Share and Care Homeshare is featured regularly in the media including national television, radio, and newspapers.
Our stories are also shared across consumer titles, and the trade media including health and social care, local authority, and housing.
May 2025
Share and Care: the benefits of homesharing
Caroline Cooke describes the personal experience that led her to launch the social enterprise Share and Care, and the benefits and rewards it can bring to all involved.
When Caroline Cooke’s father was diagnosed with vascular dementia, she experienced first-hand the challenges that her parents faced and saw there was a gap in provision. This was the motive behind the creation of a homeshare initiative.
February 2025
What’s driving the interest in homeshare arrangements?
Our latest homeshare report gives an insight into the homeshare sector: What is driving an increase in arrangements, and who is benefiting from Homeshare and how.
July 2024
Share and Care Homeshare CIC, the largest homeshare organisation in the UK, has released its 2024 report.
July 2024
New report finds dementia and limited mobility are driving in homeshare arrangements.
Share and Care Homeshare, the largest homeshare organisation in the UK, has released its 2024 report providing an invaluable insight into how homeshare supports older people and the factors that are driving an increase in arrangements.
July 2024
Report: Dementia and limited mobility are driving factors in homeshare arrangements
Community Interest Company (CIC),Share and Care Homeshare ‘s 2024 report provides an invaluable insight into how homesharesupports older people and the factors that are driving an increase in arrangements.
June 2024
How homeshare transforms the lives of people with dementia and poor mobility
Pressure is mounting to tackle at home care needs for those who need it most. Caroline Cooke, director of community interest at Share and Care Homeshare, explains providing more homeshare for patients could be the key for success.
May 2024
Homeshare:supporting people living with dementia
For people living with dementia, homeshare arrangements are a popular choice that provide positive experiences, and are particularly beneficial during the early stages, before crisis point is reached.
December 2023
Perspectives Homeshare and dementia: the invaluable matches. The homeshare movement has changed the way that people live for the better. As a circle of support, homeshare matches younger people who need an affordable place to live, (the average age of a Sharer is 39) with older people( average age of a householder is 84)
November 2023
Christine and Margaret’s story: Intergenerational homeshare for over a year. In this interview, Christine discusses the benefits of living with Margaret and what they have learned from one another.
October 2023
The NHS Networks blog looks at the opportunities of homeshares. Homeshare matches older people who need some help to live independently in their own home with younger people who provide a low level of practical support in exchange for accommodation.
July 2023
A 28-year-old moved in with an 83-year-old as part of a ‘homeshare.’ It’s been a win-win for both.
- Christine Rahman is a 28-year-old woman who signed up to be part of a Homeshare in London.
- She rents a room in Margaret Smith’s home for about £180 a month.
- In return, she helps Smith — who is 83 — with daily tasks around the house.
May 2023
Celebrating the reciprocal benefits of home sharing
Caroline Cooke, director at CIC Share and Care Homeshare, describes the valuable contributions that both younger and older people bring to intergenerational living arrangements…and the reciprocal benefits.
May 2023
Housing
Celebrating the reciprocal benefits of home sharing. Intergenerationl living, in the form of homeshare, has been around for more than 40 years in this country.
January 2023
Fab Talks with Share and Care Homeshare
Fab Talk with Amanda Clarke from Share and Care Homeshare; talking about tackling loneliness.
November 2022
UK Rental market Crisis leaves Brits Paying for Rooms With Household Work
Johanna Lundstrom, 57, can’t afford to rent in London. When she moved to the capital for her music career in 202, she relies that she did not have the roughly £1,000 or so a month needed to rent a room and pay utility bills.
August 2022
Interview with a social prescriber: “Homeshare should be more embedded in social care- it’s an excellent initiative.”
For social prescribing homeshare provision is a sustainable option which sits within health and social care and enables social prescribers to offer tailored support to enrich the lives of people across the generations and across local communities.
December 2021
Caroline Cooke, Director at social enterprise Share and Care Homeshare explains why collaboration between social care & homeshare can support better outcomes for older people.
November 2021
How homecare and homeshare services are working together to improve outcomes.
Since its beginnings almost 40 years ago, homeshare is now regarded as a mainstream social care solution, and is an option that can run effectively alongside homecare.
October 2021
People with dementia are benefiting from sharing their home in return for support and friendship. Gareth Bracken reports on the benefits of homeshare.
Autumn 2021
Retaining independence with homeshare model.
This model opens up an alternative choice, helping older people remain independent for longer. How can you support your older patients and their loved ones in exploring this pathway?
September 2021
How homesharing can give people with dementia support and friendship
Share and Care Homeshare enables people to live in their own homes for longer by matching them with ‘sharers’ who offer help and companionship.
September 2021
The Homeshare model: a preventative approach to help older people remain independent for longer
The Homeshare model emerged in this country more than 40 years ago and has grown significantly. Today, it it is well-established as a familiar and positive choice for supported living within local communities, especially fro older people, yet its impact on the health and social care sector is perhaps not as widely recognised.
July 2021
Could Homesharing Provide Part of the Solution to the Social Care Crisis?
Considering the current crisis in social care. CareKnowledge’s Ed Brown spoke to Share and care Homeshare about how homesharing could be a cost-effective option in community care that allows older people and people with mental health conditions receive daily support in their own homes.
July 2021
Homeshare: a successful alternative model of support
Homeshare arrangements have grown in popularity as a result of the pandemic. Caroline Cooke gives an insight into this model of support for keeping people independent at home for longer.
June 2021
A shift in alternative housing options for older people
Why we should be looking at alternative housing options for older people.
Homeshare arrangements not only support wellbeing, relieve pressure on overstretched health services they support mental health and isolation. Amanda Clarke makes a compelling case for why we need more Homeshare and particularly for older people who were severely impacted by the pandemic in England.
May 2021
Homeshare: an alternative for independent living
Adults in later life who require care and support are often signposted to traditional models of care such as a move to residential accommodation. Yet for many this is an unwanted and unnecessary choice. Evidence shows that most people wish to remain in their own homes as they age.
April 2021
The Homeshare Model: simultaneously impacting housing and social care
The urgency of embedding prevention and wellbeing into social care for older people and the invaluable role of community has been emphasised repeatedly throughout the pandemic. Now, with the country only now starting to emerge from its third lockdown, alternative, affordable options must be explored to help drive recovery from the pandemic.
April 2021
Older people need living arrangements that enable them to thrive writes Caroline Cooke, director at social enterprise Share and Care Homeshare.
January 2021
Why homeshare is championed as a mainstream part of the solution in social care.
The social care sector is increasingly using homeshare as a viable, flexible and preventative option to help overcome a number issues currently faced, and also meet its strategic aims of enabling older people to remain independent in their own homes for longer.
February 2021
In good company: the need for Homeshare and intergenerational living has never been greater
The pandemic has shown how loneliness and isolation affects everyone, with many people living alone feeling more cur-off than ever.
December 2020
Homeshare is set to play a much greater role in helping the NHS deliver improved outcomes for older people.
A sustainable model for the NHS, homeshare has credentials dating back almost 40 years.
November 2020
Caroline Cooke, director at social enterprise Share and Care Homeshare
Similar to social prescribing, homeshare fits across the wider health and social care banner, and akin to social prescribing, homeshare also emerged in the UK back in the 1980s.
