HLINks archive

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

In this week’s edition, we would like to remind our readers that there’s still time to apply to become of The Dunhill Medial Trust’s TAPPI2 “testbeds”. This is a fantastic opportunity to co-produce a TAPPI Framework, led by community-based organisations who are interested in ensuring the principles proposed during Phase 1 are developed and tested in real settings. The deadline for submissions is 16 May 2022.

We also draw attention to Dying Matters Awareness Week, and this year’s campaign asks us all to consider whether we’re #InAGoodPlace to talk about death, dying and grief? The Housing LIN wanted to show support by sharing a selection of bereavement and end of life care resources that you may find useful, including the recently launched 'Better Lives, Better Endings' resource by Octavia and St Christopher’s Hospice.

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

• UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge: The SMART Grant is here
• Chartered Institute of Housing: CIH responds to Government plans to revive Right to Buy for housing association tenants
• TSA/TLAP: Why the Future of Technology Enabled Care is in the Hands of the User and Carer
• Learning Disability England: Funding the gap – Helping Self-Advocacy Grow

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

In this edition, we draw attention to Policy Connect's new report, ‘Smarter Homes for Independent Living: Putting people In Control of their Lives’ that looks at how smart home technology is a huge opportunity for disabled and older people to take control of their lives, to live independently with more choice and control over their lives.

This week, we also celebrated Global Intergenerational Awareness Week 2022, a campaign connecting everyone who is passionate about everything intergenerational. The Housing LIN has happily signed up to show our support by sharing a selection of resources that you may find useful on intergenerational and multi-generational living.

We also remind readers that the deadline to supply evidence to the current APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry, ‘Making retirement living affordable: the role of shared ownership housing’ is 4 May 2022.

And remember, there’s still time to apply to become one of The Dunhill Medical Trust’s TAPPI2 “testbeds”. The deadline for submissions is 16 May 2022.

And in other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• Housing 2022: Stress Awareness Month speaker interview with Jeremy Porteus
• Llywodraeth Cymru Welsh Government Strategy for an ageing society: Delivery plan
• The Church of England: Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care - Listening and Engagement Exercise
• Centre for Ageing Better: Creating age-friendly homes in Greater Manchester

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

Readers will be sad to learn that Care and Repair England have announced that after 36 years they are closing at the end of April. In response, I tweeted: “This is such sad news. You’ve been part of my professional upbringing since the start. I am proud to have served as a past Trustee and collaborate over the years on policy and practice developments for better housing quality, decent homes and information and advice services for older people.”

In this week's HLINks, we also draw attention to our most recent Housing LIN guest blog by Paul Willis, Associate Professor at the University of Bristol’s School for Policy Studies and Brian Beach, Research Fellow at University College London and formerly at ILC-UK. You can also sign up to hear from Paul about The DICE Project at our upcoming HAPPI Hour - Diversity in Care Environments: A better understanding of social inclusion of older people on Tuesday, 3 May 2022.

We also remind readers that the deadline to supply evidence to the current APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry, ‘Making retirement living affordable: the role of shared ownership housing’ is 4 May 2022.

And remember, you can also apply to become one of the Dunhill Medical Trust TAPPI2 “testbeds”. The deadline for submissions is 16 May 2022.

And in other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• A Centre for Ageing Better blog: Creating age-friendly homes in Greater Manchester
• A SCIE guide: Supporting people who provide unpaid care for adults with health or social care needs
• New Local article: There’s not enough community power within ICSs
• Community Catalysts blog: Equipment, coproduction and living great lives
• Legrand blog: TLAP and TSA launch new alliance to increase co-production in technology enabled care sector
• Med-Tech innovation News: Tunstall blog - Innovating our services: the role of tech

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

Due to the Easter bank holiday weekend, we are publishing HLINks a day early!

In this week's edition, we draw attention to Jenny Katurpelis’ new guest Housing LIN blog in which she explores mutual relationships and their benefits and challenges to planners.

We also remind readers that the deadline to supply evidence to the current APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry, ‘Making retirement living affordable: the role of shared ownership housing’ is 4 May 2022.

