Join us for an online event exploring how housing can help ageing communities to be more resilient to climate change.
Older people and communities are facing major ecological and societal changes created by the climate crisis, and in this event we will explore how the resilience of ageing communities can be shaped by their living environments.
This online Sustainable Places event will explore ways that housing for ageing communities can become more resilient to changes like the climate crisis, using the charitable almshouse dwelling model as an example.
About this event
In this Sustainable Places: Housing for Resilient Ageing Communities event we’ll explore how housing for ageing communities can become more resilient to changes like the climate crisis. The resilience of older people is closely linked with their homes and living environments. In the UK around 33,500 people live in almshouses, which are low-cost housing dwellings managed as a charitable trust. Most almshouse residents are older adults.
Join this discussion with researchers from the Almshouse Resilient Communities for the Future project where we will explore how the built environment can adapt to change and contribute to community resilience. We will present initial findings from the project and examine how insights from the almshouse housing model can be applied to older people. We will reflect on places, communities and governance, and how they can jointly enable resilience to the climate crisis.
