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There is the basic question of accommodation, including people’s own homes, sheltered housing, or – if things get rough – nursing homes and care homes, much feared by many older people and often rightly so. Nobody wants to give up their home and go into a ‘home’. Yet questions about why we are still so bad at providing care at home, particularly – and maybe understandably – for older people with Alzheimer’s disease, still need answering.

Fewer than one in twenty people want to spend their final days in a nursing home, yet one in five deaths takes place in those very places. We ought to be asking ourselves whether this is fair or right. Equally, there are questions around fitting homes for people who do become more frail and more disabled: why are architects and designers not putting real energy into designing for age? Why do older people seeking co-housing or mutual solutions find it so hard to make them happen, when they are commonplace in the USA and continental Europe?