Category Archives: RETIREMENT HOUSING

Social care confusion

Posted on May 28, 2017 by john graham

I have argued in this blog for years that the only way to release significantnt resources to pay for good quality social for older people is to unlock the equity many older people have in their houses and then expect … Continue reading →

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Social Care Class Action on Bingo

Posted on May 14, 2017 by john graham

Amid all the recent concern about the shortage of funding for older people needing care, “Social care ” hit the headlines today from a rather unusual source.   This is The Times front page headline for the 10 May :- ” Stop … Continue reading →

Posted in Care Funding, Residential Care | 6 Comments

Welsh Housing Report 4

Posted on March 26, 2017 by john graham

“Older people at Home in Wales” This is the fourth of my series of comments on the report entitled “Our Housing Agenda:  Meeting the Aspirations of Older People in Wales”.  (You can see my earlier posts by clicking Welsh Housing … Continue reading →

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Welsh Housing Report 3

Posted on March 12, 2017 by john graham

Over the past two weekends I have been offering my thoughts on the recently published report ” OUR HOUSING AGENDA: MEETING THE ASPIRATIONS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN WALES “.     It is a comprehensive and ambitious effort to build a … Continue reading →

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Welsh Older People’s Housing 2

Posted on March 5, 2017 by john graham

This is the second post on the housing proposals in a report being considered by the Welsh Assembly.    This time it is all about the numbers, which is the acid test of whether aspiration can become reality.  All too … Continue reading →

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Welsh Older People’s Housing 1

Posted on February 26, 2017 by john graham

Last week I wrote a scathing critique of the Governments White Paper on Housing and my view that it will do very little to improve the desperate shortage of housing for older people in the U.K.   At much the … Continue reading →

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Housing Delusion

Posted on February 19, 2017 by john graham

This month the Government published a White Paper “Fixing our broken housing market” which was whiter than white.     Full of home truths, so full that you could not disagree with any of it.    Except, all of it. … Continue reading →

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“Inaction Turns To Care Home Crisis”

Posted on November 6, 2016 by john graham

Many of the themes in my blog seem to repeat themselves year after year.  None more so that the subject of residential care, which I started writing about in 2010 shortly after I had retired from the ExtraCare Charitable Trust. … Continue reading →

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Retirement Housing – A Game Changer.

Posted on October 1, 2016 by john graham

This post follows on from my previous post and builds on the many comments I have had on this and earlier posts on the subject of Retirement Housing.   (You can find them all in the Topics List under the … Continue reading →

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Retirement Housing – Government Perspective.

Posted on September 27, 2016 by john graham

This follows on from the previous blog on my market overview of retirement housing. The current Government only has housing for new starters on the housing ladder in it’s sights.    They see retirement housing as a luxury only to … Continue reading →

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