Welcome to this week’s HLINks, our weekly round-up of latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and a tour of other news on housing, technology, care and more...
Calling all senior leads in organisations supporting technology to the adult social care sector! Help NHSX to better understand the use of care technology within adult social care. Findings will inform future policy and support for the sector.
Available now! A newHousing LIN case study describes a collaborative project undertaken by Octavia and St Christopher’s Hospice to identify how both staff and residents in several extra care housing schemes might be empowered to improve the experience of end-of-life care for everyone.
Registrations are open. Sign up to our popular programme of HAPPI Hour sessions this month. These free online events take place every Thursday afternoon at 4pm. Get your order in now!
This NEW Housing LIN guest blog written by Roland Karthaus from Matter Architecture’s asks if and how we should rely less on mandates and more on encouraging care in the way housing is developed.
Welcome to this week’s HLINks, our weekly update in which we feature what’s hot off the Housing LIN’s press and also round-up other sector news, views and essential resources. Get HLINked In!
In his new guest blog for the Housing LIN, ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s Dr Michael Roberts considers what we can do to bring about a much-needed sense of renewal, after Covid-19 forced us to reflect on our sense of “belonging”.
The International Longevity Centre UK launched a new report, titled ‘Making the extra years count – Inequalities in disability and dependency with increasing longevity. Drawing on research led by Newcastle University and funded by The Dunhill Medical Trust, the report finds that inequalities in disability and dependency have been rising with increasing longevity.
Do you know someone over 70 and helping a partner living with dementia at home? Do they use a day centre and/or have outside support before the COVID-19 pandemic began? Yes? Then please tell the research team about their experiences during the pandemic in a telephone interview.