Published on Wednesday 23rd of April 2025

Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) is a registered charity with a mission “to help older people reach informed decisions about meeting their housing and care needs”. From 1985 it led the way in developing a specialist information and advice service model and delivering this in partnership with allied national and local charities. After over 30 years […]

Published on Wednesday 16th of April 2025

The case for ramping up the supply of specialist housing for older people has never been stronger. Whilst our population continues to age fast, building of new sheltered, retirement and extra care housing fell in 2024 to its lowest level for decades – just 6,000 properties UK-wide. Meanwhile 2,000 older properties in 22 locations were […]

Published on Friday 10th of June 2022

Shared ownership is a tenure more familiar to younger people, as a way of getting a foot on the home-ownership ladder by buying a share in a property and paying rent on the share they don’t own. But in fact shared ownership retirement properties have been around for 40 years – never a mainstream tenure, […]

Published on Wednesday 2nd of February 2022

Our new service, EAC Advice, is just 6 months old and recorded its 1,500th enquiry this week. Please feel welcome to use the service yourself, or to alert family members, neighbours or clients to it. EAC Advice 0800 377 7070 Email: enquiries@eac.org.uk Calls may be recorded and monitored EAC Advice is a ‘housing options’ advice […]

Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2021

‘EAC Advice’ is our new, free ‘housing options’ telephone advice service that offers information, discussion and guidance to help you think about and plan for: Living safely and well at homeFor example by repairing or adapting it, making it safe or more energy efficient, getting in help to manage it or to get out and […]

Published on Sunday 23rd of May 2021

EAC is now recruiting in earnest for up to 3 Housing Options Advisors to deliver a new national advice service for older people and their families. The service will cover the spectrum of housing options open to older people, with equal emphasis on ‘staying put’ and moving home. It will offer a combination of help […]

Published on Monday 16th of November 2020

HousingCare.org is visited by around 17,000 people every day – over 4 million each year! Most of these are thinking about moving home, and searching our retirement housing directory to see what’s available in their area. Some look for new developments; many are interested in what is currently available. Advertising on HousingCare now rivals better known […]

Published on Monday 16th of November 2020

Covid-19 has brought to the forefront what the sector has known for years; housing and care for older people has long been under-invested. It requires a new way of joined up thinking to meet the needs and aspirations of older people, and their relatives, and realise the potential for growth in new age friendly homes. […]