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At a time of unprecedented pressures on public expenditure higher standards of evidence are being demanded by policy makers, planners and commissioners, including demonstrating the cost benefits of well-established services.
A lack of investment in high standard academic research into housing, health, care and ageing connections, particularly to the ‘gold standard’ of a randomised control trial, could put practical housing services at risk.
These include the very services that older people tell us they value so highly – help with home adaptations, housing repairs, handyperson schemes and home improvement agencies.
Brochure about the Catch 22 project is available here
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The reason for the name of the project is because increasingly practical housing services (e.g. adaptations & repairs assistance schemes) find themselves in a ‘Catch 22’ situation i.e.
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