Healthy Hostels

Healthy lifestyles for hostel residents: a guide to improve the health and well-being of homeless and vulnerable people

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Remodelling Sheltered Housing and Residential Care Homes to Extra Care Housing – Advice to housing and care providers

This advice is based on the findings of the project Remodelling Sheltered Housing and Residential Care Homes to Extra Care Housing, carried out by a multi-disciplinary team of two social gerontologists, two architects, a rehabilitation engineer, an occupa

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Switched on to Telecare: Providing health and care support through home-based telecare monitoring in the UK and the US

Report on a conference session at the 10th World Mulit-Conferene on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA

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Older People’s Services and Individual Budgets

Examples of good practice currently being undertaken by the pilot sites implementing Individual Budgets for older people’s services.

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Whose Market? Understanding the demand for extra care housing: a strategic approach

This report highlights the finding of a Housing LIN survey, and draws out some of the implications for commissioners, developers, funders and providers of extra care housing.

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Linking the Evidence-base to Outcomes: a consultation study for Essex County Council’s Older Persons Housing Strategy

This study provides an example of how key data on the household characteristics of older people can inform and underpin local planning strategies and documents such as Housing Strategies for Older People, Housing Market Assessments, Suppporting People Str

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Essex County Council Older Persons Housing Strategy

Case Study 28 is an executive summary of a full report titled “Linking the Evidence-base to Outcomes”.

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Dee Park Active Retirement Club – Age Concern Berkshire

Case Study 27 addresses issues of social interaction and isolation, and the promotion of an active and healthier lifestyle

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