Housing Strategy for Older People 2007-2010

This Housing Strategy for Older People 2007-2010 (pdf) presents a framework for the council and its partner organisations in the future delivery and provision of housing advice and services to elderly residents living in the borough.

The aim is to promote economic and social inclusion, health and well being for older adults in the borough.

The quality of housing is linked to health and well being and the challenge will be to develop housing options that respond to the different needs of an increasingly diverse elderly population as they get older.

The strategy links closely to Ealing’s Community Strategy: Success through Diversity, and directly to the Quality of Life Strategy for Older People and Carers 2006.

It is the result of consultation and research by the council and its partners identifying what is needed to achieve the main strategy objectives:

promote independence and safety in the home
provide a range and choice of housing across all tenures including supported housing as an alternative to residential and nursing care
improve the quality of homes lived in by older people
address the housing needs of a diverse older population

The strategy identifies three broad challenges and a number of key actions that follow and address these challenges.

Read the full Housing Strategy for Older People 2007-2010 (pdf).