Recommendation 34

Integration strategies should seek to integrate not just health and care but health, care and housing. Ensuring there is holistic care that fits around a person’s needs includes preventing care needs from arising by having suitable housing, enabling people to live independently in their own homes, and ensuring that people receive the right care and support in the right setting, recognising that most people who receive care do so in their own home. Getting housing arrangements right for people is an essential part of the equation. We recommend that integrated health strategies have proper regard to a person’s housing needs as part of their care provision.