• Typically self contained
dwellings for physically and
mentally active older people who wish to live in a ‘sheltered’
environment
• There may be a warden on site and sometimes shared
communal facilities
• Care is brought to individuals
as required on a visiting basis
• Planning use class: C3: dwellings
• For people who need assistance
with everyday tasks
• This is sub-divided into:
o Residential care
o Nursing Care
o Dementia Care
o Intermediate Care o Respite Care
o Day Care
• En-suite bedrooms arranged in self-contained households
• Planning use class:
C2: Residential Institutional
• Also known as assisted living
• Self-contained homes with design
and support features to enable self-
care and independent living
• Commonly apartments accessed
from a communal corridor in a
single building
• Shared communal facilities and 24
hour care staff on site
• Care is brought to the residents as needed and the building is
adaptable to change
• Planning use class: ‘sui-generis’
• Can be a development large
enough to sustain its own
community
• When different levels of care are
combined into a single facility
the term ‘Continuing Care
Retirement Community’ (CCRC) is often used
• Planning use class can be a
combination of or just C2 / C3 /
sui-generis
Create a ‘home’
• Older people are sensitive to their
surroundings
• The design of the built environment can have a significant impact on older
people
• Design should create an enabling
environment that gives people
independence, choice, maintain their
lifestyle and contact with the wider
community
• Design should compensate for the
impairments of old age:
o Impaired mobility
o Impaired vision
o Impaired hearing
o Dementia
o Sensitivity to changes in temperature
• Design should facilitate the efficient delivery of care and enhance the
quality of life for the residents
• Design should balance commercial issues of construction and operating
costs with a domestic lifestyle
• Housing LIN website
(www.housinglin.org.uk)
• Happi and Happi2 Report
• National Planning Policy
Framework
• Lifetime Homes Lifetime
Neighbourhoods
• Housing Standards Review
• Space standards and flexibility
• Daylight
• Natural light and ventilation
• Adaptability – ‘care ready’
• Positive use of circulation space
• Community hub
• External space inc. shared surfaces
• Sustainability
• Adequate storage
• Community Resource – ‘Hub’
• Community Integration
• Accessibility
• Social Inclusion
• Security
• Progressive Privacy
• Space standards
• Communal areas
• Flexibility / adaptability
• Positive use of circulation
space
• Storage
• Mixed tenure
• Natural light and ventilation
• Dual aspect
• Large windows but avoid solar gain
• Cross ventilation
• Passive stack ventilation
• Energy efficiency
• Air tightness
• Maintenance
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Assistive Technology
• Flood
• Staff call
• Falls/Movement
• Reminder
• Monitoring
• Staff / management strategy
• Fire Strategy
• Operational / maintenance costs
• Scooter store
• Multi-use spaces
• Ancillary facilities
• Kitchen
• Laundry
• Refuse
• Storage
• Extra care schemes as community hubs
• Extra care as part of a continuing care
development
• Extra care as a component in regeneration
• Site specific
• Community focused
• Larger
• Often mixed tenures
• Higher levels of care requirements
• Location often key
• Often a component in urban
regeneration
• Daycare centre
• Links with adjacent
school
• PCT office
• Home-care office
• Housing office
• Bistro open to public
• Themed gardens
• ‘Village Hall’
Owner: Arena Housing Association Limited Architect: Pozzoni
Owner: St. Monica Trust Architect: KWL
• 108 independent living and extra care apartments
• 30 resident nursing with
care home
• 73 resident nursing with dementia care home
• Communal facilities
• 26 one and two bedroom
extra care apartments
• 72 care bedrooms
• Communal facilities
Owner: Belong / CLS Care Services Architect: Pozzoni