Home is where most people want to be in later life and 80% of homeowners aged 65 and over wish to stay where they are. Homes are important for health and wellbeing – home adaptations can delay a move into residential care by four years.
Home improvement is the ‘triple dividend’ the UK desperately needs
Whoever gains the keys to Number 10 at the next election knows they will have limited resources to work with to fix a range of large-scale, long-term challenges the country faces.
Our new State of Ageing report details how older people from some Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds are more likely to live in poverty, poor housing and poorer health than average.
Living in a cold home: A Good Home Network briefing
This briefing outlines some of the challenges and proposes potential solutions to help home improvement services to support people living in cold homes.
Numbers of impoverished older people from minority ethnic backgrounds set to soar without urgent action
Our newly published State of Ageing report details how older people from certain ethnic minority backgrounds are currently much more likely to be living in poor health, deep poverty and inadequate housing than the national average.
Taxpayers pay more for annual maintenance of Houses of Parliament than rest of country’s homes combined
A new report, from the Centre for Ageing Better and the Healthier Housing Partnership, details for the first time the decline in government funding for home improvement support over the past decade.