a guide to the foods you should try to eat each day.
• Healthy Eating
  The basic principles of a heathy diet
• Healthy Eating & Arthritis
  Information and advice about diet for people with arthritis, and how diet can influence the different kinds of arthritis
• Help at Home; what may be available in your local area
  Outlines the types of help that may be available in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors to keep you in your own home.
• Help if you live in a care home
  A basic guide to benefits that people may be able to get living in a care home, and the effects on benefits you already have
• Help if you live in a care home (Arabic Version)
  Basic guide to the benefits that may be available to people living in care homes
• Help if you live in a care home (Bengali Version)
  Basic guide to the benefits that may be available to people living in care homes
• Help if you live in a care home (Chinese Version)
  Basic guide to benefits that may be available to people living in a care home
• Help if you live in a care home (Gujarati Version)
  A Basic guide to benefits that may be available to people living in a care home
• Help if you live in a care home (Punjabi Version)
  A basic guide to benefits that may be available if you live in a care home
• Help if you live in a care home (Somali Version)
  Basic Guide to the benefits that may be available to people living in care homes
• Help if you live in a care home (Vietnamese Version)
  Brief guide to benefits that may be available to people who live in a care home
• Help if you live in a care home (Welsh language version)
  A basic guide to the benefits that may be available to people in care homes
• Help in your home
  Information and advice leaflet about the key aspects of obtaining help at home, i.e. who provides the help & how to get it, assessment of need, coming out of hospital, payment for home care, Direct Payments, Independent Living Fund, Grants, Benefits, equipment, and making a complaint.
• Help the Aged SeniorLine
  SeniorLine is the free telephone advice service of Help the Aged. Their trained advice workers can help with issues such as claiming benefits, housing advice, getting help at home and entitlement to a bus pass. The SeniorLine telephone number is 0808 800 6565
• Help with Continence
  Provides information about incontinence, encourages the promotion of continence and suggests where to find further help.
• Help with Health Costs
  Information about the concessions and available help with the range of health costs - including dental treatment, opticians, hospital, care homes etc
• Help with Health Costs
  Describes how the NHS low income scheme might help towards the cost of NHS dental treatment, glasses & travel to hospital for people who are on low incomes but not eligible for Pensions Credit.
• Help with Heating
  Advice and information on the help that is available to assist with heating costs and other fuel problems.
• Help with Heating
  Advice and information on the help that is available to assist with heating costs and other fuel problems.
• Help with looking for work or starting your own business
  This is aimed at people who are 50 years and over. It covers information and advice on how to find a job, welfare benfits, starting a business/self employment, volunteering and where to access career guidance
• Helping People Living with Cancer
  Expert information and advice about cancer, the latest news about cancer services, helpful organisations and publications, and frequently asked questions.
• Helping visually impaired people in their homes: assistive technology
  Findings of a project, commissioned by Thomas Pocklington Trust, that aimed to determine the needs of visually impaired people. This comprised surveys of user needs and existing assistive technology, and a gap analysis. It found a wide range of available devices (equipment and products) that reflects the large number of tasks required for daily living
• High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
  Information about the causes, risk factors and treatment of hypertension.
• Hobbies, Pastimes, & Everyday Activities
  Advice & information for people caring for someone with dementia to help them find activities that can improve their quality of life
• Holiday Care
  Holiday Care' s website tells you how to contact them for information on accessible hotels and visitor attractions throughout the UK and how to obtain a range of information sheets on overseas destinations for the older and/or disabled traveller. The website also gives information on how to book accommodation through Holiday Care's Reservations Service.
• Home Care Agencies: what to look for
  Information about home care and nursing agencies, the minimum standards that they should meet, and how to complain
• Home Care Service for People with Dementia in Poole
  Housing LIN Case Study no 13. An example of pioneering specialist home care service for people with dementia living in their own homes within the Borough of Poole in Dorset
• Home Care: using Direct Payments
  Information about the Direct Payments System & how payments can be received. Direct Payments is money provided to people with high care needs, by Social Services, so that those people can choose & purchase care services to meet their assessed needs. This is instead of Social Services arranging and purchasing the services.
• Home Improvement Agencies - Delivering Government Strategies across Health, Housing & Social Care
  The role of Home Improvement Agencies, and the need for cross egency working to meet needs
• Home Improvement Agencies - the Key to Independent Living
  Expllanation of what Home Improvement Agencies do, why they're needed, and how they're funded
• Home Improvement Agency Survey questionnaire
  A short questionnaire to gather information from Home Improvement Agencies for inclusion in the 'Service Locator' search in HousingCare.org.
