This guide is based on the experience of EAC FirstStop working with local FirstStop partners. It offers commissioners model clauses which can be used in specifications describing services providing housing and related care and finance advice for people in later life. The Care Act 2014, and Guidance, places new duties on local authorities to ensure […]

EAC are excited to be working with the Law Commission in hosting an event on the 14th of January that will bring together the leaders in retirement leasehold housing. This event comes as the Commission’s consultation into ‘Event Fees’ in residential leases draws to a close at the end of the month. EAC has played […]

Nominations for this year’s Awards were made by 4,069 residents living in 360 later life housing developments across the UK. All were consulted using EAC’s entertaing card game, designed to stimulate discussion and capture satisfaction ratings on scheme design, services and well-being, with the highest ranked schemes going forward as finalists for the Awards. View […]

The Care Act 2014 and the associated Guidance places a duty on local authorities to ensure that integrated information and advice services spanning social care, housing and related finance are available to all. In addition there is growing pressure on the NHS and Social Care to move towards prevention and away from crisis interventions, delivering […]

Legal & General has offered to fund exploratory work to extend the scope of EAC’s National Housing for Older People Awards and the consultation with residents that underpins them. The aim is to capture the views also of residents’ families and scheme staff in order to gain a broader understanding of what makes for successful […]

EAC’s new blog is aimed at people working in FirstStop’s field of information & advice for older people and their families around housing, care and related finance – as well as relevant policy makers, commissioners, academics and potential funders/investors. For the last two decades or more there has been a broader move to position welfare […]

To coincide with the launch of its new website (http://www.thorngate.org.uk), Thorngate Almshouse Trust has become for first almshouse charity to subscribe to EAC’s HousingCare Premium Service. Thorngate owns and manages three sheltered housing schemes and one care home in Gosport, Hampshire. Founded in 1868 by two Gosport families; the Thorngates and the Churchers, the Trust […]

The climax of this year’s EAC Over 60s Art Awards was a celebratory afternoon tea event at the House of Lords on 8th October, hosted by EAC’s President the Countess of Mar. 38 Award winners and highly commended artists were able to join the celebration, many with a partner or companion, and receive their Awards […]