The government should establish a specialist unit to drive the delivery of age-friendly homes, an independent taskforce has recommended.

The Older Person’s Housing Taskforce, set up by the previous government to look at tackling barriers to delivering later living homes, has today published its recommendations.

It calls on the government to champion and deliver a “National Housing Strategy for an Ageing Population, which should include consideration of the role of care homes”.  It said ministers should establish “a joint unit between MHCLG and DHSC to create a plan of action.”