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“Do you believe the following statements are true or false?” g True g False g Unsure/Don’t Know
respondents, but most being more rare, showing little uniformity. By a long stretch, the most common barrier – cited by 41% of our
respondents – to the adoption of such products was, perhaps unsurprisingly, costs. In a similar vein, the next most popular option, jumping down significantly however, was a lack of Government funding, listed by 17% of our respondents. Below these barriers, the remaining options chosen by our respondents were
done so by less than 10%, which included, in descending order, a lack of relevant information (8%), installation issues (7%), aiming for younger tenants (6%), Covid (5%), a lack of tenant demand and skills (both at 4%), and access (2%).
CONCLUDING SUMMARY Our survey has demonstrated that housing professionals are under no illusion – our population is ageing.
Unfortunately, as confirmed by our respondents, the UK’s housing stock
is unprepared to deal with this at present, with just a small portion of the properties under our respondent’s management – or the country’s as a whole, for that matter – being suitable for older residents at present. Te silver lining here, however, is that our respondents almost unanimously
agree that the right products can rise to this challenge, updating our housing stock to meet these needs, and save lives in the process. When attempting to bridge the gap here – between the clear need for such
products to be installed in our housing stock on a wider scale, and this having not happened already – two main barriers came front and centre: costs, and a lack of Government intervention. It appears then, that by and large, until the Government is willing to involve
itself here, little will change among housing professionals until the cost of doing so is lower than inaction. It is unclear whether this time has arrived yet, or not – but the clock is
ticking, and all the while, older residents will continue to suffer in unfit, unsafe homes.
For the full version of this whitepaper, please visit:
www.housingmmonline.co.uk/white-papers
SURVEY SPONSORS
We are grateful to our survey sponsors for their participation in this white paper research report:
“Do you think the UK housing stock as a whole is prepared for the ageing population?”
Alertacall Electrical Safety First Miele Professional Mitsubishi Electric Triton Showers
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