Productive Healthy Ageing Profile

Housing

The following selected 'Data sources', 'Publications' and 'Websites' can inform improving the quality and accessibility of housing:

Data sources

• Productive Healthy Ageing Profile - includes local, regional and/or national level indicators relating to fuel poverty and housing quality, with national breakdowns by household composition (including age 60+) and other inequalities published by Public Health England. 
• Spend and Outcomes Tool (SPOT) includes local authority level comparisons of housing spend and outcomes published by Public Health England
• The English Housing Survey - a range of data reports including annual trends published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Projecting Older People Population Information (POPPI) System - includes older age group estimates and projections by 'living status' at national, regional and local authority level. Published by Oxford Brookes University and the Institute of Public Care.
• Health risks of cold homes: data sources - guidance published by Public Health England
• See also publications below such as the 'Living longer' and APPG reports 

Publications

• Home and dry: the need for decent homes in later life (2020) published by the Centre for Ageing Better and Care & Repair England
• Living longer: implications of housing tenure in later life (2020) published by the Office for National Statistics
• Living longer: changes in housing tenure over time (2020) published by the Office for National Statistics
• English Housing Survey 2018: accessibility of English homes - factsheet (2020) published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Cold weather plan for England (2019) – guidance published by Public Health England
• Inquiry into decent and accessible homes for older people (2019) published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Ageing and Older People
• Rental Housing for an Ageing Population (HAPPI 5) report (2019) published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Housing and Care for Older People
• Adaptations without delay (2019) published by the Royal College of Occupational Therapists
• Healthy Homes: Accommodating an Ageing Population (2018) published by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
• Warm homes, affordable fuel and healthy people (2018) published by the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
• Housing an Ageing Population - presentation (2018) published on the Local Government Association website
• Housing our ageing population (2017) report by the Local Government Association
• Active Ageing and the Built Environment (2016) published by Housing LIN with support from Public Health England
• Guidance - Excess winter deaths and illnesses and the health risks associated with cold homes (2015) published by the Institue of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Websites

• Homes for health - collection of resources published by Public Health England
• Safe and accessible homes - Programmes & Latest research published by the Centre for Ageing Better
• The Housing and Ageing Alliance - "a broad spectrum of people from local and national organisations working together with a single objective; to bring about improvements to the housing and living conditions of older people"
• Cold Homes Toolkit published by the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
• Housing options for older people published on the NHS website (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser)
• Elderly Accommodation Counsel information for both the public and professionals on retirement housing and care homes
• UK Network for Shared Lives and Homeshare - promoting and supporting 'Shared Lives carers' and 'Homeshare UK'
• UK Cohousing - including older women's cohousing community case study
• Healthy New Towns published by NHS England (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser)
• The Chartered Institute of Housing
• The Housing Learning & Improvement Network (LIN)
• Care and Repair England
• Foundations - oversees a national network of home improvement agencies
• Home Improvement Agencies - an online directory of home improvement agencies
• Heating and Housing Benefits published on the Government UK website
• Disabled Facilities Grant - available from local authorities to pay for essential housing adaptations to help disabled people stay in their own homes
• Housing and health guidelines published by the World Health Organisation
• Association of Retirement Housing Managers
• Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO)
• Housing, Planning and Homelessness published by the Local Government Association