Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Barbican Centre, London EC1

Conference Papers

If you would like to order the papers for this conference, including the slide presentations as they were presented to the delegate on the day, click here.

Through Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods the government has put in place a new strategy to give older people greater choice and independence in their housing needs and within their neighbourhoods.

This national conference will look at how to improve current housing stock and services and rise to the challenges for new housing. Delegates will explore how to meet the targets to ‘future proof’ all new homes so that by 2011 all new social housing meets the Lifetime Homes standard, and by 2013 all new homes are ‘age friendly’. The event will also examine what ‘age-friendly’ cities should look like and the role planners and councils have in creating them.

As well as demonstrating how we can plan for an ageing population, speakers will present how best services can support older people now through the National Housing Advice and Information Service, the £460m Disabled Facilities Grant and £33m rapid repair and adaptations service.

For further information contact Laura Brownlee on 020 7324 4372,
e-mail laura.brownlee@neilstewartassociates.co.uk