Healthy Age Friendly Homes

Healthy-Age-Friendly-Homes-Programme

This Programme aims to support and enable people to live longer healthier lives in their own home, while being and feeling part of their community. By ensuring they are in a suitable living environment for accessibility, size, safety, and environment, and warmth, the programme will support older people to live in their own home with dignity and independence.

What are the benefits to you?

  • Healthy Age Friendly Homes Coordinator will carry out a needs assessment to establish what supports are required to enable you to continue living independently in your own home for longer.
  • A person-centred support plan will be developed post assessment
  • If you feel your home is no longer suitable and you would like to move to a more appropriate home, the Healthy Age Friendly Homes Coordinator can provide you with information on right sizing within your community/county/city. 
  • They can provide information on adapting your existing home and the relevant grants available to support you to make those changes, with a focus on universal design and energy efficiency,
  • They can provide you with access to a range of housing, health and social care supports to help you decide on what you need to enable you to live the life you want to the best of your ability within your community.

For more information, please contact:

Healthy Age Friendly Homes Local Coordinator - Longford
Mary Carey
Email: info@agefriendlyireland.ie /  mary.carey@meathcoco.ie
Mobile: 087-9807487