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This Clarion Housing Group publication uses demographic shifts in its residents over time to project who they might be in the near future, as well as the growing challenges they are likely to face.

This High Impact Change Model (HICM), published by the LGA, is focused on the care of people with a suspected/ undiagnosed or diagnosed dementia, and those where delirium is superimposed on dementia, i.e. when a person with pre-existing dementia develops delirium.

This episode of the Supported Living Property Podcast features Professor Vikki McCall talking about housing stigma and the importance of planning for an ageing population as well as the development of the Serious Game - the innovative game bringing together a range of parties to play out different approaches to housing strategy.

In a major boost for communities across the country, the government has today confirmed changes to planning rules, including turbocharging charging growth with new, mandatory targets for councils to ramp up housebuilding across the country. The planning overhaul seeks to tackle the chronic housing shortage with a rise from 300,000 to 370,000 homes a year from five years to six years but is silent on housing for an ageing population.

The National Planning Policy Framework was revised in response to the Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the Planning system consultation on 12 December 2024 and sets out the government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied.

This House of Lords briefing relates to the government's proposals to increase housing supply and improve the quality of homes, including prioritising building housing on brownfield sites and reforming the national planning policy framework.

Professor Whitty’s report outlines a broad range of health opportunities and challenges for city populations and includes case studies from core cities in England. Amongst the health challenges addressed are the health effects of housing and the built environment, and that the barriers to maintaining health of those ageing in cities can be high.

This report from Age UK presents new evidence about the scale of the loneliness challenge among people aged 65 and over, exploring why loneliness is harmful to older people’s health, wellbeing and quality of life and practical steps to mitigate against it.

This article, published in Social Policy and Society, presents research that explored loneliness in an underprivileged community, whose perspective supports a growing body of evidence that loneliness amongst older people is driven by wider structural and socio-cultural exclusion.