Housing, Care and Support: Volume 7 Issue 4

Capital gains and losses

Lynn Watson

What makes older people choose residential care, and are there alternatives?

Pippa Stilwell, Andrew Kerslake

This article summarises some results of an interview survey of older people recently admitted to care homes which aimed to estimate how many might have been able to take advantage…

Extra care housing: Remodelling for the future

Tony Clarke

As our population grows older and we see a new generation of older people demand services tailored for individuals, service providers have to be increasingly responsive in…

Electronic assistive technology: Benefits for all?

John Gatward

For more than a decade there has been a powerful drive towards providing care services to older and disabled people in their own homes. Technology is beginning to provide devices…

Community alarm services: The Carlisle experience Putting the quality back into quality assurance

Laurie Brewis

Carlisle Housing Association Ltd (CHA), created in December 2002 as a consequence of the transfer of Carlisle City Council's housing stock (7,200 properties), is located some 12…

Coming of age: Meeting the challenge of older homelessness

Jenny Pannell, Guy Palmer

Older people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness have diverse and varied needs. Their needs are not the same as those of either younger homeless people or older people who…

Youth homelessness in Britain and Australia: The same story?

Colin Robinson

The article examines approaches to helping young homeless people in Britain and Australia, and concludes that the similarities far outweigh the differences.

Listening, learning and making change

Joanne McNally, Caroline Humphreys

This article sets out to describe the approach that Caer Las has adopted to evaluating its delivery of services to vulnerable people. It attempts to capture the work undertaken to…