Housing

Housing is broadly defined to embrace a wide range of housing-related staff and services as well as design and the built environment.

Pocket guide to NDS for care homes

Pocket guide to NDS for care homes

Pocket guides to National Dementia Strategy for care homes
Summary: This pocket guide produced by the Royal College of Nursing explains how the National Dementia Strategy (NDS) affects providers and managers of care home services. Living well with dementia in a care home – a guide to implementing the National Dementia Strategy is a 16-page colour booklet that was distributed alongside four separate publications: Nursing Older People, Mental Health Practice, the Journal of Dementia Care and Caring Times.

The guide provides an overview of dementia and the NDS, and highlights the specific objectives that relate to care homes, including:

  • Objective 1 – awareness and understanding
  • Objective 2 – diagnosis and intervention
  • Objective 11- quality of care

The guide also incorporates examples of good practice in care homes and patients with dementia.

The Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (HAPPI) report
Summary: HAPPI has gathered good practice from across Europe and put together new and creative proposals to help ensure that future housing will create sustainable and inclusive homes and neighbourhoods which our ageing population want and can afford to live in.

The Housing LIN briefing on the National Dementia Strategy, Living Well with Dementia
Summary: The briefing analyses the strategy from a housing perspective. It summarises key elements of the strategy, detailing those of relevance to the housing sector, and explaining the contribution that the sector can make. A number of examples are used to illustrate these points. More information on most of these examples can be found in the revised housing and dementia pages on the Housing LIN website and special issue of Journal of Care Services Management on housing and dementia.
Download: The briefing (PDF)

 

A special edition of the Journal of Care Services Management on housing and dementia
Summary: The issue covers the following topics:

  • The potential of practical support services, such as those delivered by home improvement agencies, to prolong independent living in mainstream housing, and the cross-sector mechanisms needed to develop them
  • Floating support services specifically for people with dementia
  • The findings from an evaluation of a whole systems approach, which includes housing with care and universal entitlement to assistive technology, to maximise independence and ageing in place
  • Charitable funding and partnership working to provide a memory café using a sheltered housing lounge
  • Partnership working between a local Alzheimer’s Society branch and housing association to improve the well-being of people with dementia and carers through raising awareness and understanding amongst residents and staff
  • Designing extra care housing to support activity and meaningful engagement for people with dementia
  • Charitable funding and partnership working to enable a housing association to pilot the employment of a specialist end-of-life care nurse for people with dementia wishing to die in their own homes
  • A report on research into the problems faced by people who have both sight loss and dementia, and suggested solutions
  • A case study of a specialist extra care scheme for people with dementia
  • A report on research into the level of cognitive impairment of entrants to extra care schemes compared to care home entrants
  • A report on research into the mental health needs of 268 vulnerable people living in 10 extra care schemes
  • An opinion-piece on the SPECAL approach to dementia care

A copy of the Journal can be purchased from Henry Stewart Publications by going to: http://www.henrystewart.com/care_services_management/special.html or phoning Veronica Andrews on 020 7404 3040 or e-mailing her on [email protected]. It is available for £11.50 on-line or £39.50 for a printed copy plus free on-line access.

 

The revamped housing and dementia pages on the Housing LIN website
Summary: The Housing LIN web-pages on Housing and Dementia bring together information on all aspects of meeting the needs of people with dementia and their carers in housing settings – particularly, but not exclusively, extra care housing. They contain many Housing LIN and other CSIP resources, as well as presentations from conferences and links to other sites, so that it serves as a gateway to all matters relating to housing and dementia. The resources will be of interest to professionals from all sectors looking to extend the options available to people with dementia and improve the quality services.

They are divided into the following topics:

  • Commissioning
  • Provision
    • Extra Care and Supported Housing
    • Specialist care and support services
    • Assistive Technology
  • Design and Built Environment
  • Practice, Workforce and Training
    • Practice
    • Training and Workforce
  • Legislation and Regulation
  • Useful dementia sites