Provision of Extra Care

These pages contain items that relate to specific operational aspects of extra care. The information is split into five topics:

Statistics - information about volume of extra care provision in different parts of the country to enable benchmarking.
Support Services - information about the range of support services that are available to people using extra care housing, including information on exit/event fees.
Outreach Services - case studies and policy issues relating to services based in Extra Care housing that also support people in the wider community.
Asset Management - information relating to the asset management and maintenance of extra care housing schemes, including issues relating to fire safety and protection and catering arrangements.
Legislation & Regulation - information on the legal, regulatory frameworks & codes for operating extra care housing, including the Law Commission's findings.

Taking a collaborative approach to design at The Courtyards in Preston

Written for the Housing LIN by David Magill, Associate at Levitt Bernstein, this case study explores 'The Courtyards', an extra care housing scheme in Ingol, Preston, which was recently shortlisted in the HAPPI category of the Housing Design Awards.

Older Person’s Housing Group

This publication seeks to identify the barriers and challenges associated with projections that reveal we need 38,000 new homes for rent for older people each year, far in excess of the annual average output of 8,000 seen over the last decade.

Keeping extra care and retirement housing residents and staff safe, engaged and happy during the COVID-19 pandemic

This Housing LIN guest blog written by Aileen Evans reflects on how extra care and retirement housing residents and staff were kept safe, engaged and happy during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Retirement Village and Extra Care Housing in England: Operators’ Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic - RE-COV Study

Ground-breaking research into the impact of COVID-19 last year on retirement villages and extra care housing, undertaken by St Monica Trust in partnership with the Housing LIN and funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, highlights how housing-with-care sector’s response to coronavirus pandemic benefitted residents.

Alternatives to Long Term Institutional Care for Older People

This report by Winston Churchill Memorial Trust explores a range of alternative ‘housing with care’ models for older people in Japan and New Zealand.

Event fees and housing with care: What now?

This guide by ARCO sets out the law and regulation of event fees in housing with care settings. It provides information on the current legal status of event fees, the Law Commission's proposed Code of Practice, and what the next steps are likely to be for the use of event fees in the housing with care sector.

Talking about “the dark stuff”: opening up about bereavement in extra care housing

In our latest Housing LIN blog Caity Roleston explores how bereavement support can be provided in extra care housing.

ULI Later Living: Housing with care guide

With a contribution by the Housing LIN, this new guide published by The Urban Land Institute sets out examples of innovative practice within the emerging later living sector for funders, developers, architects, and operators.

Launching the Housing with Care Opportunity

To coincide with the launch of the 'ULI Later Living: Housing with Care' guide, Russell Pedley, Director and co-founder of Assael Architecture, has written a guest blog for the Housing LIN. It offers great insight in the Later Living housing market.

A5/2019 Sheltered and extra care supported accommodation – New LA IT functionality requirement

This DWP guidance discusses the new LA IT functionality requirement for sheltered and extra care supported accommodation.

What makes extra care housing an appropriate setting for people with dementia? An exploration of staff decision-making

This paper calls for more evidence on whether extra care housing can be an alternative to care homes and how services should be arranged to meet the needs of people living in extra care housing.

Housing, Health & Social Care: Service Integration and Community Development in the Provision of Appropriate Residential Accommodation through Extra Care Housing

This Planning Exchange Foundation report argues that Extra Care Housing is the appropriate solution in tackling the UK's social care crisis whilst better supporting older people with accommodation more suited to their needs.

A better offer for older people - Making extra care housing work for your community

This think-piece by Mears offers a selection of dialogues with partners and offers insights into the social value, cost effectiveness and current market conditions for extra care housing.

Messages on the future of domiciliary care services

This paper shares expert experience and suggestions on the what and the how, i.e. price, supply, demand, service design and innovation, requires specific consideration to effectively deliver outcomes through domiciliary care services in the future.

Stronger Foundations - International Lessons for the Housing with Care Sector in the UK

A report from ILC-UK discussing the issue terminology around later life housing and housing-with-care in the UK and other international contexts.

A mixed age, intergenerational living model of extra care housing in Leicester

This Housing LIN Case Study (No. 164) features an extra care housing scheme whereby the tenants are a mix of working-age adults with a care and support needs as well as older adults.