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Older Person’s Housing in
Blackburn and Darwen
Sayyed Osman
Director of Neighbourhoods,
Housing and Customer
Services
The Strategic Aims
• To develop new extra care housing places which
reflect relevant strategies and needs
• Provide independent housing with support and long
term care
• Improve choice and contribute to a range of solutions
-unnecessary hospital admissions ,delad transferred
of care from hospitals
• To improve existing, effective local partnerships NHS, the Borough Council, care providers and
registered Social Landlords
• To make better use of existing sheltered housing
Blackburn with Darwen
Problems and Issues
• Growing population of older people, over 40% of the
population will be over 50 by 2021
• Large BME population
• Level of disability high, 10,000 people over the age of
60 with a disability
• Research showed 1 in 2 residential care placements
could have been through extra care if it was available
• Over reliance of institutional models of care in the
past
• Property values for terraced houses are amongst the
lowest in the North West, affordability problems,
although levels of home ownership is quite high
Blackburn with Darwen
Problems and Issues – Continued…
• Limited shared ownership properties within the
borough
• Still large amount of sheltered accommodation which
varies in popularity
• Gaps in provision for floating support and support
services
• Under provision of extra care places, it is estimated
we need an additional 150 places over the next 5
years, increasing to 500 by 2015
• New market segment of Learning Difficulty elders,
North West Supported Housing strategy for
projections
Priorities
• Develop the use of Assistive Technology
• Research for BEM groups
• Continue to develop service improvements and explore future
opportunities
• Investigate shared ownership, equity release and other financial
schemes
• Develop affordable housing across tenures to meet identified
housing need and ensure neighbourhood sustainability
• Provide choice in allocation of homes
• Improve joint working and partnerships between Housing, Social
Services and Health
• Develop enhanced partnership working with Housing
Associations