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CAN SELF-FUNDERS AFFORD HOUSING WITH CARE? A GUIDE FOR PROVIDERS AND COMMISSIONERS
The guide draws on extensive research with self-funding HWC residents and with commissioners and providers and:
- provides detailed analysis and explanation of the complex factors and issues that affect the affordability of HWC for current and future self- funding HWC residents;
- includes perspectives and experiences of older people and their families, and also providers and commissioners concerning affordability of HWC;
- sets out the policy considerations and implications for local authorities and providers of the issues affecting affordability of HWC for current and future self-funders and their families.
The guide will also be of importance to those organisations participating in the Department of Health Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund, bidding to develop specialised housing for older persons and people with disabilities particularly where potential residents will include self-funders of housing, care and other services.
The guide draws on outputs from recent Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded research and resources from the Housing Learning and Improvement Network:
- Affordability, Choices and Quality of Life in Housing with Care (2012);
- Whose Responsibility? Boundaries of roles and responsibilities in Housing with Care (2012);
- The New Policy Institute report Affordability of retirement housing in the UK and JRF Findings: Who can afford retirement housing? (2012);
- Strategic Housing for Older People: Planning, designing and delivering housing that older people want (2011);
- the Housing LIN Technical Brief-Funding of Extra Care Housing (2013).
The guide seeks to provide an understanding of the affordability ‘maze’ self-funders face based on the issues and evidence from our Affordability, Choices and Quality of Life in Housing with Care study and from discussions with commissioners and providers as part of developing this guide. Particular attention is given to how the policies and practices of local authority commissioners and providers affect and impact upon the affordability of HWC for self-funders.
FULL GUIDE / PDF 44 pages 818 kb 
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