A growing aging population means greater demand for residential care services. Is the notion of an environmentally sustainable care home realistic? What is the current environmental impact of the residential care sector? Can reducing environmental impact have cost, health and wellbeing co-benefits?

These questions are explored in a recent study, Sustainable Care Homes, carried out by NEP Energy Services in 2012, a charity-owned social enterprise funded by NHS East Midlands Regional Innovation Fund.

Jerome Baddley, Sustainability Services Manager at the Nottingham Energy Partnership, describes the findings of research into sustainable care homes, considering whether environmentally sustainable care services are possible and even offer cost, health and wellbeing co-benefits.

Read Mr Baddley’s full story in the UK Government’s Sustainable Development news.