Creating better living choices for later life

The Retirement Housing Group is proud to be the leading voice for retirement housing in the UK. We’re here to celebrate the many benefits of retirement living, encourage more choice, quality and affordability, and support the highest standards across the sector – helping people enjoy happier, healthier later living.

Championing choice and raising standards in later living

The Retirement Housing Group is the only national body representing all types of retirement housing in the UK. Our members include the largest and most experienced providers of retirement housing with care and support services. Since 1995, we’ve been committed to improving the supply and quality of retirement housing and engaging central and local government to overcome barriers to development.

“Increasing independence in older people should be top of the agenda and changing people’s environment, including their housing arrangements, can help achieve this goal.”

Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, 2023 Annual Report

“I have heard people say that they did not know what housing options were available to them in later life and few are aware of the health benefits. By enhancing the quality and quantity of older people’s housing/later life housing and offering more choice, not only can we improve the lives of senior citizens, but we can also save money for the NHS by avoiding unnecessary hospital admission from slips, trips and falls.”

Professor Julienne Meyer CBE, Chair of Older People’s Housing Taskforce, Nov 2024

The year the Retirement Housing Group was founded and we started to make a difference.

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The annual saving in health and social care costs delivered by a typical retirement housing community of 40 apartments.

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The predicted number of over-80s living in the UK by 2032 – up from 3.2 million today and set to rise to 10 million by the end of the century.

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Of people aged 65 or over in the UK would like to downsize. This currently equates to around 3 million people.

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A new retirement housing community helps people of all ages move up the housing ladder by freeing up family-sized homes, opening new housing chains and helping first time buyers take their first step on the property ladder.

“I agree that the need to provide sufficient housing to meet older people’s specific needs is critical. We must ensure that the housing market is moving with demographic change.”

Matthew Pennycook – UK Housing Minister

“Central and local government, housing associations and builders need urgently to plan how to ensure that the housing needs of the older population are better addressed ”

House of Lords Report on UK’s Ageing Preparedness

“There should be increased investment in retirement housing and further reforms to the planning system to make new developments easier to build and affordable to more older people.”

Age UK

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