Housing and care related resources

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

Resources beginning with S

• Safety in the home
  Advice and information for carers of people with dementia about how best to tackle safety in the home. It covers falls, medicines, smoking, drinking, cooking, bathing, fires, driving etc
• Sample Volunteer Agreements
  A sample agreement between an organisation and a volunteer
• Screening and Police Checking
  Information and guidance about screening volunteers for criminal records, and police checks.
• Secure and Assured Tenancies
  This information sheet sets out the rights of tenants and the differences between assured and secure tenancies
• Security in Your Home
  This leaflet explains some simple steps that you can take to make you feel more safe and secure in your home.
• Seeking Consent : working with older people
  Legal and best practice guidance for people who are involved in the treatment of older people on seeking consent from those in their care
• SeniorLink
  SeniorLink is a commercial service provided by Help the Aged. The service will equip you with a base unit with a button on it. Whenever you want to use the SeniorLink Service, you either press the button on the base unit, or the accompanying pendant or wrist strap which can be pressed from anywhere in the home or garden.
• Separated or divorced?
  A basic guide to benefits and tax credits for people who are separated or divorced
• Shared Equity: Using the Private Fianance Initiative to boost extra care housing
  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 this approach enables a local authority to achieve a number of new or remodelled developments within one contract, with the potential for efficiency savings and a consistent
  approach to quality of design and services through a long-term partnership with one provider.
• Shared Ownership for People with Disabilities
  Housing LIN Case Study no 12. A specialist shared ownership scheme managed by Notting Hill Home Ownership (part of Notting Hill Housing Trust), which gives people with disabilties more choice in their housing and enables them to have the security of their own homes.
• Shelter
  Shelter has expertise in housing law, and offers information about a variety issues, including homelessness, housing rights, private renting and home ownership. You can download guides on topics such as private tenants' rights, housing benefit and housing association tenancies.
• Sheltered Housing
  An introduction to sheltered housing and general advice on choosing accommodation.
• Sheltered Housing & Supporting People
  Supporting People is the new programme for delivering and paying for housing support. It was introduced in April 2003, when the planning and funding of housing support was transferred to local authorities. The majority of older people who receive this support live in sheltered housing. This leaflet explains the system and tells where to find help.
• Sheltered Housing & the Resettlement of Older Homeless People.
  Briefing paper on a report produced for Help the Aged/HACT. It aims to stimulate debate about good practice, and is based on research that involved a survey of staff working at 21 English Churches Housing Group's 21 sheltered schemes in the NE of England. It describes problems experienced, and makes recommendations
• Sheltered Housing Has Changed - Nine key questions & answers
  Describes sheltered housing, what it provides, the role of the scheme manager, eligibility, costs, benefits, & what to look for.
• Sheltered Housing Workbook
  HQN sheltered housing workbook asks the sort of questions that the Housing Inspectorate is likely to raise during a Best Value (BV) inspection, and has been updated to include the Supporting People programme which will be incorporated into BV reviews. The workbook is aimed at helping local authorities and housing associations (RSLs) undertake an honest assessment of their provision and performance in sheltered housing and plan for continuous improvement
• Sheltered Tenants Information Pack
  A handbook for residents living in Angus Council's sheltered accommodation. It includes the role of support staff, use of communal areas etc
• Shelternet
  Shelternet is an online service by Shelter, and offers information and advice on issues such as homelessness, private renting and home ownership. It tells you where to go for advice if you become homeless, if you have problems with your landlord or if you are in danger of eviction or having your home repossessed. They also provide factsheets that you can download and links to other organisations. Much of their information is geared towards younger people.
• Shingles
  Information about Shingles, who is at risk, how to recognise it, how it is treated, complications especially pain, and pain management.
• Shopmobility
  Shopmobility is a scheme that lends manual wheelchairs, powered wheelchairs, and powered scooters to members of the public who have limited mobility, so that they can shop and visit leisure and commercial facilities within a town, city, or shopping centre, The website has a directory of these services
• Shopping From Home : your distance shopping rights explained
  A guide to shopping by telephone, TV, internet, catalogue or magazine advertisement. It explains what you are enitled to, tips to avoid problems, and what to do if things go wrong
• Should I Move? Housing Choices for Older People
  This book provides valuable assistance to older people by examining a range of alternative accommodation as well as help and support to remain in their own home. Also covers heating, insulation, improvements and repairs, feeling safe, help with housing costs. Includes a useful questionnaire to help put things into perspective.
• Should I stay or should I go?
  This report argues for development of housing options services to support older people to make active & informed choices about their accommodation, bearing in mind their holistic needs.
• Should I stay or should I go? : National Programme Evaluation 2002-05
  Evaluation of a programme that had four key aims.
  
