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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

‘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 […]

Reading materials for seniors and professionals A wide range of reading materials and information on retirement housing and care homes, ranging from easy to read guides, to fact-sheets, to videos and blogs posts. These materials are aimed at both first time visitors and professional users. FirstStop Advice pages Description for this box….: Care advice Housing […]