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Delivering Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods: A National Strategy for Housing in an Ageing Society

Publisher: 
UK Department of Health
Country: 
UK
Year Published: 
2008
Categories: 
Age Friendly Communities

 

The ageing society poses one of our greatest housing challenges. By 2026 older people will have accounted for almost half (48 per cent) of the increase in the total number of households, resulting in 2.4 million more older households than there are today. We are building for an ageing society. Good housing is imperative for wellbeing in later life and critical if we are to manage the mounting pressures of health,care and support expenditure. 

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