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Presentation Kit

This Healthy Homes, Healthier Lives Presentation Kit has been designed for use in short, informal awareness raising/briefing sessions with partner organisations, colleagues, volunteers and community-based agencies.

The aims of the Presentation Kit are to increase knowledge of:

  • the effects of poor housing on people's health
  • the actions householders can take to improve their housing conditions
  • who can help to improve people's housing conditions and local agencies that are there to help

It is the ideal medium for raising awareness about local projects and initiatives that link housing to poor health.

The Presentation Kit contains a Power Point presentation, quiz, a case study exercise and information pages that cover the following topics:

  • home repairs and improvements
  • adaptations and living independently
  • home safety and accident prevention particularly with regard to falls
  • energy efficiency
  • home security
  • move on: alternative housing options for older people
  • starter kit for local directory of resources

The Presentation Kit is in three sections:

1. Getting Started
2. The Course
3. Sample Handouts

Click on Getting Started for guidance notes that highlight many of the points that you should consider as you plan to use the Presentation Kit.

Click on The Presentation for the full Powerpoint presentation, presenter's notes, quiz, materials for the case study exercise and suggested answers. The Powerpoint presentation can be shortened or adapted to reflect your local situation, and we suggest that you use your own case studies and photographs wherever possible.

Click on Sample Handouts for a copy of our publication The Effects of Poor Housing on Health, a Useful Contacts List and suggestions for other leaflets to include in your delegates packs.

Click on In Good Repair for a copy of this publication, which is referred to in the presentation as a source of reliable information for householders whose homes need maintenance or adaptation.

Supported by:
The Rayne Foundation The Change Agent Team Housing LIN.