Housing, Care and Support: Volume 3 Issue 3

Editorial: Choice of a Place to Live

Maurice Harker

The Housing Green Paper: The messages for housing with care and support

Gwyneth Taylor

This article summarises the key proposals in the Housing Green Paper and considers how the vision for housing outlined by the Government needs to complement and support other…

Thirty years on — A new White Paper on better learning disability services?

Brian McGinnis

The paper outlines the themes that are likely to be important in the new national learning disability strategy. It reflects on assumptions about the best forms of housing…

From client to community: Linking community care into the regeneration agenda

Peter Fletcher

A national study has highlighted the need for regeneration planning to take on board the housing, care and support needs of vulnerable, isolated people with community care needs…

Caring communities and community development: How can care and community mix?

Paul Henderson

The article addresses issues raised in this Journal (Vol. 3, Issue 1) on the relationship between supporting people and neighbourhood renewal. Using findings from an…

‘Joined‐up’ thinking? A co‐housing community pilot project

Maria Brenton

The Government's welfare and housing agenda focuses on ‘joined‐up’ thinking, choice, balanced communities and social inclusion. Because there is also much concern about the impact…

Housing and health — a joint approach: The Manchester experience

Hilary Bartle

The Manchester Healthy City project has carried out a major consultation with communities over the action plan for the Healthy City initiative. The four clear themes were housing…

Technology for independence: Telecare — technology for older people

Simon Brownsell, Jeremy Porteus

This article is based on the report Using Telecare: Exploring Technologies for Independent Living for Older People, which contains the findings of a lifestyle monitoring system…

Directing research: Research on housing in the lives of older people

Sarah Vallely

The Research Directory: Older People & Housing provides the first comprehensive overview of current and recent research into older people's housing across the whole of the UK. The…