Angela Morrison Director Quattro Design Architects

1. Targeting Downsizers Changing housing needs in older age and the tools available to improve the offer. Angela Morrison Director Quattro Design Architects

2. Targeting Downsizers Changing housing needs in older age and the tools available to improve the offer

3. Targeting Downsizers Resources available from the Housing LIN - Tools

4. Targeting Downsizers Resources available from the Housing LIN - Tools

5. Targeting Downsizers Resources available from the Housing LIN - Sector specific resources

6. Targeting Downsizers • Where the older old • are living • Own family home • Care homes • Sheltered housing • Almshouse • Hospital • Hotel

7. Targeting Downsizers • Recent Housing offers • to older people • Bungalows • Park homes • Retirement villages • Extra Care • Abroad

8. Targeting Downsizers • How to create a market for Downsizers • Why you would not choose to downsize • Financial pressures • still paying mortgage • protecting inheritance • supporting children and grandchildren • cost of care • income from lodger • income from FIT • Space pressures • familiar neighbourhood, shops, • leisure activities • room for boomerang children • room for hobbies • storage for a lifetime’s belongings • garage for car • well stocked garden • room for grandchild care • room for live-in carer

9. Targeting Downsizers • Space pressures • too many empty rooms to heat • too much garden to look after • safety worries • location no longer suitable • friends moved away • seeking same generation neighbours • How to create a market for Downsizers • Why you wouldchoose to downsize • Financial pressures • release equity to pay for care • release equity to help children/grandchildren • cost of utility bills • cost of repairs and maintenance

10. Targeting Downsizers Design Guidance

11. Targeting Downsizers • Design Guidance • Lifetime Homes • temporary ground floor bed space • ground floor WC with wet room drain • stair to suit stair lift installation • generous first floor bathroom

12. Targeting Downsizers Design Guidance Dementia Design

13. Targeting Downsizers Future housing offers to older people Silver Linings- an RIBA report

14. Targeting Downsizers • Future housing offers to older people • The older-age friendly house • high density (41/ha) • accessible ground floor bedroom • accessible ground floor WC with wet • room shower • attic en-suite master bedroom • on curtilage parking • patio garden

15. Targeting Downsizers • Future housing offers to older people • The older-age friendly house • low density layout (21/ha) • accessible ground floor ‘third’ bedroom • accessible ground floor WC with wet room shower • generous floor area

16. Targeting Downsizers Future housing offers to older people Extended family housing

17. Targeting Downsizers Future housing offers to older people Co-housing - a solution to loneliness? A letter to the Guardian last month prompted by an article about loneliness by George Monbiot pin-pointed the effect of planning policy on individualisation. “Private housing is being designed to be not only privately owned but anti-social in its occupation. Planners should be engaged in the provision of co-housing where care and companionship are the norm”

18. Targeting Downsizers Future housing offers to older people Dementia extra care Beeches Manor, Wokingham

19. Targeting Downsizers Future housing offers to older people Nursing apartments Health Hotels - the resurgence of the GP lead cottage hospital

20. Targeting Downsizers Future housing offers to older people Doing it for ourselves a volunteer ethos- desire and necessity for next generation of older people; mutual ownership, ‘virtual’ villages The Japanese model – Fureai Kippu

21. Targeting Downsizers Future housing offers to older people Whatever you do, future proof it! There will always be a demand for two bed flats; we could do worse than design every building to convert to a block of those