In the UK many elderly people live on a low income compared to the rest of the population. Struggling to pay their heating bills and often living in cold damp environments, the conditions are believed to contribute to the approximate 27,000 excess winter deaths each year.
Lord Krebs noted in the recently published UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017(1) that heat related mortality could increase by two-thirds by the 2020s. These are just two of the issues to concern elderly people trapped in poor accommodation, what else can Passivhaus design do for the elderly?