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Continuing HAPPI Awareness week, this new Housing LIN guest blog by Lois Beech, Senior Research Officer at the Housing LIN, shares what a ‘contemporary’ sheltered housing offer should look like.

To coincide with #HAPPIweek, we share a new Housing LIN guest blog by Dr Cate Pemble, Impact Research Fellow on the Designing Homes for Healthy Cognitive Ageing project at the University of Stirling, who shares her thoughts on who should be thinking about designing, and adapting, for older age and what this looks like.

This year, HAPPI Awareness Week takes place from Monday,12 December to Friday, 16th December 2022. Throughout the week we will share a selection of daily news items, guest blogs and announcements celebrating different aspects of the 'care ready' HAPPI design principles.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources, and events including this week's HAPPI Hour with tide on their new housing and dementia booklet, a new blog by our Housing LIN Cymru Steering Group and TAPPI update following the publication of the House of Lords Select Committee on Adult Social Care report.

Follow our twitter campaign this month as we lend support for a Task Force that can provide sector leadership and make bold recommendations to improve the housing choices of people in later life.

We caught up with Housing LIN Cymru Steering Group to capture their thoughts on the Housing LIN’s presence in Wales and the benefits associated with being a part of the network. 

Following a 10 month Inquiry, the House of Lord Select Committee published its report today 'A "gloriously ordinary life’’: spotlight on adult social care’.

A new report published by Pride of Place Living reveals the design priorities of LGBTQ+ people in Leeds who are interested in living in a multi-generational life-long and inclusive LGBTQ+ affirmative housing community. 

Lord Crisp's Healthy Homes Bill completed the Committee Stage in the House of Lords on Monday, getting closer to becoming law. The Housing LIN is proud to support the TCPA's campaign. 

Four new audio podcasts from the award-winning, Later Life Audio and Radio Co-operative (LLARC) run by older people feature conversations we all need to have about housing as we get older. Hosted by housing consultant and LLARC member Moyra Riseborough, the conversations focus on issues that older people and their families sought help with from The Elderly Accommodation Counsel.