Extra Care Housing Enabling More Older People And Those With Dementia And Long-term Conditions To Live In A Home Of Their Own, UK
July 22nd, 2008 | by admin |Health and Care Minister Ivan Lewis today (Monday 21 July) announcedthe sites that will benefit from ￡80million of Government funding tobuild extra care housing, enabling more older people and those withdementia and long-term conditions to live in a home of their own. Hewill today be presenting the successful Barnsley extra care housingscheme with a cheque for ￡3.8 million together with Sir MichaelParkinson.
People who are unable to continue to live in their own homes havetraditionally had their choices limited to care homes, creating anumber of problems including couples finding they can no longer livetogether.
Extra care housing gives people a home of their own where wide rangesof care and support services are provided on site. Tenants enjoygreater privacy, dignity and independence, couples can stay together,and social and leisure opportunities can be enjoyed at the resident’sconvenience. In addition, homeowners may be able to keep some of theequity in their property.
Health Minister Ivan Lewis said:
“I am delighted to announce these 25 successful extra care housingsites.
“Extra care housing is about offering people a choice. Too often Ihear of cases where a couple who have been together for over fiftyyears are forced apart because one requires care and has no choicebut to enter residential or nursing care leaving their partner athome. I want to change that. Extra care housing will give people achoice about how and where they choose to spend their later life.”The Department of Health has already allocated ￡147 million to LocalAuthorities for extra care housing between 2004 and 2008. Thisfurther ￡80 million, bringing the total investment to ￡227 million,will be allocated over the next two years to the 25 successfulschemes.
The 25 sites which successfully bid for a share of the ￡80 millionare-
– Yorkshire & Humberside Barnsley MBC
Bethel Road Extra Care, ￡3,792,249
– West Midlands City Council
Shaftmoor Lane, Birmingham ￡3,500,020
– West Midlands Metropolitan Borough Council
Whitehouse Street, Dudley ￡2,000,000
– East Midlands City
Chellaston Village, Derby ￡3,500,000
– East Midlands Boston, Lincolnshire
Broadfield House ECH ￡3,530,000
– East Midlands City Council
Welland Court, Nottingham ￡2,921,994
– North West Darwen Borough Council
Kingsway, Blackburn with ￡4,100,000
– North West
Brookside, Lancashire ￡7,325,000
– North West Carlisle
Carlisle Extra Care Scheme, ￡4,740,000
– North West City Council
Whitebeck Court, Manchester ￡6,546,000
– North West
Newbury Court, Trafford ￡1,930,298
– North West
Mendell Lodge, Wirral ￡2,729,913
– South West County Council
Archbishop Wake, Dorset ￡1,750,000
– South West
Dunboyne, Torbay ￡1,239,000
– South West
Rutland House, Wiltshire ￡1,443,000
– London Hackney
Mount Pleasant Court, ￡3,439,972
– South East Coast Hove City Council
Vernon Gardens, Brighton & ￡1,000,000
– South Central Keynes Council
Kiln Farm Village, Milton ￡3,500,000
– South Central County Council
Brighton Hill, Hampshire ￡3,184,016
– South Central County Council
Orchard Fields, Oxfordshire ￡1,350,000
– East of England County Council
Shaftsbury Court, Essex ￡5,306,000
– North East Shields, South Tyneside
Dorset Avenue, South ￡3,483,212
– North East Scheme, Sunderland City Council
Racecourse Extra Care ￡1,482,000
– North East Borough Council
Orwell Walk, Hartlepool ￡2,993,400
– North East Council
Linskill, North Tyneside ￡2,849,000
Total ￡79,635,074
The schemes which had bid for funding were assessed on a number ofqualities, including:
– provision of flats with a minimum of one double bedrooms so that couples could be housed together demonstrating commitment to ensuring the dignity of their residents offering choice and putting personalisation high on their agenda
making use of Telecare, telehealth and other assistive technology to support residents to live independently in their own homes
– helping people with dementia to remain independent for as long aspossible.
To date, the Department of Health has supported the development of72 extra care housing schemes, which are expected to provide a totalof more than 4,200 separate dwellings.
This funding will support a further 25 sites and provide an extra2,035 dwellings
In extra care housing residents have their own self-containedflats and are tenants with their own tenancy agreement. Extra CareHousing can be for rent or for sale, usually through leaseholdarrangement. This provides opportunities for tenure diversification.
The grant will be allocated during 2008-2010; ￡40 million in2008-2009 and ￡40 million in 2009-2010.
The sites will receive their funding in four parts, two in 2008/09and two in 2009/2010, as they reach the milestones set out in theDepartment of Health Extra Care Housing Fund Bidding Guidance2008-2010 published in February this year
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