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The DHSC recently announced that elderly and vulnerable people are to receive tailored support at home each money as part of a new NHSE plan to curb unnecessary trips to hospitals, help at-risk patients receive faster treatment, and improve ambulance response times. 

Older people in Wales are facing a housing crisis. Care & Repair Cymru’s new report looks at the challenges, causes and solutions to a threat targeting our oldest homeowners.

New Housing LIN guest blog, Tony Watts OBE, Director at EngAgeNet, shares what issues could be alleviated with a ready supply of suitable housing for older people.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources, and events including a SW ADASS and Housing LIN Consultancy Housing and Care: Good Practice guide, guest blog by Mark Slater, Design Director at West Waddy Archadia, and full TAPPI cast update!

The second Steering Board meeting of the Dunhill Medical Trust-funded TAPPI Phase 2 took place virtually yesterday, bringing together a range of UK and international experts to provide oversight to the next phase of this exciting technology-enabled housing and care project.

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.

The TEC Action Alliance wants to understand how you use technology in your everyday life. This in turn will help the group understand how technology can best support people in the social care sector. This survey is for you if you are a person who draws on care services or a family caregiver or frontline staff member. 

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Mark Slater, Design Director at West Waddy Archadia, draws attention to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities' consultation on changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

In a report published today (‘Care and Support Reimagined: a National Care Covenant for England’), the Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care has set out three actions to realise a new vision for care and support: rethinking attitudes to care and support; rebalancing roles and responsibilities; and redesigning the social care system.

The SW ADASS and Housing LIN Consultancy guide supports councils, with their local partners, to plan for and deliver the range of housing and care options needed by older people and working age adults with care/support needs.