West Yorkshire Housing Partnership is urging everyone to think about rightsizing sooner rather than later by launching a new area wide campaign. Funded by West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, WDH and Together Housing Group, your home, your choice, has been developed to empower older people to find the right home for them.

The campaign aims to give people the confidence and motivation to rightsize and make informed choices. Rightsizing allows people to discuss access to housing choices which are suitable for their circumstances and needs in later life, and which are proactively chosen to improve quality of life. This is in contrast to the term ‘crisis move', which is usually a forced move in response to bigger changes in health or financial circumstances.

Your home, your choice builds on people’s insight around healthy housing options.

The campaign aims to ensure that:

1. older adults are supported to better understand the range of accommodation options
2. people can assess whether the options available will improve their overall quality of life
3. informed choice is promoted in communications
4. the potential benefits of local rightsizing options are better understood

Read more on the West Yorkshire Health and Partnership website and use the communications toolkit to share the message.