More Housing Choices For Older People
The Labour party has unveiled a new housing strategy aimed at giving elderly citizens more choice in the way they live.
Lifetime Homes is a new housing strategy looking to change the way in which the residents of neighbourhoods communicate with each other. It is also seeking to build homes that will be able to provide great support to elderly citizens.
Building of the new homes will begin from 2013, and will include features such as wider doors, improved designs of bathrooms, and staircases which will be wide enough to be able to facilitate stair lifts.
As of 2011, the Government aims to ensure that all social housing will be built in the manner of the Lifetime Homes properties. This is so that providing more support for elderly citizens in their homes will begin to take effect.
The Prime Minister said this in relation to the new plans: “This strategy sets out a package of measures that will enable older people to live in high quality, warm environments that are suited to their needs – homes that help to make life easier, and to turn the challenges of ageing into opportunities.”
The Government is also planning more ‘age-friendly’ neighbourhoods. These neighbourhoods ill include ten planned eco-towns, which will be among the first to meet new standards for older people.
Chris Horrie said,
May 3, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Labour’s been pretty good news for (poorer) older people. Pensions are up, and there’s all sort of benefits. One thing is old people get looked after by politicians because they always votes (sometimes in some constituencies they are pretty much the ONLY people voting) and they can swing the outcome in a whole lot of marginal constituencies.