A successful final summit was held at Grovetown Blenheim on 29 September 2014. The programme featured:

• Two international housing experts on resilience, housing and older people:
  • Dr Catherine Bridge – Director of the Home Modification Information Clearing House Project and Associate Professor, Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
  • Dr Rob Wiener – Executive director, California Coalition for Rural Housing and lecturer in housing policy at the University of California, Davis.
• Presentations on the Seddon earthquake and older people’s experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes:
  • Russell Montgomery, Blenheim, involved with civil defence and neighbourhood support
  • Dr Sue Carswell, Christchurch, an independent researcher who has conducted research on the aged care sector response to the Canterbury earthquakes.
• Release of the tools developed in the programme:
  • Homes and Heavy Weather Resilience Tool
  • Materials for Resilient Houses Tool
  • Sites for Resilient Homes Tool
  • Flood Experience Tool
  • Research-based Guidelines: Learning from Older People’s Flood Experiences

You can access these tools through the links on the home page.