The following selected 'Data tools & sources', 'Publications','Websites' and 'Webinars' can inform improving the quality, accessibility and security of housing for older people:
Data tools & sources
Productive Healthy Ageing Profile - includes local level indicators relating to homelessness in older people and fuel poverty, and national level housing quality indicators with 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 household composition and annual trends published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Homelessness Statistics including older age specific content 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.
The 'Good Home Inquiry' (July2020-mid-2021) - "commissioned by the Centre for Ageing Better ...led by an independent panel and chaired by David Orr CBE"
Housing Made for Everyone (HoME) coalition - "a coalition of ten charities and housing organisations...calling for urgent action to tackle the UK’s acute and growing shortage of accessible and adaptable homes"
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)