Housing, Care and Support: Volume 16 Issue 3/4

Managing the challenge to social housing of an ageing English population

Colin Jones

The purpose of this paper is to review the management of the (accessible) social housing stock as a means to achieve a cost effective solution to meeting the needs of an ageing…

Handyperson schemes and the Equality Act 2010

Jo Moriarty, Jill Manthorpe

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether handyperson services are able to meet the needs of diverse groups of older people, specifically in the UK policy context, to meet…

Competitive advantage in the new contrived social care marketplace: do we need a new theoretical framework?

Patricia Dearnaley

The purpose of this paper is to examine how far existing theories around contingency for competitive advantage are compatible with the “contrived market” in social care. The paper…

Housing support and personalisation: observations from the Scottish Self-Directed Support Test Sites

Ann Laura Rosengard, Julie Ridley, Jill Manthorpe

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of housing and housing support services in working with systems of self-directed support (SDS). The paper draws upon findings…

“The experiences of professionals working with homeless people in a clinical setting”: a qualitative study

Serdar Arslan

The purpose of this paper is to describe a qualitative study using an idiographic approach to explore professionals’ experience of working with homeless people. The paper took…

From Canada to Kircubbin: learning from America on housing an ageing population – part 2

Eileen Thompson

The purpose of this paper is to learn lessons from North America on housing an ageing population, both in terms of supporting people to “age in place”, and available options for…

The impact of “car culture” on our urban landscape: how shoppers have literally been driven off the British high street

Jayne Phenton

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the impact of the arrival of the motor car on streets, communities, life styles and health. It documents the environmental…

Editorial

Robin Johnson