This resource pack jointly published by the Housing LIN and ADASS is intended to support local strategic commissioning, planning and investment decisions to help transform and improve the range of housing choices for older people.
The Personnel Social Service Research Unit and Housing LIN have jointly published the evaluation of the Department of Health’s Extra Care Housing Fund.
This briefing paper by Jeremy Porteus, Director of the Housing learning and improvement network, provides an overview of the health and social care ‘dividend’ that can be achieved by closer integration and partnership working with housing.
The International Longevity Centre – UK has published a research report which suggests that Extra Care Housing could play a major part in delivering better health outcomes and reducing the long term care costs facing older people.
The December 2010 edition of the European Network on Independent Living newsletter is available to download from the ENIL website.
Future plans for adult social care services have been published in A Vision for Adult Social Care: Capable Communities and Active Citizens.
The Assisted Living Action Network will be holding a series of four networking seminars over the next year to discuss the key issues, challenges and opportunities in the assisted living technology market.
The International Dementia Excellence Awards are designed to recognise organisations and individuals who have worked to improve the quality of life of people with dementia.
Launching a major event by getting everyone on their feet for a rousing song or two may sound more football than NHS, but that was precisely how the highly-successful South West Dementia Partnership Summit 2010 began at Taunton Racecourse in April.
The Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (HAPPI) has gathered good practice from across Europe and put together new and creative proposals to help ensure that future housing will create sustainable and inclusive homes and neighbourhoods which our ageing population want and can afford to live in.