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Title
HAPPI Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation
Year published
2009
Authors
Matthew Barac, Julia Park
Design
Pollard Thomas Edwards
Foreword
Lord McKenzie of Luton, Phil Hope MP
Chairman of HAPPI
Lord Best OBE
Project coordinator
Patrick Devlin
Publisher
Homes and Communities Agency
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HAPPI – the Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation – was commissioned by the Homes and Communities Agency on behalf of Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health to set out the case for change in the provision of housing for older people.

Pollard Thomas Edwards was selected by the HCA jointly with Levitt Bernstein Associates to play a key role in this landmark government commission. Together we organised the process, which included visits to 24 exemplar schemes in six countries, conducted background research, and co-authored the final report, which was launched in December 2009. It has been enthusiastically received by sector agencies and is already being put to use as a policy driver within new developments.

The report highlights new models for housing and care which inspired the panel during their European study visits. These include the co-housing model, where groups of older people initiate a project to meet their own specific housing needs and see that project through to fruition via highly participatory design and management processes. The report also highlights the model in which homes are designed around a social hub which provides facilities to support a range of activities, and where residents and the wider community can come together.

Over recent years this country has built very few new homes specifically to meet the needs and aspirations of our ageing population. Without a sufficiently attractive ‘offer’, most of us will stay put in homes that may gradually become harder to manage, maintain and keep warm, increasingly inaccessible and, sometimes, insecure and lonely places to spend a large part of every day.”
Lord Best OBE
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