SILK have been involved in a project connected to the development of the Kent Forum Housing Strategy to look in to the housing needs and aspirations of older people in Kent. Activmobs provided extra capacity to the project. DTZ were also commissioned alongside SILK to take a more quantitative look at the issues, particularly at housing provision and planning.
The main aims of the project were:
- To understand the housing needs and aspirations of older people
- To map these requirements against current and future planned housing supply
- To make recommendations for the development of future services and housing provision
Focus groups, smaller interviews and workshops were held involving as many people as possible, to understand the issue from different perspectives. You can read more about the project in the report available to download here: Better Homes
Posts from our blog about this project:
September 2010, October 2010, March 2011
For the Activmob project page, which includes an in-depth report on the insights that were gathered during the project, please see Better Homes
Where this project sits within the SILK framework
Older Persons Housing Needs and Aspirations sits within Diamond 1 of the SILK Methodology
