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Welcome to TAPPI Cast, our weekly update on the 'Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation' (TAPPI) project which aims to improve the way technology is used in housing and care for older people.

Are you interested in becoming a Community co-researcher? The Open University’s 'Amar bari, amar jibon’ (My home, my life) research project is seeking to recruit six community co-researchers from the Bangladeshi community to each engage with and interview the Bangladeshi ‘probin’ (older men and women)  and a small number of  families  living in East London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham, Redbridge and Hackney about their home, housing and neighbourhood related concerns and aspirations.  

To celebrate Social Prescribing Day (9th March 2023) - an annual celebration of social prescribing, demonstrating the amazing impact it can have on people’s health and wellbeing - we draw attention to a recent report, titled Innovations In Social Prescribing: the role of housing.

The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford are looking for housing organisations or money advice/financial support services to collaborate in a new study called Smoking cessation Advice for financially Vulnerable Individuals accessiNG financial Support (SAVINGS). 

Yesterday saw the launch of the findings from the Dementia in Extra Care Housing (DemECH) research project at the House of Lords.

We're so pleased to share that the recent Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas exceeded all our expectations and broke our previous records!

Everon UK publish a new blog highlighting the responsibility of all TEC providers to ensure their customers can transition safely from analogue to digital in a timely fashion.

This Housing LIN Case Study (166), written by Adam Fitzgerald, Programme Manager at Building Better Lives in Housing at Dorset Council, describes Red Oak Court, a housing scheme for people with a learning disability and mental health problems which is entirely constructed from factory-built modular units that can be relocated multiple times over their life.

RIBA has announced the shortlisted architects’ practices for this year’s regional awards. Nearly 100 completed developments have been highlight of which 2 are purpose-built for older people, including extra care housing, and another incorporates multi-generational living.

Launched today, find out more about the new Future of London’s Health and Housing Impact Network.