And remember, you can also apply to become one of the Dunhill Medical Trust TAPPI2 “testbeds”. The deadline for submissions is 16 May 2022.

And in other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• The Dunhill Medical Trust funding awards announcement: Building and developing suitable living environments and communities for an ageing population
• A Home Renaissance Foundation report: The-Impact-of-Technology-in-the-Home
• A RIBA book (for sale £35 plus p&p): The Happy Design Toolkit: Architecture for Better Mental Wellbeing
• The Department of Health and Social Care Guidance: Hospital discharge and community support
• A Scottish Government consultation: Guidance on Providing Community Equipment and Housing Adaptations
• Church of England Reimagining Care Commission blog: Building public support for social care reform: what can England learn from other countries?

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In this week's HLINks, we report on a new guest blog for the Housing LIN by Nigel Hopkins of Standards Wise International in which he looks at how standards in senior living can benefit both the consumer and the service provider.

We also remind readers that the deadline for applying to become one of The Dunhill Medical Trust’s TAPPI2 “testbeds”, as announced at last week’s ITEC conference in Birmingham, is 16 May 2022. Today is also the final day you can apply to become the Evaluation and Shared Learning Partner. Get your submissions in!

This week we were delighted to set a new registrations record for one of our HAPPI Hour sessions! Thank you to all 323 people who registered to attend Tuesday’s webinar on fire safety in specialist housing. Speakers from PRP architects, Ongo Homes, Metropolitan Thames Valley and GreensquareAccord housing associations delivered excellent presentations, and we were also joined by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities during the Q&A discussion. Missed this? You can watch the recording or view the slides here.

And in other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• A new House of Lords Adult Social Care Select Committee Inquiry on the ‘invisibility’ of adult social care
• Bureau of Investigative Journalism survey exposes findings on adaptation featured on Channel Four programme
• A new The World Bank report: Silver Hues: Building Age-ready Cities
• Have your say in a Centre for Ageing Better survey on home improvement agencies in England
• Habinteg survey: Accessible Now Survey on letting wheelchair accessible properties
• Learning Disability England blog and impact report, Digital Lifeline Project
• A new TLAP report: Better Direct Payments: from insight to action
• And have your say with ARCO’s call for information on unmet need and Integrated Retirement Communities – Deadline extended to Thursday, 14 April

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 1 April 2022

In this week's HLINks, we report on two new fantastic The Dunhill Medical Trust (DMT) funded projects that hit the Housing LIN headlines.

The first is the formal launch of TAPPI2 at the ITEC conference in Birmingham this week. Following the DMT's recent announcements that they are seeking a Co-production and Engagement Partner and an Evaluation and Share Learning Partner, the next phase of TAPPI involves four demonstrator sites implementing the findings and 10 foundational principles from last year's TAPPI Inquiry. The Housing LIN is delighted to be responsible for hosting the TAPPI2 microsite and curating content as phase 2 develops.

The second item is the new Amar Bari, Amar Jibon research project with The Open University and Bangla Housing Association. Meaning ‘My Home, My Life’, the project was launched on Saturday to coincide with Bangladesh Independence Day. The Housing LIN is proud to be a knowledge partner in this 30-month project into the housing needs of the older ('probin') Bangladeshi community in Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets

On Monday, the government also published its new guidance on Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) delivery. The DFG guidance will help local authorities to meet their responsibilities, including legal duties, and tailor local delivery to support their communities and the individual needs of disabled people, their family and carers.

And in other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:

• TCPA’s Healthy Homes campaign: Parliamentary amendment secured
• New DLUHC funding: New £4m fund gives communities power to deliver affordable homes
• A DLUHC call for resident members: Social Housing Quality Resident Panel (includes residents of sheltered housing)
• New Department of Health and Social Care guidance: Market Sustainability and Fair Cost of Care Fund 2022 to 2023
• A Phoenix Group Insight report: The Longer Lives Index
• A University of Northumbria Hoarding study summary, ‘To make it easier to live, you know?’
• And lastly, it was #AutismAcceptanceWeek and Progress Housing released a new video called 'Meet Josh'

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 25 March 2022

On Tuesday, we held a really stimulating HAPPI Hour session. We were inspired by Central and Cecil’s (C&C) Managing Director, Julia Ashley and Aster's Chief Strategy Officer, Dawn Fowler-Stevens, who shared their insights and learning on forging a new partnership to transform housing and care-tech choices. You can watch the recording and view the slides here.

