Mental Health and Housing
The resources listed on these pages offer practical information about how suitable housing options and related services, and timely support interventions can respond to the needs of people with specific mental health conditions and improve their health and wellbeing.
Key Mental Health Subjects
Homes and Environments
How housing related services and support, as well as the way we design our homes and communities, can respond to the needs of people with specific mental problems, both working age and older people, including information about housing options.
Older people
Relevant policy and practice developments where there is reference to housing for older people with 'functional' mental health problems such as depression and schizophrenia.
Key resources
A framework for achieving excellence in mental health discharge
The LGA/ADASS collaborative, Partners in Health and Care, has issued this online resource on mental health discharge, drawing on extensive engagement with front line teams, statutory guidance and operational models that are working well across the country. From inpatient treatment to community support, the lack of suitable accommodation is recognised as critical to discharge planning.
Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services - Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches
This set of publications by the World Health Organisation (WHO) provides information and support to all stakeholders who wish to develop or transform their mental health system and services to align with international human rights standards including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Mental Health Dashboard
The Department of Health have published a 'dashboard' which rings together mental health outcomes data to show progress made against the objectives set out in their 2011 strategy, 'No health, without mental health'.
Living Well in Old Age: The value of UK housing interventions in supporting mental health and wellbeing in later life
Older people are at an increased risk of developing mental health problems as a result of bereavement, a drop in status in retirement, or a disability that affects how they get about and what they can do.
Housing and mental health: providing support for people in need
This report by the Mental Health Foundation identifies which types of supported accommodation successfully meet the needs of people with mental health problems and draws on the expertise of people living and working in these settings across England to capture the issues on the ground.
More than shelter: Supported accommodation and mental health
Published by the Centre for Mental Health, this report reviews evidence about supported housing services for people with mental health problems in England.
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Latest Resources
- You are not alone in feeling lonely: Loneliness in later life
- Older People’s Housing Preferences
- Lonely Nation: How to tackle loneliness through the built environment
- Housing LIN Animation: Future-Ready Sheltered Housing for Tomorrow's World
- The forgotten story of social care: The case for improving outcomes for working age and lifelong disabled adults
- Housing LIN Case Study (No. 174) - More's Meadow Almshouses: A community-led development in Cambridgeshire
- Safe Homes Now Spotlight: Older people in poor-quality housing
- Impact Report: The Age Friendly Social Housing Programme
- Promoting the Safety and Independence of Older Residents in Social Housing
- Quality of Life Framework 2.0