In seeking to tackle fuel poverty the bulk of Scottish Government investment has been directed through two grant schemes offering energy efficiency measures – the Warm Deal grant and the Central Heating Programme. However only a low percentage of recipients of these grants were actually in fuel...Read more
Concerns over the welfare of older people in winter have led to interventions and advice campaigns meant to improve their ability to keep warm, but older people themselves are not always willing to follow these recommendations. In this paper we draw on an in-depth study that followed twenty one...Read more
Energy poverty is the inability of households to afford adequate energy services in the home, which can have several impacts on health and well-being. Without an understanding of energy poverty, Danish energy policy might put vulnerable households at a disadvantage. The scope of the research was...Read more
The research presented in this report is the culmination of 18 months of work which has been funded by The Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI). The research is concerned with older people and how they cope with cold weather, and whether they are able to keep...Read more
The project aims to investigate the relationship between the thermal behaviour of older people, the thermal gradients within the home and outside winter cold. Its objectives are (1) to examine the extent to which the activities of daily living of older people is related to indoor and outdoor...Read more
Fuel poverty is estimated to affect millions of people in the UK, and older people are especially vulnerable. Most research into fuel poverty has drawn upon quantitative paradigms. The aim of this study, therefore, was to investigate the perceptions and experiences of older women in relation to...Read more
This qualitative study used in-depth individual interviews with older people (n=50) and health and social care staff,(n=25), alongside six focus groups with 43 participants and a consultation event. Temperatures were measured in the homes of the older people interviewed. The data indicated a...Read more
This paper examines a representative sample (N=421) of older people (aged 70+) living in rural North Wales with regard to relationships between fuel poverty, feeling cold in one's home and a range of self-reported housing and home energy efficiency items. In the Welsh context, the combination of...Read more
Recent research and political debate have demonstrated that there is concern regarding the eligibility criteria for winter fuel payments and the lack of restrictions on how the money can be spent by recipients. The warm for life pilot project was developed by Norwich City Council and National...Read more
This study found that older people who were in fuel poverty or who did not live in a home they owned had significantly worse respiratory health as measured by peak expiratory flow rates. After accounting for covariates, these factors had no effect on any other measures of respiratory health....Read more
