This Mental Health Network briefing, produced in association with the National Housing Federation, outlines a number of routes that mental health providers and housing associations may wish to explore together to improve quality and reduce costs.
A settled home is vital for good mental health. People with mental health problems are far less likely to be homeowners and far more likely to live in unstable environments.
Support with housing can improve the health of individuals and help reduce overall demand for health and social care services. Ensuring service users have a suitable and settled place to live can aid recovery from mental health problems.
Key points from the report include:
- Good housing is critical for good mental health
- No health without mental health (the cross-government mental health outcomes strategy) stresses the importance of housing for mental health
- Without a settled place to live, recovery can be significantly impeded
- Financial pressure increases the need to innovate and deliver services in more cost effective ways
- Addressing housing need within the care pathway can contribute to meeting the QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) challenge
- By working in partnership, mental health providers and housing associations can deliver better outcomes for service users
Housing and mental health (PDF). NHS Confederation Mental Heath Network, 6 Dec 2011.
Good housing for people with mental health helps a lot i read a while back that people with mental health issues are far more likely to be on the streets. I can see why as well especialy in the uk because there is not enuff funding for support. I will take a quote millions was going to be spent on mental health a while back guess what it doesn’t come to the end user i know this well its a good spin mind i dont have support i live in supported accommodation but no support myself i think it would be easer living on the streets no hassle.
I live in Denmark and I myself suffer from anxiety, I (Think) that I have the greatest knowledge that anyone can get, said with a twinkle in the eye, this is because when I have no surplus I google and search the internet for mental illness , we know that in certain situations you can recover or get better, we know that “Housing First” is better than living on the streets, but we forget to ask the question whether it is better to live on the streets than to live somewhere a place where one is bullied, “monitored” with bad excuses, that employees in public housing go behind the back of citizen with mental diagnoses to caseworker, that there is a lack of knowledge on knowledge with mental diagnoses among employees in the social field and housing. For me, it is not the “system” that has helped, it is my own what is good for me and what is bad for me, let me tell you about an episode, I won a year a stay in a cottage, took the cheapest and got 14 days out of it, here I experienced that since I had control of 95% this means that I could sleep when needed, I had fewer situations from the outside that came, I had more knowledge about which socket was for which lamp and light, in relation to where I live, also there was less noise, the garden was also a “buffer zone” this meant I did not have the noise right next to, under me or anything, when a man came and hit the lawn, I thought so was then close? it turned out to be the lawn of the cottage we had rented, but instead of getting anxious, it turned into one that is perfectly fine. I have read that stress affects anxiety and vice versa, but one forgets to think about the living environment, should I answer today where I would like to live, should it be in an owner-occupied home with space for everything, exercise and creativity, garden therapy in the garden, for me it is not decidedly Therapy, but planting strawberries, tomatoes is a pleasure, and makes me happy and gives profit, to draw and paint, make bracelets, and cards for for example Christmas and birthday make me happy, to have a home there is properly furnished and not staying with moving boxes is a good feeling. I feel that as a citizen with a mental diagnosis you are equal to being stupid too, but we are not, my biggest problem is probably that I am ahead, that I think long-term, and have a different mindset, My wish would be that there was someone who would help to try to buy a handful of homes, so that these homes were not only cheap but also wheelchair friendly, so that the home is for all a citizen’s social circle, and that the citizen had the right to the home was cheap in rent, but also the opportunity to be able to decide for themselves when renovations were planned, as this also has a big impact.
thanks for the word
p.s .: I am one of the citizens in Denmark who falls between 3 chairs, health – Housing – social.
I am too healthy to get help in the social area for other housing, I can receive symptom treatment in the health area but no help for a permanent solution, and I am not included for help in the housing area, as I am too healthy for housing, crooked homes / special homes for the socially disadvantaged, so thus I am out of the Danish system and receive no help.