Housing LIN South West Annual Conference - Bristol

'CollaborAGE in the South West: Building healthy partnerships to meet the housing aspirations of our ageing population'

This meeting will be held from 09:30 to 16:15 at:

St Monica's Trust
Cote Lane Retirement Village
Cote Lane
Westbury-on-Trym
BS9 3UN

9.30 Tea Coffee on arrival

10.00 Conference begins - Chaired by Jeremy Porteus, Director, Housing LIN

10.15 Keynote speakers

• Aspirational housing matters: listening to older people - David Williams, CEO, St Monica Trust
• Housing for older people: opportunities post Brexit - Philip Schmidt, Director, JLL
• Future proofing our homes and neighbourhoods: time to get back to basics - Claire Turner, Interim Director of Evidence, Centre for Ageing Better

11.30 Break & refreshments

12.00 Workshops

1. Designing for Dementia: lessons from practice - Angela Morrison, Quattro
2. Assistive Technology - Don't DO it, Help it happen! - Jeremy Moyse, Commissioning Projects Manager, Adult Social Care, Swindon Borough Council'
3. The "spirit of living" in Woodchester Valley Village: reflections on life in Britain's first mutually owned retirement village' - Professor Peter Wilson, founding Chair of Woodchester Valley Freehold Ltd., and Jon Stevens, University of Birmingham
4. Step-down accommodation and support - Harriet Bosnell, Director of Health, Care & Support, CURO
5. Knowing your care market - Tom Hartley and Tom Harrison, Carterwood

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Workshops

1. Sustainable Extra Care Housing Design, Passivhaus, Exeter - Mark Barry and Kirk Rushby , Architype architects
2. How assistive technology can improve your (night) care, Mathijs de Bruin, CLB, Holland
3. Strengths based approaches and the right to take risks - Lisa Smith and Lindsey Pike, RiPfA
4. Extra Care Housing(ECHO): Care staff and commissioner perspectives - Ailsa Cameron & Randall Smith, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol and Dr Robin Darton, PSSRU, University of Kent

15.00 Keynote speaker

• Building housing and ageing alliances across the South West - Sue Adams, CEO, Care & Repair England and Chair of the Housing & Ageing Alliance

15.30 Panel Debate - Claire Turner, David Williams, Phil Schmidt, Sue Adams

16.15 Closing comments - Jeremy Porteus, Director, Housing LIN

Priority is given to delegates within the South West Region

Important notice: this event provided free of charge to those registered in advance to attend and who subsequently attend. However, we reserve the right to charge those who register and subsequently fail to attend. This is due to the Housing LIN's incurring irrecoverable costs based on numbers of those registered in advance to attend. Non-attenders will be invoiced and pursued for payment. By registering you unreservedly accept these terms and conditions. The cost of this event is £150 plus VAT per head