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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 26 November 2021.

With one week to go, we are gearing up to the Housing LIN's 2021 virtual Summit - A Festival of Ideas. The week-long programme of webinars begins on Monday, 6 December and we have 11 great sessions over 5 days to grab your interest.

The Summit is extremely timely as we are expecting the Department of Health and Social Care's Adult Social Care White Paper to be published imminently. It is expected that it will make reference to the importance of good quality new housing, the adaptation of existing homes and the greater use of technology to support personalised care at home. We are hoping it will also set out a wider strategic vision backed by related funding proposals to support sector transformation.

We look forward to highlighting the sector's response to the White Paper during Summit week. In the meantime, sign up to a wide-ranging selection of sessions. 

And other news, views and resources that caught my interest this week include:

• Centre for Ageing Better Report - Youngest baby boomers risk becoming a ‘forgotten generation’ with inequality skyrocketing and financial pressures worsening
• Exploring the contribution of housing adaptations in supporting everyday life for people with dementia: a scoping review

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult. 

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 19 November 2021.

This week saw a triple bill of reports come out that are highly relevant to Housing LIN members.

The first by the Housing LIN Consultancy and research undertaken for the Almshouse Association that shows the significant financial benefits of almshouses within local economies. This was formally launched yesterday at the APPG on Almshouses meeting, and you can now read the report.  

We were also proud to sit on the Dunhill Medical Trust funded SCIE Commission on the Future of Housing and Care. It published its report this week making a number of key recommendations for Government, including creating a national long-term vision and strategy for housing with care and for older people. I was pleased to be invited to say a few words at the launch on Monday.

And ARCO, the trade body for retirement community operators, released their report Putting the care in housing with care. The report explains why and how Integrated Retirement Communities can provide care more effectively and efficiently.

The value of good quality housing with care for older people was further outlined in a new Housing LIN Inspirational Achievement published this week featuring the new EMH extra care development, Springfields, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. This also coincides with EMH's 75th anniversary!  

You can also join EMH's Chris Jones at next month's Housing LIN's virtual Summit - A Festival of Ideas - to find out more. He will be presenting in a session on Reimagining retirement living - a new look at older people’s housing? on Tuesday, 7 December 2021 from 10am.

Other news, views and resources that caught my interest this week include:

• Care and repair England's report, Making Homes Fit for Ageing & Caring
• The 2nd episode of Ed Balls' BBC documentary on Inside the Care Crisis
• DHSC webinar on Covid registrations for Extra Care, Supported Living and Adult Services on Friday, 26 November from 1pm.
• Dr Sophie Yarker’s book, Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society

Lastly, it was #LongevityWeek this week and I was privileged to chair a Panel Session at UKRI's Healthy Ageing 2021 virtual conference on Monday. I was joined by the University of Stirling's Dr Vikki McCall; Connected Places Catapult Director, Erin Walsh; The Chair of The Good Home Inquiry, David Orr; and the CEO of the London Rebuilding Society, Naomi Kingsley, in the session, Transforming Homes - Adaptable Spaces for Healthy Places.

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult.

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 12 November 2021

This is where you can take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more.

For example, this week, we published two Housing LIN guest blogs. The first follows the HAPPI Hour ‘From Moving on to Moving In’, is by Gail Lincoln, former researcher and lecturer in Health Science at the University of Westminster who reflects on her own research on wellbeing differences in older 'Movers' and 'Non Movers’. The second, by Julia Godwin, Business Development at Sparko TV, follows the recent launch of the TAPPI Inquiry Report, and reviews why Sparko TV support the 10 TAPPI principles.

With 3 weeks to go before this year’s Housing LIN Virtual Summit, we have been sharing more information on the great line-up of ‘IdeaTalks’ showcasing the latest in thought-leadership, highlighting product and service innovations, as well as bringing you cutting-edge research and practice development for the UK’s housing with care sector.

With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in mind, we would like to remind you of our recent case study on Melfield Gardens, 100% affordable homes for Phoenix Community Housing that combine intergenerational living with HAPPI principles whilst targeting a highly sustainable Passivhaus standard.

We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• COP26: Time to improve existing homes by Sue Adams, CEO of Care and Repair England

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 5 November 2021.

This is where you can take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more.

For example, following last week's TAPPI launch, we're excited to share two new Housing LIN guest blogs from two TAPPI Panel members, Julia Ashley, Chief Executive, Central and Cecil (C&C) and Alyson Scurfield, Chief Executive, TSA - The Voice of Technology Enabled Care. On reflection of their experience as panel members, Julia reveals how the learning from the Inquiry has supported their own digital journey, while Alyson explains what we need to do to create a system where people and professionals use, trust and love technology so it becomes a key part of a preventative health and social care system. 

