Workstream E - Wider Planning for an Ageing Population - Housing and Communities
Remit
- To engage with key interests (commissioners, providers, service users and their families and carers) to establish the significant needs and wants of older people and to assess gaps between current circumstances and desired circumstances.
- To establish the 'blocks' currently inhibiting progress.
- To identify practical measures to be taken to ensure new developments create homes and living environments that meet the needs of older people and consider opportunities to adapt and develop current housing and living environments.
- To assess the range, quantity and tenures of specialist housing provision required to meet future needs at national and local levels.
- To consider issues relating to access and transitions for older people to ease the ability to move to more suitable accommodation and thereby help to optimise the use of existing housing stock.
- To consider and evaluate the range of housing and associated support services that are currently available across all tenures and recommend the configuration of services that will best meet future needs within the resources likely to be available.
- To consider the scope for developing new support services, such as telehealthcare and housing/garden maintenance that will enable people to remain at home (linking across the care at home workstream as necessary).
- To consider funding issues in respect of the total public sector resources likely to be available and the balance of funding between public and private sector, including the level of funding from individuals to support their own housing and housing support costs.
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Report to the Ministerial Strategy Group for Health and Wellbeing - Wider Planning for An Ageing Population
You can access the final report which presents the emerging proposals for this workstream submitted to the Ministerial Strategy Group
