The trustees are currently reviewing their strategy for developing the services they offer, and they have now agreed in principle to develop new extra care housing in another part of London yet to be identified.
Extra care housing provides a model of accommodation between sheltered housing, which the Trust currently provides, and a residential care home. The Trust's vision is to build high quality flats designed as 'homes for life'. Residents would therefore live independently in their own flats, as they do now, but benefit from a range of communal and recreational facilities designed to encourage residents to engage in an active and fulfilled old age.
We plan to provide homes for ladies with a wide range of care needs. Some will be very independent and have no care needs. Others will have quite heavy care needs, and there will be those with varying levels of need in between. The particular advantage of the extra care housing model is that there will be a permanent team of carers on site able to respond to those care needs as they arise or increase.
The Trust is at a very early stage in developing its plans, and cannot at the moment say when the new facilities will be available or where they will be located.
For more information, please contact the Chief Executive.
