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- Useful links to information about housing, care and support for older people
Useful links to information about housing, care and support for older people
Introduction
There are a number of organisations that provide advice and information on the options for housing and support services that are available to older people. Many also undertake innovative projects and research on older people's housing and care issues.
The following list contains links to organisations that we think provide useful information (many of which are identified in Quality and Choice for Older People's Housing) for those interested in housing and support for older people.
Although primarily designed for use by policy makers and practitioners, older people, their families and carers may also find the information provided of interest. The list is by no means exhaustive but we hope provides a starting point for obtaining information and advice.
Please note that inclusion does not constitute a recommendation by HOPDEV, any of its members' organisations, Communities and Local Government or the Department of Health.
Government Departments and related bodies
- Audit Commission (external link)
- Cabinet Office (external link)
- Communities and Local Government
- Department of Health (external link)
- Department for Work and Pensions : Opportunity Age - Meeting the challenges of ageing in the 21st Century (external link)
- DirectGov (external link)
- Government Information for Carers (external link)
- Health and Safety Executive (external link)
- Improvement and Development Agency (IDEA) (external link)
- Integrated Care Network (external link)
- Local Government Association (external link)
- National Assembly for Wales (external link)
- Northern Ireland Executive (external link)
- Office of National Statistics (external link)
- Scottish Executive (external link)
- Supporting People (external link)
Housing and Support Services
- Abbeyfield Society (external link)
- Age Concern England (external link)
- Age Concern Institute of Gerontology (external link)
- AIMS (Age Concern Advice Information and Mediation Service for sheltered and retirement housing) (external link)
- Almshouse Association (external link)
- Alzheimers Society (external link)
- Anchor Trust (external link)
- ASRA Greater London Housing Association (Asian provider of rented accommodation) (external link)
- Association of Social and Community Alarms Provider (ASAP) (external link)
- Association of Retirement Housing Managers (ARHM) (external link)
- Black Information Link (BLINK!) & The 1990 Trust (external link)
- Care and Repair England (external link)
- Centre for policy on Ageing (external link)
- Centre for Sheltered Housing Studies (external link)
- Chartered Institute of Housing (external link)
- Counsel and Care for Older People (external link)
- Disability Alliance (external link)
- Disability Rights Commission (external link)
- Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) (external link)
- ERoSH (The Emerging Role of Sheltered Housing) (external link)
- Federation of Black Housing Organisations (external link)
- Foundations (The National Co-Ordinating Body for Home Improvement Agencies) (external link)
- Housing Associations Charitable Trust (external link)
- Hanover Group (external link)
- Help the Aged (external link)
- House Builders Federation (external link)
- Housing 21 (external link)
- Housing Corporation (external link)
- McCarthy & Stone (external link)
- National Housing Federation (external link)
- RADAR (Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation) (external link)
- ROOM The National Council for Housing and Planning (external link)
- SAGA (external link)
- Supporting People Directory (external link)
- Tenant Participation Advisory Service (external link)
Research and Social Policy
- Institute of Gerontology, King's College London (external link)
- British Society of Gerontology (external link)
- Centre for Policy on Ageing (external link)
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation (external link)
- King's Fund (external link)
- Social Care Online (external link)
- Equal Research Network (external link)
Miscellaneous
- Lifelong Learning (external link)
- Older Peoples Information Network (external link)
- World Assembly on Ageing (Madrid 2002) (external link)
- UN Programme on Ageing (external link)
Local housing, health and social service authorities
The following local authorities have provided useful, well set out information on their older people services:
- Cambridgeshire County Council (external link)
- North Kesteven District Council (external link)
- Sheffield City Council (external link)
- London Borough of Hounslow (external link)
- City of Westminster (external link)
- Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council (external link)
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