This website, HousingCare.org The site is run by the charity EAC (Elderly Accommodation Counsel), and contains a huge amount of information and guidance about housing options and care services for older people. So if you are new to the site, please take time to explore it fully. Our Housing Options for Older People (HOOP) ‘app’ […]

“A national strategy for older people’s housing is needed to bring together and improve policy in this area” is the overarching conclusion of a cross-party House of Commons Select Committee report published today. Detailed recommendations include: The existing FirstStop Advice Service should be re-funded by the Government to provide an expanded national telephone advice service, […]

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 […]

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 […]

The delivery of independent information and advice for older people which brings together housing and care options and related financial advice is the focus of Making the Case, a new report published this week by the leading organisations concerned with the provision of such services. The report sets out how integrated housing and care information […]