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#Jeremytalks

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 17 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 a #HLINBlog by Lorna Cameron, CEO of Horizon Housing, who reflects on collaboration with CaCHE, HACT and Stirring University on housing adaptations study. We’re also delighted to announce that ClwydAlyn Housing Association are the new sponsors of Housing LIN Cymru. They are very well known to Housing LIN members and we are thrilled that they have joined the small family of Housing LIN sponsors in Wales.

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

• Habinteg’s annual #ForAccessibleHomes week
• Age Friendly GM’s Framework for Creating Age-Friendly Homes in Great Manchester
• Housing 21 Conference – Is housing responding to the diverse needs of older people? – 06/10/2021 10:00am – 4:00pm
• The Centre for Ageing Better have launched the findings of their Good Home Inquiry

In other news, we would welcome Michael Gove's appointment as the new Housing Secretary and look forward to him reaffirming his department's commitment to establish a Housing with Care Task Force.

And make sure to book your place and join us at next week’s #HAPPIHour with Winckworth Sherwood on investing in places and communities to make an idea home which is the first session of our Autumn series.

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.

Lastly, 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

This week’s news has been dominated by the Prime Minister’s announcement on the Government’s plan for health and social care. Where we welcome the reference to housing and the need to live well and independent in our own homes for as long as possible, there is still anxiety around insufficient funding to meet future care. With the deliverables from this plan unlikely to take shape until October 2023, the Housing LIN is supportive of Methodists Homes’ #FixCareForAll as an important and timely campaign calling for immediate government action.

In other news, this week we celebrated our new sponsor of the Housing LIN’s dedicated Sight loss, Home and the Built Environment webpages, West Waddy Archadia (WWA). And, to coincide with this announcement, Mark Slater, Design Director at WWA, explores macro and micro scales when working on architecture, urban design and planning for blind and partially sighted people in a new Housing LIN guest blog.

You can also 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, planning matters and more. We highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• The Government’s plan on health and social care after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Report by the APPG on Dementia that calls for Government to deliver on its manifesto commitment and fund the Dementia Moonshot.

And remember, you can now sign up to attend this month's HAPPIHour webinar sessions. We're delighted to kick off the Autumn series on Sep 21 on 'Investing in Ideal Homes' with Winckworth Sherwood, followed by Sep 28 when we take 'a practical look at intergenerational living'.

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 (formerly @HousingLINews) and @HLINConsult.

Lastly, 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

#Jeremytalks

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 3 September 2021, the first after our August news break.

If you missed some of the thought-leadership pieces we published over the summer, you can find them here:

• A Home for Life: Understanding liminal Space as a place to just be, by Helen Brown
• What dementia readiness actually looks like, by Yasmeen Hussein
• If this building is still standing in a year’s time, I will be blown away, by Megan Reynolds
• Laying the Foundations of Smart Care Technology, by Christian Geisselmann

And to coincide with the NHF’s #StartsatHome day today and the focus on supported housing, we are also delighted to announce our newest #InspirationalAchievement featuring Sanctuary Supported Living’s Shaftesbury Court, a residential care home that has been named a finalist in the ‘Healthy Homes’ category of the 2021 Inside Housing Development Awards.

In other news, you can also 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. We highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• The 2021 to 2022 Better Care Fund policy framework.
• The Good Home Dialogue by the Centre for Ageing Better.
• Collaboration between Fine & Able and Sophie Morgan showing that accessible design can also be beautiful.
• Tackling Loneliness research briefing by House of Commons Library.
• Towards a dementia inclusive society: WHO toolkit for dementia-friendly initiatives.
• The Archbishops of Canterbury’s and York’s new Care Commission (also a Housing LIN HAPPI Hour on Tuesday, 5 October).

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

The eagle-eyed amongst you will spot that we have change the Twitter handle from @HousingLINews to @HLINComms. Do follow this to keep up-to-date with our latest communications!

Lastly, 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

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 30th July 2021. This is the last issue before our August news break.

This week saw the release of the Appello/Housing LIN report, ‘‘The Tech Pandemic: the long-term impact of COVID-19 on usage of technology in specialist housing". The findings from our joint survey reveal that housing leaders believe their investment in technology will increase as a result of COVID-19.

