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We are delighted to report that the Housing LIN has become a signatory to the Design Commission for Wales' Placemaking Wales Charter . With our commitment to the HAPPI design principles, we firmly support the Charter's 6 core components and the inclusive approach to placemaking, including creating age-friendly homes and communities.

In other news, 11 HAPPI-inspires projects have been shortlisted for this year's Housing Design Awards. The submissions include a selection of extra care housing, retirement villages, almshouse provision and cohousing. The Housing LIN is proud to be a sponsors of these awards and the quality of the shortlisted schemes demonstrate how HAPPI has become a mainstay of these awards with winners to be announced in September.

And following the announcement of the TAPPI2 coproduction lead last month, with permission for Inside Housing, we release a blog by Coproduction Works' Jolie Goodman in which she looks at how social landlords can go about making consumer regulation changes.

What else caught my interest?

• Inside Housing article: Right sizing could be the answer to the housing crisis
• Reader's Digest: How the rise of cohousing is enriching seniors' lives
• ADASS report: ADASS spring budget survey 2022 highlights challenges ahead for adult social care
• Government policy document: Better Care Fund policy framework: 2022 to 2023
• County Councils Network report: England’s counties see elderly population ‘boom’ over the last decade, with over 1 million more over 65s living in those areas
• Design Museum exhibition opens: The Future of Ageing

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and this week’s sector news from the Housing LIN

On Thursday, we were delighted to publish our newest Inspirational Achievement feature in partnership with Places for People Living Plus, Jubilee Place, an innovative modular living project. It includes a case study from the perspective of Richard Lynch, Wellbeing Coordinator on wellbeing and social prescribing. Get inspired here! 

And following the recent roundtable discussion hosted by Lovell Later Living and Motionspot, supported by the Housing LIN, to coincide with the CIH annual conference and exhibition in Manchester last month, we are pleased to publish a guest blog by one of the attendees, Norfolk County Council's Jessamy Hayes, in which she reflects on the findings from a series of focus groups held with Norfolk residents in early 2020 that revealed the complexity associated with promoting a new housing scheme.

We also held a successful HAPPI Hour on downsizing and rightplacing, showcasing two influential research projects. Sticking with Manchester, the first is the work of the School of Architecture on their research into understanding the meaning of place and how this affects their housing choices.The second, the research undertaken by the Universities of Cambridge and Sheffield on older social housing residents' aspirations in LB Hackney following the regeneration of their estate. The feedback were great and you can now (re)watch the session, download the slides and view the chat on this event’s webpage.

What else caught my interest?

• Kellogg University, Oxford, Commission report: What creates healthy cities?
• UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge report: Our Story So Far - Helping people to remain active, productive, independent and socially connected for longer
• NHS England guidance: Guidance on working in partnership with people and communities
• New Local report: A Community-Powered NHS
• Digital Social Care news: Digitising social care fund
• Appello guide: Guide: How to Plan and Procure the Right Digital Solution

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Welcome back to #Jeremytalks. What a week it has been on the policy and political front!

First a bit of normality! This week was #CoProWeek and the Housing LIN has been busy promoting the benefits of co-production as an opportunity to transform the way housing, health and care services are designed and delivered into an approach that offers people real choice, and control. 

Continuing this week’s theme of co-production, we were delighted to announce the successful ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and 'Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partner for ‘TAPPI2: from Principles to Implementation’. We welcome Co-Production Works and The Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR) on board the next stage of the project, led by the Housing LIN in partnership with TEC Services Association and funded by The Dunhill Medical Trust. Read the full announcement here.

We also held a successful HAPPI Hour webinar on technology and housing with guest speakers from the Department of Health and Social Care, The Dunhill Medical Trust and Tunstall Healthcare. Missed it? The recording, presentation slides and chat report are now available to download here.

In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• Inside Housing: Landlords must make decisions with tenants, not just involve them
• Irwin Mitchell: Unlocking Potential for Seniors Housing Development: Meeting the need for an ageing population
• Age-friendly Sheffield: Co-producing with head and heat
• Pride of Place, Leeds: Multi-generational community-led LGBTQ+ housing in Leeds
• Journal of Public Health: Learning from public health practice: the development of a library of community-centered practice examples
• DLUHC guide: Local authority interventions to improve quality in supported housing

And lastly, with the Prime Minister forced to resign, the Secretary of State Michael Gove MP sacked - and replaced by Greg Clark - and the Cabinet in turmoil, I noted that the chair of the government's Housing for Older People Taskforce, Housing Minister Stuart Andrew MP, had also resigned. We await further information about his replacement at ministerial level and leading the Taskforce. However, as they say, a week in politics is a long time!