In addition, we kick off the week with a guest blog from Sarah Burgess on robust sales and marketing planning this Autumn, ahead of this week's HAPPI Hour entitled, 'From Moving On to Moving In'. We heard from a great selection of speakers about their personal, operational, research and practice experience about downsizing. Please note that this session was the last HAPPI Hour of the year. We look forward to announcing our Spring programme in due course.

And, if you missed last week's announcement about next month's virtual Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas, we have updated our home page and created this 30 seconds animation to help promote the variety of sessions taking place that week! Please book your places and share details with your colleagues and networks. It would be great to beat the 900 people who joined us during last year's Summit! 

We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• ARCO have launched a new term for our sector – Integrated Retirement Community
• Supporting social care providers to adopt care technologies through a new investment fund
• House of Commons 'Supporting people with dementia and their carers' paper
• Analysis of decade long integrated care pilots, and
• Several new resources from Wales and Scotland.

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult.

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to  #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 29 September 2021.

This is where you can take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more. 

Well, what a week of news it has been! While the nation may have been fixed on the Chancellor's spending plans, the highlight for me has been the launch of the TAPPI Inquiry report. Over 260 people registered to join us on Tuesday's HAPPI Hour when we were pleased to share the ‘Big Insights’ from the 6-months drawing on Panel Members and witnesses to highlight the key findings and recommendations for a future TAPPI Framework that is co-designed with citizens and co-produced with Industry.

Ahead of the launch, we were also pleased to publish a guest blog by Tim Barclay, CEO of Appello, reflecting on the use of technology in specialist housing and explaining why they fully support the TAPPI Inquiry Report.

Then yesterday, we announced the programme for December's Housing LIN Virtual Summit 2021, our 10th anniversary celebration. We have over 40 speakers joining us over 5 days, week commencing Monday, 6 December 2021 to share the latest in thought-leadership, highlighting product and service innovations, as well as bringing you cutting-edge research and practice development for the UK’s housing and care sector. Our A Festival of Ideas also coincides with the 2nd HAPPI Awareness Week, celebrating the benefits of designing care-ready accommodation and age-friendly housing services. More on this next week!

We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• The Budget and housing with care
• Reimagining Care Commission Listening and Engagement Exercise
• A Centre for Ageing Better blog by Jacquel Runnalls on how small tweaks to design can make products accessible for the home.
• Standards Wise International blog (following the Housing LIN's recent HAPPI Hour session on Intergenerational living).

Looking ahead, our final HAPPI Hour session of our autumn series takes place on Tuesday, 2 November, ‘From Moving on to Moving In’. We will be focussing on different approaches to 'rightsizing' and later life moves from both a range of personal and practitioner perspectives.

And remember, if you are an early career professional, next Friday is the deadline for applying to be part of the 2nd cohort of our Future Leaders programme. Find out more, here!

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult.

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week's issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email 'Jeremy talks' at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and stay safe,

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 22 October 2021

This is where you can take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more.

For example, this week, we published a new Housing LIN guest blog jointly written by Policy Connect’s Clive Gilbert and the Open University’s Dr Jenny Matson who draw attention to the government’s recent National Disability Strategy and considers how assistive technology can help enable disabled and older people achieve genuine choice and control. Clive is also a panelist on the Housing LIN's Technology for an Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) Inquiry. You can now register to attend the online TAPPI Inquiry report launch on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 4pm. 

And if you missed this week's HAPPI Hour 'Intergenerational living is the future – where are the opportunities?’, you can watch the recording and access the slides, here. We're also delighted to have received such excellent feedback:

• A good mix of experienced practitioners sharing some exciting, new and innovative ideas and thinking.
• Very interesting and promising concept for future housing development.
• Informative and shows that thinking in this area is moving in a positive direction, across many areas of our sector

We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• New HHA blog – Homes fit for purpose for an ageing population, by Sarah Davies, CIH
• Knight Frank’s Senior Living Annual Review
• Future Care Capital report
• Final call for the NHSX Digitising Social Care Fund
• DemECH – Commissioner survey

And lastly, looking to next week, we are really excited about the launch of the TAPPI Inquiry report. Ahead of the launch, we have produced this animation to promote the event. Join TAPPI Inquiry chair, Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, Susan Kay from Dunhill Medical Trust, members of the TAPPI Expert Panel and those who gave evidence to learn about the 10 guiding principles and recommendations in Phase One of this influential project. Register now!

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and  register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds:  @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult.

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week's issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email 'Jeremy talks' at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 15 October 2021.

This is where you can take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more.

For example, this week, we published a joint Housing LIN guest blog by Matter Architecture's Roland Karthaus and United for All Ages' Stephen Burke on places of social and economic exchange.This is ahead of next week’s extended HAPPI Hour session on Intergenerational Living on Tuesday, 19 October 2021.

And if you missed it, you can now access the recording and slides from this week's HAPPI Hour 'From Passivhaus to Active Ageing'. We are delighted to have received such excellent feedback:

• Informative and super useful. Covering different angles to an important and complex subject.
• A great format to pick and choose from some really well presented informative content.

