Home Not Alone is the first housing and support strategy for older people in Leeds. It aims to help integrate housing, support and care to promote the independence and well being of older people and how to influence and deliver improvements to the quality and choice of housing available for older people in the city.
The strategy has been developed within both a national and a local context. It emphasises the close links between housing, housing support, care and health services. Housing is not just about bricks and mortar, it is about providing an environment where older people can be supported to live independently by a range of services.
The strategy has been developed in the wider context of national and local developments in housing, care and health and by adopting a whole system approach. It demonstrates our commitment to wanting good quality housing, support, care and health services to be available to all older people wherever they choose to live.
We recognise that given both the size of Leeds and the scale of need to be addressed we must have effective local strategies and delivery arrangements which both engage with and are responsive to older people. The strategy is best delivered by active partnerships working together at a local level to allow older people to live more independently for longer.
Home Not Alone seeks to build on the success of previous partnership working, to further strengthen joint working and to offer service commissioners and planners (from Housing, Supporting People, Social Care and Health) a strategic basis on which to take advantage of opportunities that are collaborative, imaginative, make maximum use of resources and which bring real benefit to older people in Leeds.
Paul Langford
Chief Officer
Housing Services
Mike Evans
Chief Officer
Adult Services