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The Housing LIN
The Housing Learning & Improvement Network (LIN) is the national network for promoting new ideas and supporting change in the delivery of housing, care and support services for older and vulnerable adults, including people with disabilities and long term conditions.
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- At a Glance (pdf - 67Kb)
A downloadable list of all the Housing LIN resources and learning material - Extra Care Housing Toolkit
This toolkit developed by the Housing LIN contains sections that cover in detail the essential elements in developing extra care housing from overall strategy, needs analysis, assessing current and potential supply, implementation and evaluation. - Design principles for Extra Care housing - Housing LIN Factsheet no6
This factsheet gives essential basic information about key design principles and issues to consider when designing and developing a brief for a new Extra Care Scheme. Case studies illustrate the variety of models that this concept of housing takes and show ways of developing a range of different sites.
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A toolkit for producing a strategy for accommodation with care for older people
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Latest Housing News
- Get involved in the National Housing for Older People Awards 2011
Supported again by the Housing LIN, the Elderly Accommodation Counsel has launched its appeal to managers of all sheltered, retirement and extra care housing schemes in the UK to encourage their residents to nominate their schemes by playing the familiar card game successfully developed last year to capture the views and experiences of those playing the game. - Housing LIN Newsletter July 2010 Out Now
Please click on the link to download the July 2010 eNewsletter - DH White Paper - Building the National Care Service
Further to the Green Paper on the future of care and support in England, the government has published today its White Paper, Building the National Care Service. This sets out the vision and commitment for establishing a National Care Service and places significant focus on greater integration, partnership working and collaboration within health and social care economies.
