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homes good places to age Sue Adams Care & Repair England Why - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
homes good places to age Sue Adams Care & Repair England Why - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Making existing homes good places to age Sue Adams Care & Repair England Why existing homes? 80% of 2050 homes already built Why improve existing homes? REALITY Where most people live in later life (96%) Where most wish to
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Why improve existing homes?
REALITY
- Where most people live
in later life (96%)
- Where most wish to live
in later life
- Where some have no
choice but to live INACTION Hampered by ageism
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Time to target action on disrepair
- 78% of older people living in
non-decent homes are owner
- ccupiers (11% SR/11% PRS)
- 31% increase in over 75s living
in non-decent homes
- Main reason home non-
decent = falls risk and cold BUT No policy or funding since 2010
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Retrofit – Impetus?
- Housing - in the news,
but any vision?
- Carbon reduction –
could miss a trick?
- Job creation? – skills?
- ‘Levelling up’-
disadvantaged areas
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WHO?
- Care & Repair England; national housing charity aims to
address poor and unsuitable housing conditions amongst the older population, esp. low income home owners (est. 1986)
- Pioneers initiatives over 30+yrs; Local Care & Repair
services, Minor Works Grants, Handyperson, Housing Options Info & Advice, Healthy Homes, Older People’s “Housing Activism” etc
- Policy shaping: Older people’s housing – Chair of Housing
& Ageing Alliance plus Home Adaptations Consortium; member of MHCLG & DHSC Integration Partnership Board, NHS England Task Group; LGA Adviser etc… www.careandrepair-england.org.uk info@careandrepair-england.org.uk
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