We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• New two-part BBC Two programme called 'Dementia & Us'.
• Skills for Care's State of the Nation Report on the The value of adult social care in England
• The new Welsh Government's strategy, Age friendly Wales: our strategy for an ageing society.

And lastly, looking ahead, we are really excited that we are quickly closing in on the launch of the TAPPI Inquiry report. Chaired by Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, and funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, we invite you to join members of the TAPPI Expert Panel and those who gave evidence on Tuesday, 26 October to learn about the 10 guiding principles and recommendations in Phase One of this influential project. You can sign up to attend, here. 

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN,  @HLINComms and @HLINConsult

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week's issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  'Jeremy talks'  at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 8 October 2021.

This week we were thrilled to announce that we are recruiting for the 2nd cohort of our Future Leader programme. Sponsored by Thirteen Group, we are looking up to 10 early career professionals to join our exciting programme next year. Deadline for submissions is Friday, 5 November at 5pm. We look forward to announcing the successful applicants at our Virtual Summit in early December.

In other news, the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, speaking at the Conservative Party Conference this week said, "health and social care begins at home". He went on to call for seamless integration between health and social care and the need to embrace innovation and digitisation. To coincide, two timely Housing and Ageing Alliance (HAA) blogs reveal how crucial housing is to at home care and support.

The first by HAA chair and Care & Repair England CEO, Sue Adams, sets out how integration of housing can help hospital systems and deliver greater benefits to residents. And, in the second HAA blog, I write about technology-enabled care and housing and the need for better digital integration across housing, health and social care, something that the forthcoming TAPPI inquiry report will spell out in greater detail later this month. You can book your free place for the online launch event on the afternoon of 26 October, here.

Staying with technology, this week we also published a Housing LIN blog by Housing 21's Laura Francis called 'Let's discover IT' in which she shares information on the programme she has developed for residents and staff.

And if you missed this week's HAPPI Hour with Dr Anna Dixon and guest speakers from MHA, Community Circles, ExtraCare Charitable Trust and Age UK Bristol on  'Reimagining Care' as part of the Archbishops' Commission she is chairing, you can watch the session again, here. And next week's HAPPI Hour is on Passivhaus and low carbon housing. Register now!

Other new resources that caught our interest this week included:

• A ‘quick read’ practical help for discharged Manchester hospital patients
• Appello case study: Orbit realise the benefits of smart living solutions in their independent living properties
• Ready Generations blog on their intergenerational nursey project
• A Practical Look at International Living by Street Wise International, reflecting on last week’s #HAPPIHour – rewatch here. 

And lastly, keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN ,  @HLINComms and  @HLINConsult

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 1 October 2021.

This is where you can take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more.

For example, this week, we published a new Housing LIN Case Study exploring Melfield Gardens in Lewisham, a housing scheme winner of a 2021 Housing Design Awards last night!  We also shared a new guest blog by Jon Foster, Director of Service Development, Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing on what it means for social care to be in recovery.

We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• Public Call for Evidence by Policy Connect’s Smart Homes and Independent Living Commission.
• One week to go! Apply for Clarion Housing Group’s William Sutton Prize
• And a blog I wrote on ‘Hard-wiring digitally connected care and independent living’ for the Housing and Ageing Alliance.

We would also like to highlight that we see #HomeshareWeek2021 as an integral part of our #CollaborAGE community chest. You can find a range of reports, guest blogs and case studies on #homesharing, here.

And lastly, join us at next week’s #HAPPIHour with the Archbishops of Canterbury’s and York’s new Commission on Reimagining Care, showcasing a selection of community-based approached to care within a housing context.

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN,  @HLINComms and @HLINConsult.

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.

Jeremy

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 24 September 2021.

This is where you can take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more.

For example, this week, we published our newest #InspirationalAchievement feature, a multi-generational community scheme in Shaw Heath, Stockport led and designed by PRP’s Manchester studio. We are also delighted to announce that GreenSquareAccord is the new sponsor of the Housing LIN’s peer-to-peer discussion forum webpage.

We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• The Workhome Project launches new website
• A new MMU/Pozzoni Architecture guide on how to address the changing needs and aspirations of an ageing society
• Useful information highlighting this week’s #NationalEyeHealthWeek
• And a free to download environmental assessment tool for Health and Care settings by University of Worcester, Association for Dementia Studies

And lastly, join us at next week’s #HAPPIHour when we take a practical look at intergenerational living with North West housing and care operator, Belong, Ready Generations, and Adrian Hill Architects about their award-winning project for Enfield Council/MTVH.

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters and register here to receive other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HLINComms and @HLINConsult

If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

Stay connected and, above all, with further lockdown arrangements delayed for the time being, remain safe.

Jeremy