ageing population

Local leaders need to work together to identify a single plan and budget for housing, health and social care to better support older people, according to a report.

Giving this year’s TCPA Sir Frederic J Osborn Memorial Lecture, professor Sir Malcolm Grant CBE, chair of NHS England, spoke on the theme of ‘healthy planning’ and his organisation’s ongoing programme of ‘Healthy New Towns’.

Two-thirds of local authorities in the UK have no elderly accommodation policy or site allocation at all, while less than 10 per cent have both an elderly persons’ housing planning policy and allocated site for such housing, new research has suggested.