Current Action

Care & Repair England closed in April 2022

This website is now an archive and some information may be out of date

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Action by Care & Repair England’s Catch 22 Project

Activities to improve housing/ health/ care evidence, and support evidence based improvements to policy and practice, included:

Brokering new partnerships and stimulate fresh research into health/ housing/ ageing connections by bringing together leading researchers and key stakeholders

Supporting clusters of researchers & stakeholders to work together on research proposals & projects that have a practical application

Highlighting the importance of improving this area of evidence to potential funders

Promoting the findings and application of emerging evidence to Government Departments, the NHS, Policy Makers, Commissioners and wider Stakeholders

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Examples of Research Underway

The Health Impacts of Housing Modifications

A collaboration between the Universities of Leeds and Swansea (led by Leeds) aims to identify cost benefits to the NHS resulting from a range of housing interventions undertaken by Care & Repair agencies in Wales. The research is funded by Dunhill Medical Trust as a result of their competition in 2019 to improve the evidence base concerning the impacts of home adaptations on the lives and health of older people, as well as potential cost benefits e.g. to the NHS.

The Efficacy and Cost-effectiveness of Bathing Adaptations- BATH-OUT

BATH-OUT is the first ever large-scale, full RCT trial of home adaptations ever to be undertaken in the UK. Following a successful Feasibility study, in 2020 funding was awarded by EPSRC SCCR for a multi-locality study into the efficacy and cost effectiveness of bathing adaptations. Research partners: Universities of Nottingham, Newcastle, Northumbria and York; Care & Repair England.

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Examples of Research into Action

Care & Repair England is a Member of the National Falls Prevention Co-Ordination Group (led by PHE) providing information and expertise in the field of housing and falls.

Resulting publications to date include: