Elderly Accommodation Counsel News

See the brand new 10 minute demonstration video on how the nominations are made by residents of sheltered and retirement housing. Order our free card games now. Housing providers and managers! Make sure that your residents are aware of the Awards; help them nominate your schemes.

FirstStop Advice has gained a ringing endorsement from its users.

"The evaluation showed a positive picture of the service developing over 2009. There has been a continual increase in customer volumes, with a particularly strong rise in the number of people using the service from September to November. Customer volumes will exceed the targets agreed with Communities and Local Government (CLG), who have invested in the initiative."

• Click here to read the Press Release
• Click here to read the Evaluation Report 

At last the retirement housing sector has its own dedicated awards.

At the inaugural event at Lords on Feb 4 around 340 guests, including designers, providers and managers of retirement housing and over 100 elderly residents were present to see 32 Awards handed out across 11 categories of retirement housing and housing with care.

Peverel Retirement has dominated the QI Mark scene over recent weeks, having made the decision to encourage all its 1,500 House Managers to complete our questionnaire. Around two thirds of its UK-wide portfolio of leasehold retirement developments now carry the Mark. Housing 21 also notched up a further QI Mark during the week for its recently completed Summer Court 'extra care' development in Hythe Kent.

Congratulations to both on helping take the number of schemes awarded the Mark to overy 3,500.

The EAC Quality of Information Mark aims to encourage housing providers to present detailed and accurate information on this website about their specialist housing for older people. Find out more about the QI Mark.

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