Housing, Care and Support: Volume 4 Issue 2

Clearly, the picture is confused

Maurice Harker

Housing and the National Health Service Plan: Reconfiguring the deckchairs?

Terry Bamford

Since 1948 the Health Service has been a subject of policy on which Labour has consistently rated higher than the Tories in public opinion. But the standard of care within the…

What older people say: Will NHS reforms and the National Service Framework address the concerns of older people?

Jonathan Ellis

This article explores older people's priorities for health and social care, noting a close relationship between those systems and the role to be played by housing services as the…

Intermediate care and the housing connection

Peter Fletcher

Until recently there was a lot of confusion about the meaning of the term ‘intermediate care’ and the role, if any, that the supported housing sector can play in the development…

Crossing the housing and care divide: Integrating housing and social care for older people

Ailsa Cameron, Alex Marsh, Paul Burton

The fundamental role of housing in community care has long been acknowledged. However, progress in achieving any real integration of housing and social care has been slow. This…

Living independently: Linking housing and care services for older people

Sue Adams

The vast majority of older people (90%) live in the general housing stock and 70% are owneroccupiers. One of the major challenges for planners in the housing, health and social…

Extending the scope of community alarm services

Kevin Doughty, Malcolm Fisk

The rapid evolution of the social alarm network in the UK during the 1980s is one of the greatest success stories of the local authority housing departments which championed their…

Pathways to accessible housing: Assessing the need for wheelchairaccessible housing

Alan Carter

The Papworth Trust and Habinteg Housing Association have just launched the findings of a two‐year research programme into the need for better housing and support for disabled…

Training the social care and housing workforce: Setting the context

Jenny Spaull

‘Education, education, education’. If the first is for schools and the second for higher education, then the third should focus on the training and education of the workforce and…