Thinking Ahead: housing and related care options in later life
– Help with making appropriate housing choices together – What help is available if you decide it is best for the person you care for to stay at home including: – What can help to support people to live independently – How to make the home safe and hea
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Retirement Living – Where is the Opportunity?
• By 2025, 20% of the UK population will be over 65 (14.3 million people) • The over 65s own a combined £800 billion of housing equity • JLL estimate that there is a potential requirement for an additional 725,000 Housing with Care units by 2025 which wo
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Housing options for older people in Cambridgeshire
An introduction to services that can help older people live more comfortably or independently at home, and the options available to those who decide to move in later life. It is written for older people who rent their current homes as well as those who ar
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Specialist housing for older people (Factsheet 64)
This factsheet gives information about housing intended specifically for older people, usually aimed at those over 55 or 60. Specialist housing for older people comes in many different forms and we cannot cover all of these here. However, a common model i
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Housing Options: a guide for older people in Scotland
The main housing options available across Scotland are: • Staying in your current home and adapting it to your needs. • Buying or renting a smaller/more suitable property. • Sheltered accommodation (retirement housing). • A care home. • Moving
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Housing Options for Older People Service (HOOP): An Evaluation of FirstStop Manchester
As the UK continues to see an ageing population where appropriate housing solutions are scarce and high quality advice and information about these is limited, Manchester Move and Northwards Housing are pleased to present this report about the work that ha
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EAC FirstStop Local Partners Programme 2013-16
A review of a two and a half year programme during with EAC FirstStop was able to channel DCLG grant funding to local information and advice agencies to develop or enhance free, independent and integrated housing and care advice services, to evidence thei
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