  1. To stimulate the development of sustainable local housing options services
  2. To support, monitor and evaluate the local services
  3. To develop an evidence base and identify the value of these services
  4. To produce replicable models of service
• Sick or Disabled
  A basic guide to benefits and tax credits for people of all ages with a physical or mental illness - and for people who look after them
• Small things matter - the key role of handyperson services
  This report examines the current provision of small repairs and minor
  adaptations services being provided by the main older people’s voluntary
  and community sector organisations in England and highlights options
  for future service development. It is aimed particularly at service planners,
  commissioners and providers.
• Smart Home - A Definition
  Overview of smart home techology & what it can do, from research carried out by Intertek for the Department of Trade & Industry.
• Smoke Alarms For The Home
  Information and advice about coosing, buying, installing and looking after smoke alarms
• Smoking & how To Give Up
  Information about the effect of smoking on arteries and the heart, with tips and advice about how to give up smoking
• Social Care - Choosing the Right Service for You
  Advice and information for people who need care, their families and carers. It includes financial aspects and role of local authorities in undertaking assessments of need.
• Social Care Factsheet
  Explanation of the term "social care". It also describes the role of the new single Inspectorate for Social Care (CSCI) in England, set up in April 2004. It combines the former work of thev Social Services Inspectorate (SSI), the SSI/Audit Commission joint Review Team, and the National Care Standards Commission.
• Social Security Benefit Rates
  A guide to the current social security benefit rates
• Social Well-Being in Extra Care Housing
  Factsheet 24 explores social well-being and how it can be promoted in extra care housing. It is aimed at those involved in commissioning, planning, providing and managing extra care housing.
• Solicitors for the elderly
  Webpage of Solicitors for the Elderly, a national association of lawyers who are committed to providing and promoting a high quality service for older people
• Sources of Funding & Obtaining Equipment for Disabled & Older People
  Information about the funding & equipment sources for older & disabled people. It covers benefits, statutory equipment provision & grants, funding from charities & grant giving trusts; specific sources of funding, and short term equipment hire/loans.
• SSAFA - Forces Help
  SSAFA provide a variety of services for the serving and ex-service community, including housing in the form of residential care homes, bungalows for the severely disabled, semi-sheltered accommodation and temporary accommodation for separated families. They also have holiday apartments in the Isle of Wight.
  
