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As we approach the festive season and the New Year, we reflect on our top highlights and revisit some of the most popular resources from 2024, celebrating the accomplishments, lessons learned, and memorable moments that have defined the year. We also look ahead with excitement and anticipation, eager to embrace the opportunities and challenges that the coming year will bring!

This High Impact Change Model (HICM) is focused on the care of people with a suspected/ undiagnosed or diagnosed dementia, and those where delirium is superimposed on dementia. It sets out an individual’s journey in eight ‘areas’ with respective changes that have been determined as ‘high impact’ for their contribution to timely and effective hospital discharge. 

In this blog, Tamsyn Pegler, Volunteer Manager at Coastline Housing, shares Christopher's journey of overcoming loneliness and improving his mental and physical wellbeing through the support of Miners Court Day Centre.

Members from all four cohorts of the Housing LIN’s Future Leaders came together yesterday to celebrate their participation in our unique programme at an event hosted at this year’s HAPPI award-winning Appleby Blue in Bermondsey.

This week's HLINks, the last before the festive season, features our influential report with Ipsos on the housing preferences of older people, our final HAPPI Hour webinar of the year on cohousing, our HAPPI Week celebrations and related publications, a report by Professor Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, another by Age UK on loneliness and much more! 

For a fifth year running, we are excited to celebrate HAPPI Awareness Week, an opportunity to raise awareness around the Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (HAPPI) principles and the virtues of designing care-ready accommodation and age-friendly housing services.

Professor Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer for England, has published his annual state of the nation report. This year he has put the spotlight on what can be done to improve health in cities.

In a major boost for communities across the country, the government has today confirmed changes to planning rules, including turbocharging growth with new, mandatory targets for councils to ramp up housebuilding across the country.

Building on the Older People’s Housing Taskforce report and in anticipation of the upcoming government Housing Strategy, which is expected to focus on measures that facilitate the goal of constructing 1.5 million new homes over the next five years, we asked Housing LIN Members to share their perspectives on what should be included in the Strategy to address the housing needs and aspirations of an ageing population.

Published to coincide with HAPPI Awareness Week 2024, this blog written by Madeleine Hebert, Senior Housing Specialist at Happy Cities, highlights the importance of social connections in addressing societal challenges such as housing affordability, extreme weather, and ageing populations.