Getting support to adapt your home or live where you choose

Appropriate housing options

Housing adaptations  (e.g. wet floor shower room, extensions)

Specialist assessment and equipment (e.g. handrails, temperature sensing equipment, remote door openers)

Advice about local authority grants

Advice about falls prevention

Advice about planning for the future (e.g. needing a carer to stay overnight, adapting a house for a wheelchair)

Being part of the community and having access to outside spaces

Advice about mortgages and housing benefit or Council Tax

Financial planning

HD Specialists

Housing Occupational Therapists

Homeless Services (e.g. Dumfries & Galloway Council , Shelter , Crisis , Bethany Christian Trust , Emmaus , Centrepoint , Salvation Army)

Telehealth/Telecare

Assistive Technology

Dumfries & Galloway Council Housing Advice & Support Service

Seating, postural control & wheelchair services

Scottish Huntington’s Association Financial Wellbeing Service

Community Alarm Service

HD Specialists to consider housing needs and refer client to relevant services for formal assessment of housing needs and options.

There should be a nominated Housing Officer – or local area coordination group – in each area with whom the HD Specialists can liaise to highlight clients with complex needs or who are facing difficulties resolving their housing problems.

Refer to local Scottish Huntington’s Association service standards

People living with HD and their families feel well informed about and empowered to access available housing options, are able to live independently for longer and with a good quality of life.