You can download the chat report here.

The cross-government Older People’s Housing Taskforce announced last year in a Parliamentary Debate is committed to exploring how to provide better choice, quality and security of housing for older people.

This Lovell Later Living session put the spotlight on how the sector can boost and accelerate the delivery of both standalone later living solutions and mixed tenure solutions as part of wider age-friendly place-based community regeneration. The session:

  • Shared customer insight to what older people expect and need in later life, evidencing why we should challenge the status quo of what we typically deliver.
  • Shared examples of later living driving better social, health, and wellbeing outcomes in perpetuity through place shaping to deliver mixed use intergenerational co-living environments.
  • Presented innovative partnership delivery models which drive quality, pace and diversity, that secures private sector investment and public sector efficiencies.

Chaired by Paula Broadbent at Lovell Later Living, we were joined by:

  • Professor Les Mayhew, ILC (UK) and Bayes Business School, on his report for the International Longevity Centre on the older people's housing market, 'Future-proofing retirement living: Easing the care and housing crises'. 
  • Mary Parsons, Regeneration and Partnerships Director at Lovell Partnerships and formerly Executive Director at Places for People
  • Greg Wilkinson at Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities who outlined the aims and objectives of the Task Force
  • Patrick Devlin, a partner at Pollard Thomas Edwards architects, a HAPPI award-winning practice 

We are thankful to this session's sponsor, Lovell Later Living.

Event feedback:

  • Informed, inspiring and intellectually challenging!
  • Really got to the heart of the issues facing us as a community.
  • Very good, excellent speakers, could have gone on with the discussion for another hour as so many issues raised!