• Home Improvement Trust
  The Home Improvement Trust is a 'not for profit' company providing a national grant support service under the Special Grants Programme of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. Its aim is to make available to older and disabled people alternative, affordable funding to supplement the Housing Renewal Grant programme.
• Home Repairs & Improvements
  Information and advice for home owners and tenants about help with home repairs, and adaptations. It includes Local Authority help and grants, paying for and adapting the home, the role of Home Improvement Agencies, arranging for work privately, and trade associations
• HOMES
  HOMES offers a variety of services, including HOMESWAP, a UK-wide register of council, housing association and housing co-operative tenants who want to swap homes.
• Homeshare
  The Homeshare service is based on the principle of barter. The householder offers a bedroom and shared use of the home's facilities in return for practical help, companionship and security. The homesharer pays for his or her own food, telephone and other personal expenses. No money ever changes hands between the two parties. Homeshare Co-ordinators assess the needs and preferences of older people and find homesharers to match those needs.
• Homeshare International website
  Information about Homeshare International, which promotes homesharing, i.e. whereby a householder offers accommodation in exchange for an agreed level of help, such as help with household tasks and/or some financial help
• Hospice Care
  Description of hospice care, and the type of services and staff provided
• Hospital Discharge Arrangements
  This factsheet describes the arrangements that should be made for people leaving hospital and explains which services might be available and how to find out about and obtain them.
• Hospital Discharge Arrangements
  This factsheet describes the arrangements that should be made for people leaving hospital and explains which services might be available and how to find out about and obtain them.
• Hospital Discharge in England
  Explains your options when you leave hospital and the responsibilities of health authorities and local authorities in arranging care for older people.
• Hospital Discharge in Scotland
  This explains what should happen before and during your hospital discharge to ensure that it is planned and safe. It also explains how and when you can get further information to make the experience more positive and help you feel more in control.
• Hospital Discharge in Wales
  This explains what should happen before and during your hospital discharge to ensure that it is planned and safe. It also explains how and when you can get further information to make the experience more positive and help you feel more in control.
• Hospitals - What to Expect
  Information and advice for older people in hospital, & their carers and relatives, about being in hospital (including rights), and going home. This includes description of the role of different staff who work in hospitals.
• Householders
  Advice from moving hom to helping the local community & environment. Covers home buying or letting, renting, home improvement & money matters
• Housing & Community Care Checklist ; summary
  Guidance that local authorities and other agencies need to consider when developing housing strategies and community cale plans. It forms the basis for joint planning and working.
• Housing & Crime - safe as houses
  Some hard facts about crime and examination of ways to overcome it, demonstrating how RSLs work with their tenants and partner organisations to fight crime in their communities
• Housing & Health - reducing health inequalities
  This factsheet was produced jointly with Health & Housing, a charity which promotes the links between good health & good housing. It looks at Government initiatives and the work of RSL's to reduce health inequalities, and asks what more can be done.
• Housing & Older People : time for fresh thinking & new ideas
  Promotes the need for fresh thinking about older peoples housing needs, in view of the growth in owner occupation and the links between health and housing etc. Older people should be actively involved in service planning, and alternatives to reidential care, new models of shared ownership, and extension of the Decent Homes Standard to the private sector are proposed. Service planning must actively involve
• Housing Advice & Information Services Directory questionnaire Information Services Directory questionnaire
  A questionnaire for Advice & Information services that would like to be included in both the printed and online versions of the Directory of Housing Advice and Information Services.
• Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
  Information on Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit from April 2007.
• Housing Choices and Aspirations of Older People
  Research from the New Horizons Programme - Eight focus groups of 'younger' and 'older' older people explore the influence on participants' housing decisions, and their future housing intentions and aspirations.
• Housing Code: England. Consultation Draft
  Draft Code of Practice to help eliminate discrimination in housing. Aimed at all housing providers, Chapter 1 is an introduction, Chapter 2 looks at the legal context, Chapter 3 makes recommendations on good practice in 9 key housing areas, and Chapter 4 gives advice on training, monitoring and impact assessment. The consultation period ends on 15/08/05.
