New Housing and Ageing Alliance blog by David Sinclair on how the fifteen-minute neighbourhood can transform what we want from housing in old age.

In this blog David Sinclair, Director of ILCUK and member of the Housing & Ageing Alliance, reflects on the fifteen-minute neighbourhood concept as an idea that offers an opportunity to review the relationship between our home and our community as we age, while thinking about how the needs of a diverse older population is met within this framework.

David highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed how our local communities aren't meeting our needs and says that unless we find ways of planning which recognise the diversity of ageing experience, we risk the fifteen-minute neighbourhood exacerbating rather than tackling inequalities.