A report out today warns that one in eight tenants in sheltered housing in England is at risk of malnutrition. The study from the Group on Nutrition and Sheltered Housing found malnutrition to be present in 14 per cent of residents, and was more common in older residents, women and those who had lived in
A council official responsible for helping the homeless has evicted elderly and frail tenants from their sheltered housing in Norwich and moved into it herself with a colleague. Kristine Reeves co-wrote a paper last year recommending that the council demolish the 25 homes and replaces them with high-density housing and flats. Instead of using a
The government should buy homes from the elderly and allow them to move into sheltered accommodation, a parliamentary select committee has suggested. Money from the national affordable housing programme should go to buy up empty homes and those that are unoccupied and have been on the market for more than a year, the MPs said.