• Housing Decisions & Options in Later Life
  Information about the reasons why people think about moving, options for staying at home, moving home, specialised housing, and the types of housing providers
• Housing LIN
  This is the part of the Department of Health's Integrated Care Network website that focuses on the work of the Extra Care Housing LIN (Learning and Improvement Network). It offers a broad collection of factsheets, case studies and good practice examples showing how providers and commissioners in the public, voluntary and private sectors are developing new models of housing with care for older people.
• Housing LIN (Learning & Improvement Network)
  The Housing LIN brings together groups of senior staff within local authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Registered Social Landlords and the private sector interested in forging closer partnerships in delivering housing with extra care solutions for older people.
• Housing Matters
  Practical information & advice about available housing choices, including help to stay put, considering moving, moving home, moving in with family, moving to sheltered housing.
• Housing Ombudsman Service
  Information about this service which deals with complaints from residents (or their representatives) about Registered Social Landlords, and private landlords that are registered with the service
• Housing Options
  Information to help people in a range of situations from facing homelessness to finding their present home inadequate or difficult to manage. It includes a section to help people stay in their home if improvements to their home or financial situation or help could be arranged.
• Housing Options Advice for Older People : A Self Training Kit for Advisers
  A kit to to help generalist advisers, or anyone who works with older people, to develop their knowledge and understanding of housing options for older people.
• Housing Options Advice for Older People: a self-training kit for advisers
  This toolkit provides a broad overview of the housing options in older age. It aims to help generalist advisers, or anyone who works with older people, to develop their knowledge and understanding of housing options for older people.
• Housing Options Finder
  Enables you to search EAC's entire database of sheltered, retirement and extra care housing developments throughout the UK.
• Housing Options for Older People (HOOP) - A self-assessment form for people wondering whether or not to move home and seeking information on options
  A questionnaire designed to help older people make decisions about meeting their housing.
• Housing Options for Older People (HOOP) - Report on a developmental project to refine a housing option appraisal tool for use by older people
  Detailed review of the development and testing of a questionnaire-based tool, designed to help older people assess their present housing situation as a basis for making decisions about the future.
• Housing with care for later life - A literature review
  This report presents a comprehensive overview of the most recent evidence related to new and emerging models of housing with care for later life.
  Reflecting the current emphasis on developing evidence-based policy and practice, the review focuses on primary research and service evaluations, drawing out key messages for service providers and commissioners regarding how best to meet the housing and care needs of older people in an ageing society.
• Housing: adapting your home to stay independent
  If you are registered disabled and need to make changes to your
  home in order to be able to live independently, you may be eligible for a Disabled Facilities Grant. This factsheet explains what a Disabled Facilities Grant is, what the eligibility criteria are, how to apply for one, and what will happen when you have made your application.
• Housing: How to pay for the maintenance of your home
  Information about available local authority grants & eligibility, HIA's, and other sources of funding and help e.g. small job schemes, Equity Release, Home Improvement Trust
• How do I get a hearing aid?
  Information about how to get a hearing aid, and the difference between NHS and private hearing aids
• How Health & Care Professionals can Help
  Describes how health & care professionals can help people with dementia and their carers with advice and services
• How to .. Cope with loneliness
  Describes how loneliness can affect people, ways of alleviating loneliness, and agencies that can help
• How to .. Cope with memory loss
  Answers common questions about memory loss. Describes common problems, hoe memory can be preserved, and what can be done to improve memory loss.
• How to beat the Bogus Caller
  Clear information about bogus callers, and how to avoid them
• How to get an Extra Care Programme in Practice - Housing LIN Case Study no.6
  Example of how one Social Services Department managed the process of putting in place a pragramme of Extra Care
• How to get information and advice about your investments
  Information about where to seek advice about your savings & investments
• How to make a complaint
  Information and guidance for people who want to make a complaint about NHS or local authority services
• How we can help
  Wide range of information for carers, including what they can expect from local Social Services and Health Services, ideas for getting around, a health quiz, equipment & shopping, Welfare Benefits check, support for black & minority ethnic carers, and help to find local Carers Centres
• How well does your home suit you? (the mini-HOOP tool)
  A shortened and simplified version of the original HOOP questionnaire, designed to help older people review their present living arrangements, identify any problems, and find information to help solve them.
• How will the new law on age discrimination affect you?
  On 1st October 2006 new legislation (The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006) will come into force in the UK. It will provide protection against age discrimination in employment and education for people of all ages. This gives an overview of the proposals
• HUB Services Made Simple
  ODPM proposal to co-ordinate Information Technology and provide comprehensive information about Supporting People services and providers of support services to professionals and the public.