We also published a guest blog for the Housing LIN by Dr Sheila Peace, Emeritus Professor at The Open University and a past president of the British Society of Gerontology, about her new book and her thoughts on the meaning of home in older age.

Other news that caught my interest this week, includes:

• Centre for Ageing Better report: Leeds Neighbourhood Network evaluation - Phase two
• Nationwide Building Society report: Future of Home
• Foundations tool: Adaptations Triage Tool
• New Almshouse research: The Dunhill Medical Trust awards funding to ARC for the Future

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 18 March 2022.

In this week's HLINks, we lead on the House of Lords debate on housing for older people led by Baroness Sally Greengross and the government's response on establishing a cross-departmental taskforce on housing for older people. We look forward to sharing further information about the Taskforce, expected after the Easter recess.

This week also saw further details released about recruitment of an Evaluation and Shared Learning Partner for The Dunhill Medical Trust (DMT) funded TAPPI2 Project, in association with the Housing LIN and the TEC Services Association (TSA). The deadline for submissions is Friday, 8 April 2022.

And yesterday, the Centre for Ageing Better published their flagship report, The State of Ageing 2022, which provides a comprehensive view on how people are ageing, compiled from public and government data sets, including a key section with information on housing.

Other news that caught my interest this week, includes:

• Government Announcement: a package of measures to put an end to unscrupulous landlords exploiting some of the most vulnerable in our society.
• Policy Press book (to order): The Environments of Ageing: Space, Place and Materiality
• Ageing Issues article: Four pathways for improving co-research methods with older people
• Learning Disability England framework: Good Lives: Building Change Together
• Shakespeare Martineau solicitors Green Homes Report: What Buyers Want

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 11 March 2022.

In this week’s HLINks, we highlight a new End of Life Care, Suite of Resource co-produced by Octavia and St Christopher’s Hospice. The suite shares the learning and findings from their two-year long project with staff and residents in the West London housing association schemes, Better Lives, Better Endings. If you missed the launch during this week’s HAPPI Hour, the recordings, slides and feedback are now available here.

We also published two guest blogs. The first by Jenny Katurpulis MBE on her recent book about relational care and intergenerational living. And the second by Anchor’s Chief Financial Officer, Sarah Jones. Entitled, Conversations with our families and loved ones about our housing and care needs are vital as we grow older, it features their report published last week, Fragmented UK.

In other news that caught my interest this week, included:

• Foundations’ new guide Housing associations, home adaptations and independent lives: Finding ways to say yes
• Pride of Place Living Leeds wins William Sutton Prize for Social Innovation
• On Tuesday it was International Women’s Day and to coincide we drew attention to the Housing LIN’s case study about the Older Women’s Cohousing development in North London
• On Thursday, it was also Social Prescribing Day and we highlighted our CollaborAGE directory which includes a range of examples of social prescription within a housing context, and
• ARCO call for info: Calls for right to suitable housing for older people as review launches to assess shortfall

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 4 March 2022. I can’t believe we are in March already!

In this week’s edition, we draw attention to a new Housing LIN guest blog by Sara Livadeas, Head of Operations and Engagement Programmes Canadian operator Origin Active Living, about their take on the UK later living market and plans for growth.

We also share a new report published by Anchor this week which looks into the changing nature of family dynamics in the UK, peoples’ expectations of later life – particularly in terms of independence and care – and how retirement housing can help to tackle these challenges.

Other news that caught my interest this week, included:

• Local Government Chronicle: Anna Dixon: We must not forget care is about people
• Tunstall: A ground breaking telehealth pilot: What can we learn?
• The King's Fund: Social care 360
• social care institute for excellence: Safeguarding Adult Reviews Quality Markers

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