Housing, Community Care and Supported Housing

Editors: Mark Foord and Paul Simic

Member price**: £20.00 Non-member price: £25.00

The changes which have taken place in community care and supported housing over the last few years have probably been greater than in any other aspect of housing. There is now almost a new profession of 'housing carers'. This book, bringing together a range of contributors from academic commentators to people in practice, looks at the effects of these changes and the prospects for the future.

It ranges over the broad policy issues as well as looking at certain aspects - like services for older people, the homeless, and people with mental health problems - in more detail. It considers information needs and the prospects for new technologies to give people more control and help them feel more secure. The book brings a strong - often radical - 'equality' perspective to the issues and critically considers government policy and its recent development. It is probably the first book to look generally at these changes and assess the implications from a housing perspective. It will be invaluable both to students and to practitioners and policy makers concerned with developments in this field.

Sponsored by Home Group

Published in partnership with the Housing Studies Association (HSA)

Price: £25.00 ISBN: 1-903208-39-4 Order no: 119 Published: September 2005

Contents

Foreword by Malcolm Levi of Home Group Ltd.

PART ONE: Housing, care, and support - setting the context

Introduction: supported housing and community care - towards a new landscape of precariousness?
Mark Foord
Housing and community care in its historical and political context
Murray Hawtin
Working in partnership for 'joined up' housing and community care
Julie Savory
Scoping the supported housing sector - the funding and regulatory framework
Deborah Bennett
Involving users and carers in housing and social care planning - the rhetoric of 'user empowerment
Charlie Cooper
Housing needs assessments: time to move on?
Bogusia Temple

PART TWO: Housing, care and support: key user groups

Learning disability, housing and community care
David Race
Adapting to life - are adaptations a remedy for disability?
Pam Thomas and Marcus Ormerod
'He went berserk and stabbed his mother 43 times' - Thinking in headlines: mental health and housing
Paul Simic
Supported housing and frail older people - towards whole systems approaches?
Mark Foord

PART THREE: Looking to the future

Contested communities? Homelessness, substance misuse and regeneration policy
Anya Ahmed and Julia Lucas
Housing and community care: a comparative perspective
Tim Brown and Nichola Yates
Not another policy plan: Supporting People strategies and community care
Tim Brown, Jo Richardson and Jackie Thompson-Ercan
Conclusion: 'social capital' - a systems approach to housing and community care Paul Simic