The University of Stirling have got the green light from the UK Research & Innovation healthy ageing challenge to research into designing homes for healthy cognitive Ageing: Co-Production for impact and scale. The Housing LIN is delighted to be one of the non-academic partners to create future-proof housing to meet the needs of the world’s ageing population.
We are working with Learning Disability England to produce 2 guides on choosing and finding where to live. We are looking for examples of information or ways of working that people think are good.
We look forward to sharing with you the exciting things we have planned for 2021 to coincide with the Housing LIN’s 10th anniversary independent of government. In the meantime, looking back at 2020, here are some headline facts and figures.
This new guest blog considers how people are beginning to think further ahead and reassess their housing priorities and future-proof their options for later life.
Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly update, week ending 5 March 2021 in which we feature the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.
This blog gives an overview of Anchor Hanover's partnership with the charity Re-engage and how this enabled them to reengineer their BeSupportive volunteering programme to provide a companionship call programme to address the loneliness and isolation felt by residents during the pandemic.
This report by Octavia Housing identifies the effectiveness of outreach, befriending and activity engagement services in reducing the the experience of loneliness and isolation amongst older residents.
Further to last month’s launch of the new APPG inquiry report on housing and dementia, this blog emphasises the interdependency between Housing, Social Care and the NHS in supporting people with dementia and how getting this right prevents the need for higher cost services.
Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly update, week ending 26 February 2021 in which we feature the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.