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Welcome back to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.

This week's HAPPI Hour was in association with ASH (Action of Smoking and Health) on the findings the recent ‘Smoking and social housing: Supporting residents, addressing inequalities’ report. A big thank you to our speakers who shared some of the innovative practice being undertaken on this issue from across the country. Missed it? The recording and speaker presentation slides are now available here.

It was also great to be back at the CIH annual conference in Manchester after 3 years and to catch up with several Housing LIN members in person there. I was also delighted to be invited to chair the session on Technology for an Ageing Population on the Connected Futures Stage. I was joined by TAPPI partner, Alyson Scurfield from TSA, Shirley Hall from ExtraCare Charitable Trust, Natalie Record from the Connected Places Catapult, Fiona Brown from North East ADASS and Dr Vikki McCall from the University of Stirling. 

In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• NHS England new: Integrated Care Systems come into place on 1 July
• Department for Health Plan: The Plan for Digital Health and Social Care
• ONS data: First Census 2021 results show continued population growth in Wales

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Welcome back to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.

I am sad to report that Baroness Sally Greengross has died. Sally was a passionate advocate on older people's issues and for many years a champion of age-friendly housing. Over the decades, she contributed to many key policy developments - from Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods to HAPPI - and in March this year had contributed in the House of Lords debate on housing for older people. We will miss her considerably.

This week, we published three new Housing LIN guest blogs. The first blog explores the ongoing partnership between Places for People Living Plus, Lovell Later Living and the Morgan Sindall Group. The second blog is by David Burgher, Director and Founder of VR-EP, who reveals how and why VR-EP created an immersive VR experience as a tool to help architects understand how to design dementia friendly spaces. And the third, a joint blog by Ed Warner, Founder and CEO at Motionspot and Paula Broadbent, Managing Director at Lovell Later Living on designing for the future, now!

We also celebrated Learning Disability Week, an annual campaign hosted by Mencap which raises awareness on what it's like to live with a learning disability. We drew attention to a range of resources and tools hosted on the ‘Housing and Learning Disability: Transforming care and support’ webpages, supported by Golden Lane Housing.

And finally, we explored multi-generational housing and planning practice and policy in this week’s HAPPI Hour, ‘Last homes not first homes: Housing and planning for an ageing population’, co-chaired by Winckwood Sherwood and delivered by an excellent range of speakers. Missed it? The recording and presentation slides are now available here.

In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• CaCHE: How to Combine action on housing retrofit with tackling health inequalities (and other injustices)
• Dimensions: Broken system, broken lives. 11 policies to limit ATU admissions and accelerate discharges
• Foundations: The Social Value of aids and adaptations provided by Home Improvement Agencies
• NHS Confederation: Healthy-foundations_integrating-housing-as-part-of-mental-health-pathway

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Welcome back to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.

This week, we drew attention to a range of resources and tools hosted on the Housing LIN ‘Combating loneliness and reducing social isolation’ webpages in support of Loneliness Awareness Week, hosted by Marmalade Trust, to help reduce the stigma of loneliness and encourage people to talk more openly about it.

We also shared a new report by Foundations, produced in partnership with Habinteg and Anchor Hanover with support from Taylor Wimpey, that follows the publication of the Independent Review of DFG in 2018 and provides guidance on delivering better home adaptations in social housing.

In addition, Smplicare, a software startup based in Edinburgh, is conducting one of the largest studies ever involving wearables and older people to develop AI that predicts the risk of falls, funded by UKRI. So if you’re part of an innovative assisted living or housing association that supports older people to live independently, find out more here.

In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• ExtraCare Charitable Trust: Engaged Lives: End of Project Report 2022
• Scottish Housing News: Swift action required to meet 50,000 housing-with-care supply shortfall
• Government: Fire safety guidance strengthened for new high-rise homes

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Welcome back to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks. I hope you enjoyed the long-weekend, Jubilee celebrations!

Last week, we shared a new Housing LIN guest blog by Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, TAPPI inquiry Chair, who champions the project’s ten core principles and argues that constructive dialogue and delivery are two key components to meaningful innovation that will be explored as part of Phase 2, a TEC Services Association and Housing LIN collaboration, funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust.

We also hosted a HAPPI Hour with the Dementia and Housing Working Group (DHWG) who launched a new interactive, information sharing resource which pools together the existing assistance, guidance, and research on dementia. DHWG also published a drafted outline specification for providers in the private and social housing sectors to take forward Recommendation 35 of the All Party Parliamentary Group’s Inquiry report, to appoint a Board Dementia Champion.