  Their website has information on their welfare and housing schemes for elderly and disabled service and ex-service men and their dependants and provides factsheets you can download and links to other organisations.
• Stairlifts and Homelifts
  Information and advice for people considering having a stairlift or homelift installed in their home
• Stakeholder Pensions and decision trees
  This describes Stakeholder Pensions, and contains information and advice for people who are considering one.
• Stannah
  Their website gives you information on a variety of products such as stairlifts (for those of you who find it difficult to climb stairs), homelifts (small lifts that will fit into any home and can accommodate wheelchairs), and powerchairs.
• Statistics on Extra Care Sheltered Housing in England
  An analysis of extra care housing provision against demographics by English region, county and district. A companion volume, 'A Guide to Extra Care Housing in England', provides full details of each scheme / development. Note that a copy of the statistical report is offered free to purchasers of the Guide.
• Stay in Touch - A guide to telephones & services for older & disabled people
  Comprehensive information about the types of available telephones, special features, equipment, accessories and services for disabled people
• Staying Healthy in Later Life
  Advice and information about how to keep physically active, the importance and value of exercise and activities, healthy eating (foods to avoid & foods to eat), other healthy lifestyle issues, and health checks
• Staying in your Home
  Information and advice in plain English for older & disabled people about how to arrange repairs and adaptations in Newcastle upon Tyne. This is aimed at homeowners, private and social housing tenants.
• Staying Put: The Best Move I'll Never Make
  This report charts the success of Anchor Staying Put projects in assisting many older people to improve the condition of their housing and ensure they can remain living in warm and safe accommodation. The report will be useful to all those who are involved in providing housing services for older people and in particular to local authorities who are interested in establishing Staying Put projects in their areas.
• Staying Steady
  Information and advice to help people improve their balance and mobility. It looks at the impact anxiety about falling can have on people's lives, and explains what help is available
• Step up to Safety
  Practical advice & information about how to safely use stairs
• Substance Users and Supported Housing: What's the Score - 3 reports combined: Briefing Paper, Lessons and Learning Points, Case Studies
  The briefing paper is written for commissioners, providers and funders of
  treatment, support and housing for substance misusers. It gives an overview of the relationship between drug and alcohol service provision and the delivery of housing with support.
  The briefing paper and two more detailed reports linked to it are designed
  to promote discussion and to explore models, examples and learning points.
• Suffolk Guide to Sheltered and Retirement Housing
  
• Support Plans - A Good Practice Guide
  This model Support Plan is a tool for working with a service user in a sheltered housing context.
  It also enables temporary staff to become aware of the aspirations and expectations of service users with the view of maintaining a consistency of service.
  Contents include 2 case studies, at a glance case study, tenant care package record sheet, support planning sheet, tenant assessment record, good practice guidelines for supporting people with changing & complex support needs.
• Supporting Diversity in Tower Hamlets - Housing LIN Case Study no.7
  Case study of an Extra Care housing scheme for Bangladeshi and Asian Elders in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
• Supporting People - a guide and checklist for sheltered housing staff
  A guide for staff in sheltered housing about the Supporting People regime, service reviews and the Quality Assessment Framework
• Supporting People - a guide to user involvement for organisations providing housing related support services
  A guide for staff and managers in organisations that provide housing related support services. It aims to encourage effective involvement of service users in all aspects of the support service. It sets out principles and opportunities, offers ideas, and provides a framework for planning, implementing and evaluating initiatives.
• Supporting People - paying for supported accommodation
  Explanation of the changes introduced with the Supporting People grant in 2003, after which housing related support has been dealt with separately from rent. Explains the help in paying the support charge
• Supporting People Directory of Services
  Information about the ODPM website containing a directory of housing support services throughout England & Wales
• Supporting People Knowledge Card - Fairer Charging
  Information about charging for housing support services funded by the Supporting People Grant. Fairer Charging (for Home Care & Other Non-Residential Social Services) is the statutory guidance issued by the Department of Health that governs locally set charging policies for SP funded services. This contains responses to frequently asked questions such as who can apply for a Fairer Charging assessment and how.
• Supporting People with Dementia in Extra Care Housing: an introduction to the issues
  An overview of developing and managing Extra Care Housing for people with dementia. It accompanies a video on Extra Care Housing & Dementia, available from the Housing LIN. Factsheet 14
• Sustainable Planning for Housing in an Ageing Population
  A guide for regional-level strategies. A starting point for anyone engaged in regional-level strategy formulation.
• Switched on to Telecare: Providing health and care support through home-based telecare monitoring in the UK and the US
  Report on a conference session at the 10th World Mulit-Conferene on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA