Housing for an ageing population: the case for home adaptation

Event date

Agenda

10.00  Registration

10.30   Welcome from Professor Jim McEwen, Chair, Dunhill Medical Trust and Professor Robin Means, Chair, Care & Repair England

10.45   Panel discussion  and audience Q&A

Confirmed panellists:

  • Sue Adams OBE, Chief Executive, Care & Repair England
  • Rachael Docking, Senior Evidence Manager, Centre for Ageing Better
  • TBC Department for Health and Social Care
  • Jeremy Porteus, Chief Executive, Housing LIN

12.15    LUNCH

13.00    Introductions from selection panel

  • John Ransford, Trustee, Dunhill Medical Trust
  • Anna Dixon, Chief Executive, Centre for Ageing Better
  • Julia Park, Head of Housing Research, Levitt Bernstein
  • Sarah Pickup, OBE Deputy Chief Executive, Local Government Association
  • Bill Rollinson, User representative
  • Professor Anthea Tinker CBE, Professor of Social Gerontology, King’s College London
  • Professor Martin Vernon, National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care, NHS England

13.15    Short-listed applicant presentations to main panel

15.15    Refreshment break (for panel deliberations)

15.45    Awarding of grant(s)