Quality data and statistics
The evidence basis for the benefits from and increased need for Older People’s Housing is becoming much more focused and relevant. The attached recent links can all be used for business cases and strategic partnership development.
Foresight on Ageing Project
Led by a leading group of academics the attached summary on Gov.UK neatly summarises the key factors impacting on older people’s housing, Given that it is sponsored by a government office it should gain some traction in official debates.
North East Lincolnshire Extra Care Review
This is a ground breaking piece of evidence due to the large scale size of the control group. (Much larger than the well rehearsed Aston University project.) The report quotes
Care package costs to the Local Authority for residents were reduced significantly following taking up residence, although they increased slightly in the following 7-9 months, but were still 16% below pre-admission levels for people with complex needs and 18% below for people with non-complex needs. This compares with increases of 23% and 14% respectively amongst the control group.
Ten of the new residents had previously been in a care home, and whilst 3 returned there over the first 7-9 months there were no ‘new’ admissions to a care home from the other 46 new residents – amongst the control group 63 were at home at the start of the evaluation period and 6 were admitted to a care home over the same period.
An estimate of savings to the Local Authority of home care or care home services compared with the likely costs estimated from the Control Group, are £260k pa, which is an average of c£4,600 per person. The death rate amongst residents has been lower than in the control group, despite similar age profiles and initial levels of need.
The number of episodes reflecting mental health needs has been significantly lower for people in Strand Court when compared with the control group, and the number of new dementia diagnoses has been higher.
The number of contacts to the local ‘single point of access’ amongst those with complex needs has reduced very significantly, by c60%, compared with the year prior to admission.
Click to access HLIN_CaseStudy_129_Evaluating-Extra-Care.pdf
Public Health Planned Interventions
This large report does briefly highlight the importance of older people’s housing and wellbeing but loses the message amongst the many other potential prevention measures. It confirms the medical rather social approach within health. May be worth a response.
http://www.housinglin.org.uk/Discuss/forum/?obj=viewThread&forumID=87&threadID=1072
After a very busy year I wish you all a very Happy and Peaceful Christmas. Who knows what the next 12 months will bring but I hope you can continue to support your customers with the quality services they deserve.
Dan Gaul
Eastern Region Housing LIN Lead
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