This evaluation report about provision of impartial information and advice about housing, care and related finance in later life, provides analysis of the benefits, including the cost benefits, of the service delivered to older people by Age UK Warwickshire.
The initiative is of particular relevance due to its activity at the interface of health, housing and care and the way that the service operated as part of a pro-active GP Care Navigators initiative. This Care Navigators scheme, funded by Clinical Commissioning Groups, pro-actively contacted and visited all people over 75 yrs, particularly focussing on those with multiple long term health conditions / with indicators of high health need.
The housing options additional service was made possible through the EAC FirstStop national programme and the evaluation demonstrates the critical importance of including housing help as part of a holistic response, noting in particular the £8 payback for every £1 spent.
Older People and Housing Action 