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The range of responses to meet the housing needs of older people is growing. The resources listed below include examples of types of provision, an approach to benchmarking and research and evaluation of models of provision.

Planning ahead: influencing local planning on housing and ageing

A guide for local older people’s forums and groups

Future of an Ageing Population

This Foresight and Government Office for Science report brings together the evidence that will help policymakers to develop the policies needed to adapt to the demographic change of the UK. It gathers...

Hatching a plan for older people's housing

Housing LIN Viewpoint no 78 - At a time when planning should be raising its game to meet the needs of an ageing society, the Government is progressing changes to legislation and funding for housing which...

Tomorrow's World: The future of ageing in the UK. Planning tomorrow today

This report by ILC-UK describes the future challenges and opportunities posed by an ageing population It argues that our society is not adequately responding to ageing today. For example: The social...

Building for the Generations: Lessons from the United States of America

In this Housing LIN Viewpoint no 70, the author and editor of magazine of the Urban and Land Institute, reaffirms that the "silver tsunami" of ageing baby boomers is upon us and, rather than running...

Housing in Later Life

This report from Age UK puts forward a raft of recommendations to the Government, local authorities and the building industry on housing in later life. They include: All new mainstream and specialised...

Senior momentum: What have the planners ever done for us?

This Housing LIN viewpoint no 59 has been written to identify some of the ways in which themes being discussed and implemented through the planning system could hinder or help in the supply of suitable...

How can local planning authorities engage better with the housing needs of an ageing society?

Housing LIN viewpoint no 58 sets out how local authority planners can work within the reformed planning system to improve the amount and types of housing for older people. The potential gains of meeting...

The Long Term Care Revolution

This Housing LIN Report comprehensively outlines the case for a revolution in long term care and captures some of the supporting material that has aided the development of the TSB's Assisted Living Innovation...

A new era of accommodation for the Third Age: Constructing excellence

This Housing LIN Viewpoint no 48 sets out how the construction industry is embracing emerging trends in building for older people, with a focus on flexibility and affordability.

Older people: The new kids on the block

This Housing LIN Viewpoint no 47 gives a personal account of what is stopping the development of good quality, affordable housing and offers some insightful steps on how these could be best overcome....

Community-Led Housing for Older People and the Community Right to Build

This Housing LIN viewpoint No 40 examines community-led approaches to the provision of new housing and services for older people. It considers the potential of the Government's Localism Act 2011 and...

Towards an Age-friendly Wythenshawe - a partnership approach to developing the Wythenshawe Age-friendly Charter

This Housing LIN case study No 63 is based on a presentation given at the Age-friendly Manchester conference in October last year which saw Manchester gain national and international recognition as a...

Helping older people move home - a focus on McCarthy&Stone's "Moving Experience"

This Housing LIN Case Study no 60 looks at the personal service that the private retirement housebuilder McCarthy & Stone provide to help with every stage of the house buying process and moving home....

Who can afford retirement housing?

This study from the JRF and Age UK looked at the incomes, benefits and retirement housing living costs of the UK's 10 million people of pension age and concludes that not all low-income pensioners are...

Care in Crisis 2012 Report

With recent figures from DH showing that overall expenditure on adult social care fell by 1% in real terms last year to £17b, this briefing by Age UK suggests that the funding gap will only widen unless...

A better fit? Creating housing choices for an ageing population

This new report from Shelter takes a detailed look at the current state of the housing for older people's market and considers whether there is a wide choice of housing for an ageing population and any...

Housing Markets and Independence in Old Age

This new report from McCarthy & Stone highlights the benefits of specialised private retirement accommodation and recommends a number of simple policy changes at no cost to the public purse to help...

Housing an Ageing Population - The Extra Care Solution

This report by Tim Brown, Principal Lecturer, De Montfort University commissioned by Keepmoat and the Housing LIN, outlines the challenges and opportunities for Extra Care housing against the backdrop...

Funding Adult Social Care over the next decade: Who cares?

This report from BUPA suggests that considerable strain could be put on the availability of residential care as councils cut back on spending on care home costs at a time of increased demand from an ageing...

Planning and Delivering Continuing Care Retirement Communities

This report published by Tetlow King investigates housing and care provision for the older generations and focuses on the planning issues in delivering Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs)....

Knitting together: planning and our ageing population

This 2009 case study report from the Planning Advisory Service looks at the experiences of several local authorities. It examines the wider implications that planning for an ageing population has on...

Viewpoint on Downsizing for older people into Specialist Accommodation

This Housing LIN Viewpoint no 19 makes the case for encouraging more providers to create attractive specialist schemes, and for encouraging more people to move into them, to "stay younger longer". It...

Rural Housing, Older People and The Big Society

This Housing LIN Report originated in a piece of work originally explored with the Commission for Rural Communities in late 2009 and commissioned by it in early 2010. Since then a General Election has...

Downsizing in general needs housing

Housing LIN Viewpoint No 17 on enabling older people and those with long term conditions to downsize to more appropriate general accommodation - considering the barriers to moving, the challenges to...

Planning for Continuing Care retirement communities - issues and good practice

Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) are a relatively new concept in the UK and there is a general lack of understanding of their characteristics and role. This analysis of current and emerging...

Senior living - understanding retirement housing

This supplement, distributed in the Guardian, was published to help members of the public gain a better understanding of retirement housing and of the various models of housing with care. It covers a...

Housing with care for later life - a literature review

This report presents a comprehensive overview of the most recent evidence related to new and emerging models of housing with care for later life. It examines and contrasts existing knowledge about different...

A report on the evaluation of Moor Allerton Care Centre

The Moor Allerton Care Centre was established by MHA Care Group in December 2004and provides purpose built housing with care and day care for older people including those with dementia. The evaluation...

Towards an ageing society - evaluation of HACT Older Peoples programme

This document is a summary of the final evaluation report of Hact's Older People's Programme that funded 19 projects, 17 of which achieved their targets. It includes insights about specific policy areas,...

Extra care housing is a model being increasingly used to meet older people's housing needs. You can find information about commissioning and planning extra care housing on the Extra Care pages.