This week, we were delighted to share a new Housing LIN guest blog by Kirklees Council’s Head of Housing Management & Partnerships, Michelle Anderson-Dore who reveals ‘what’s next’ following new research findings on ethnic minority housing preferences and needs. It’s also Pride Month and we’ll be supporting the LGBTQ+ community by drawing your attention to our Diversity Matters resources, such as The Future of LGBTQ+ Living Leeds Survey Report published earlier this year by Pride of Place Leeds.

In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• Appello: Are You Prepared For Digital Telecare And Technology Enabled Care (TEC)?
• ARCO: Calls for right to suitable housing for older people as review launches to assess shortfall
• Disability and Rehabilitation journal: What makes home environments favorable to independence: perspectives of autistic people and their parents
• ExtraCare Charitable Trust: Engaged Lives Workshops - What's Happening & How to Get Involved
• King’s College London: What do we know about hoarding behaviour and treatment approaches for older people?
• Policy Connect: “Health is made at home; hospital is for repairs”: the need to link housing with health and wellbeing

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.

This week, we were pleased to publish a new Housing LIN guest blog by Gary Steen, Chief Technology Officer at Tunstall Healthcare, on the role of technology in innovating housing services and care delivery for vulnerable adults.

On Tuesday, we held a very insightful HAPPI Hour webinar in partnership with WWA Studios on reframing retirement. We were joined by ARCO’s Michael Voges, Housing 32’s Nick Rees and Simon Maggs from Hampshire County Council. Missed it? The recording and slides are now available to download here.

In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• Norfolk County Council videos: Independent living and Housing with Care video guides
• Third Age Design podcast: Inclusive Bathroom Design for the Third Age with Motionspot
• Centre for Ageing Better blog: Community connections predict wellbeing as we age
• TSA case study: How transforming workforce helped local authority deliver an outcomes-focused digital TEC service
• Good Governance Institute report: ICS Engagement with the Adult Social Care Sector in Decision Making
• ExtraCare Charitable Trust blog: How peer support groups have been boosting community spirit at Pannel Croft Village

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.

This week, we celebrated Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Action Week, a national campaign to encourage people to ‘act on dementia’, and drew attention to last year’s APPG on Housing with Care for Older People Inquiry report, ‘Housing for people with dementia – are we ready?’ and a selection of resources about dementia-friendly housing.

Our newest guest blog follows new research, conducted in collaboration between ASH and the Housing LIN, and is written by Sarah Davis who highlights social housing providers as valuable partners for health and social care, working to improve the health and wellbeing of people and communities.

And following Mental Health Awareness Week, we were delighted to be joined by Jolie Goodman (Mental Health Foundation) and Miranda Quinney (University of South Wales) who presented on the Standing Together Cymru and shared project findings on loneliness in later life. You’ll be pleased to know that the recording and associated presentation slides are now available, here.

In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry: Call for information
• World Health Organisation report: Global Report on Assistive Technology
• Department of Health and Social Care plan: Mental health and wellbeing plan: discussion paper and call for evidence
• ADASS report: Waiting for Care and Support  
• University of Salford: New project to help develop age-friendly communities in a post pandemic world

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.

In this week’s HLINks edition, I would like to draw attention to two new Housing LIN reports. The first, a collaborative effort with Action of Smoking and Health to outline the case for reducing rates of smoking in the social housing sector as part of social landlords’ health and wellbeing activity and the action needed to achieve this. The second, in partnership with Kirklees Council we reveal how preferences in ageing ethnic minority population affects housing (and housing related support) needs across the district.

We also celebrated Mental Health Awareness Week by drawing attention to a selection of mental health and loneliness and later life resources, including the recently launched Diversity in Care Environment Learning Resource Tool. We also hosted a HAPPI Hour on how community-led housing and how it can contribute to tackling loneliness.

On the TAPPI front, applications to become a ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and ‘Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partners have now closed and we look forward to revealing the successful applicants soon. Remember there’s still time to apply to become one of the four TAPPI2 locality “testbeds”. Closing date is Monday, 16 May 2022, 5pm.

In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• Appello: Managing the Transition to Digital Telecare: How to engage your customers
• Greater Manchester Older People's Network: Housing options information for older people in Greater Manchester
• NICE: Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness
• Public Policy Project: Integrating health and social care: a national care service
• Mental Health Foundation: All the lonely people

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