Ageing Population and Extra Care Housing  

Title: Extra care housing (GPN8)
Publisher: RTPI and Department of Health
Date: October 2007
Audience: General
Resource: Guidance
Description: Guidance to support the planning response to the growing demand for a broad range of extra care housing, as part of meeting the housing needs of an ageing population in the UK.

Title: Delivering lifetime homes, lifetime neighbourhoods: a national strategy for housing in an ageing society
Publisher: Department for Communities and Local Government
Date: 2008
Audience: General
Resource: Strategy
Description: Outlines plans for making sure that there is enough appropriate housing available in future to relieve the forecasted unsustainable pressures on homes, health and social care services.

Title: Raising the stakes: promoting extra care housing
Publisher: Housing Corporation
Date: April 2008
Audience: General
Resource: Research report and guidance
Description: Results of a project aimed to clarify what comprises ‘extra care’ for older people and to establish shared standards for provision. A commonly agreed definition of extra care and standards could not be agreed. Outputs do include a quality of information (QI) mark, that encourage providers to give better information on their facilities, services, residents, ethos and outcome measures.

Title: Housing LIN
Publisher: Department of Health
Date: Ongoing
Audience: General
Resource: Website containing a wealth of guidance and information
Description: Housing LIN is the national network for promoting new ideas and supporting change in the delivery of housing, care and support services for older and vulnerable adults, including people with disabilities and long term conditions.

Title: Growing old in a changing climate: meeting the challenges of an ageing population and climate change
Publisher: Stockholm Environment Institute
Date: 2008
Audience: General
Resource: Workshop report
Description: Sets out a number of recommendations including climate change proofing the homes of older people and improving transport for older people.

Title: Older people and wellbeing
Publisher: Institute for Public Policy Research
Date: July 2008
Audience: General
Resource: Report
Description: Describes some of the key social trends in the UK and assesses how they may be impacting on older people and their wellbeing.

Title: Extra care housing: what is it?
Publisher: Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)
Date: Revised 2008
Audience: General
Resource: Factsheet
Description: Gives essential basic information, explains the various forms extra care housing takes and describes key ingredients and central principles.

Title: Planning for continuing care retirement communities: issues and good practice
Publisher: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Date: 2006
Audience: General
Resource: Summary of full report
Description: Provides analysis of current and emerging policy and practice. It is intended to provide practical assistance to those involved in the planning and development process.

Title: Older people’s housing strategies: key policy drivers
Publisher: Housing and older people development group
Date: 2006
Audience: General
Resource: Report
Description: Explores the relationship between the housing agenda and the agenda for older age. It looks at the ways in which gaps in policy at the national level are affecting regional strategies and local policies and implementation.

Title: Models of extra care and retirement communities
Publisher: Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)
Date: 2004
Audience: General
Resource: Factsheet
Description: An explanation of the different types of retirement community and examples of how key decisions about the choice of model are made.

Title: Extra care housing toolkit
Publisher: Care Services Improvement Partnership (Department of Health)
Date: 2006
Audience: Housing, care and planning professionals
Resource: Toolkit
Description: Assists in the development of extra care housing in the context of the wider accommodation and service needs of older people. It offers a structured approach to developing policy and locally based initiatives and a variety of tools designed to facilitate thinking about extra care.

Title: Action plan: older people’s housing
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland
Date: June 2009
Audience:General - Scotland
Resource: Guidance
Description: Action Plan focusing on older people’s housing in Scotland, exploring the policy and practice position and the pivotal role it will have in helping to deliver support to meet needs of the rapidly ageing population.

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