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Better housing for older people benefits all according to the Housing and Ageing Alliance

Better housing for older people benefits all, according to The Housing and Ageing Alliance’s submission to the 2025 Spending Review, which emphasises how investment in better housing for older people can help achieve the government's missions; raising living standards and productivity, building 1.5m homes and ending hospital backlogs. 

Government publishes its Telecare National Action Plan

The joint Telecare National Action Plan from the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is now out.

The plan also signposts a number of useful tools, resources, and examples of good practice. Funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, we were pleased to see the TAPPI Project referenced.

Resource Roundup

Opinion: Housing’s role in tackling intersectional inequalities

Prof Vikki McCall and Prof Kim McKee of Stirling University explore how the housing sector can play a crucial role in addressing the intersectional stigma of place-based ageing, highlighting how housing, disability, and ageing intersect to shape experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and discrimination, with reference to the ISPA project. 

Finding a safe home after hospital: Case study research on supported housing and health partnerships

A new National Housing Federation (NHF) report explores how the NHS and supported housing providers are working together to remove barriers to finding a safe home and support people leaving hospital at the right time for their recovery.

Expert Insights

Prioritising both quality and quantity of housing for older generations

First published in Inside Housing, this Housing LIN guest blog by Martyn Craddock, Chief Executive at United St Saviour's Charity, explores the urgent need for housing solutions tailored to England’s ageing population, projected to reach 29% by 2035.

Read on to find out why the government’s housing strategy must prioritise older adults to create a more inclusive, sustainable housing system for all generations.

What else caught our interest...

• FUTURESCOT: Housing association becomes ‘first’ to join national digital platform to provide better care to elderly residents
• Housing Digital: The truth about industry capacity issues and your move to digital telecare
• Housing Today: Work on first new towns 'to start within four years’ says Pennycook as 100 proposals received
• Inclusive Design: A Forever Home?
• MHCLG funding announcement: Thousands to benefit from the security of a safe home
• Pension Age: Greater Manchester aiming to be a 'pioneer' in improving lives of older people
• Tunstall Healthcare: Advancing Technology Enabled Care Who Cares and Who Pays? A Short Report

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