1. Dementia and Housing Policy Context
Feeling at Home
Dementia and Housing
Policy Context

2. Unresolved Social Care Funding
Wider Policy Context
Unresolved Social Care Funding
Rising Demand
Local Freedom

3. Unequal Impact Hospital pressures Residential Care Needs
25% longer
2x more likely to be readmitted
20% more likely to die
3x more likely to fall
Residential Care Needs
1/3 people with Dementia in residential or nursing care
80% of people in care
In our Communities
2/3 of costs is borne by people with dementia & carers £17.4B
Ageism, stigma & lack of capacity affects service provision & access
Hospital figures from CHKS
Care Figures from Alzheimers society

4. Housing: Part of the 2020 Dementia Challenge
Reduce Stigma
Raise Awareness
Raise Rate of Diagnosis
Support Independence
Reduce Crisis Points
18 Priorities for 2018
Builds on 2012 achievements
Mixes Public Health, research, awareness & social action & commitments to co-production
Role for housing in:
Joined up working
Workforce awareness & training
Creating dementia friendly health & care settings incl. Home
Sits within the larger integration & transformation of health & care

5. Successes & Challenges
Designing for Dementia
Buildings
Aids, Adaptations & equipment
Specialist or inclusive?
Housing supply
Specialist provision
Ordinary housing and existing stock?
Workforce issues
Awareness Raising
Person centred approaches
Professional skills & training
Better integrated working
MOU for joint action

6. Private Sector Housing
85% of older people in ordinary homes
Improve resilience of existing stock
Design challenges
Principles inadequately embedded
Inclusive design for ordinary homes
Inadequately trained workforce
Inadequately informed customers
DFG within the BCF
Largely addresses physical & sensory impairments
2% in any one year
Market Failure
Access to design, advice & adaptions
Lack of incentive to improve

7. Positive responses
Today!

8. Positive responses
Today!
Training in Dementia Friendly design

9. Positive responses Today! Training in Dementia Friendly design
Better targeting & focus of DFG within the BCF

10. Positive responses Today! Training in Dementia Friendly design
Better targeting & focus of DFG within the BCF
LA DFG spending power to shape market for inclusive design

11. Positive responses Today! Training in Dementia Friendly design
Better targeting & focus of DFG within the BCF
LA DFG spending power to shape market for inclusive design
Develop collaborative and strategic approaches to dementia

12. Positive responses Today! Training in Dementia Friendly design
Better targeting & focus of DFG within the BCF
LA DFG spending power to shape market for inclusive design
Develop collaborative and strategic approaches to dementia
Develop strong housing information and advice services