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.
Why are 9,000 annual cold home deaths met with such a shrug of indifference?
Widespread media coverage has been detailing the death of Barbara Bolton who was found by her grandson slumped at her kitchen table and unable to speak because of profound hypothermia.
Energy blackouts could lead to increase in serious falls in the home
More than 600,000 older people will be at significant risk of harm from a potential energy blackout this winter due to the poor quality of their housing.
Prime Minister’s housing reforms offer no solace from cost-of-living crisis for older renters
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled new housing proposals including extending the Right to Buy to housing association tenants and allowing low earners to use housing benefit towards a mortgage.