Mental Health

Good housing is known to have a beneficial impact on maintaining mental health in general and this is reflected in the resources you will find throughout the Housing LIN website.

The resources listed below are about how housing related services and support can respond to the needs of people with specific mental problems, both working age and older people.

They include items about older people with 'functional' mental health problems such as depression and schizophrenia but not dementia (which is sometimes described as 'organic').

Resources will include a range of housing and support options for people with mental health needs and will include work undertaken at a local and national level to deliver settled accommodation for people as part of PSA 16.

Resources more specifically for homeless people with mental health needs can be found on the Homelessness page: www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/Homelessness

The information in these pages is split between 3 topics:

• Housing options
• PSA 16 on settled accommodation and employment
• Older People