And, in other news, we take a weekly tour of what’s new in later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. We highlight a range of important policy announcements and new resources that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• The Government’s National Disability Strategy which makes a number of references to housing and assistive technology
• The Nationwide Building Society’s report, ‘The future of home: A mutual approach’
• The Commission for Healthy Cities’ call for evidence
• Lord Kerslake’s Commission’s interim report on homelessness and rough sleeping,
• and, CIH Cymru’s report on housing advice and hospital discharge

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, during our summer news break, you can also access latest news on our webpages or follow us on our various Twitter or LinkedIn feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult

Lastly, 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 consultancy services to support you, email ‘Jeremytalks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Stay connected and stay safe over the summer.

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 23rd July 2021.

We are pleased to announce that Lovell Later Living has become the latest sponsor of the Housing LIN. To coincide, their Managing Director of Later Living, Paula Broadbent, has written a guest Housing LIN blog setting out their ambitions as a business in our sector.

And this week, ahead of our HAPPI Hour on Compassionate Neighbours we also published a guest blog by Sparko TV’s Jenny Grosett in which she describes their work with Anchor Hanover and St Joseph’s Hospice to digitally support residents at Lime Tree Court, Hackney and those digitally excluded.

In other news in the week, the Government’s lockdown restrictions were eased, you can also take a tour of latest news and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. We highlight a bumper range of important policy announcements and new resources that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• The Government’s announcement of the launch of their new national Autism Strategy which also builds on their housing commitments
• The Government’s publication of their updated National Model Design Code with reference to housing quality that is inclusive and accessible, and revised National Planning Policy Framework
• The Hansard transcript of this month’s Parliamentary Debate on Housing with Care
• A guide created by The King’s Fund and Picker for partners working in integrated care systems on how they can listen to and learn from people and communities.
• The recent Ageing Better Sheffield/South Yorkshire Housing Association coproduction toolkit, The Stronger Together
• A new report by the County Councils Network and Tunstall Healthcare on employing assistive technology in adult social care
• The SCIE Housing with Care Commission’s call for information on BAME and LGBTQ+ housing, and
• Details on how to book your place for next week’s HAPPI Hour session on fostering innovation in designing for ageing with Phoenix Community Housing and Levitt Bernstein Architects and UKRI’s Healthy Ageing Challenge.

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: ADD

Lastly, 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

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Stay connected and, above all, with new lockdown ‘freedoms’ having been introduced from Monday, continue to stay safe.

Eid Mubarak to all those who are celebrating.

Jeremy

Welcome to our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 16 July 2021.

This week we published a guest blog by Carla Fulgoni, Planning Policy and Appeals Manager at Planning Bureau Ltd. & Chair of the Dorset Young Planners’ Committee, looking at the experience of Young Planners in planning and responding to the demands of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In other new, we highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• A new report published by Centre for Ageing Better on The missing market: How home retailers can better meet the needs of over 50s consumers.
• New home adaptations training courses from DLF
• The NCF welcomes new ground-breaking research on the social care workforce crisis
• And, the NIHR School for Social Care research funds a project on how Extra Care Housing can help people to live well with dementia.

Register here to keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters, sent direct to your inbox. You can also follow us on Twitter at @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult.

And please do get in contact if you would like to discuss matters highlighted in this week’s issues, share learning about your work or find out more on how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you.

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

Welcome to our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 9 July 2021.

This week we published a guest blog by Maarit Heinonen-Smith, Associate Director at IBI Group and Lead for Retirement Living and Senior Care, exploring the concept of vertical retirement villages and what this looks like for the UK. We also thank Katey Twyford, for all the support she has provided the Housing LIN over the years as dementia co-lead, and welcome Candy Worf, Senior Commissioners at Somerset Country Council, who we are pleased to announce will be taking over.

In other news, we highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• a reflection on the HAPPI4 Report for #RuralHousingWeek
• and for #CoProWeek, a reminder of our illustrated CollaborAGE directory
• ILC-UK’s new report on the benefits of supporting people to spend more time in good health, and
• we take a look at what was said during last Thursday’s parliamentary debate on housing with care

Register here to keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care matters, sent direct to your inbox. You can also follow us on Twitter at @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult.

And please do get in contact if you would like to discuss matters highlighted in this week’s issues, share learning about your work or find out more on how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you.

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

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 2nd July 2021.

This week we published a guest blog by Dr Joy Malala in which she highlights the key issues raised in her new book on the home in the digital age for the Home Renaissance Foundation.

In other news, you can also take a tour of latest news and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. We highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• An update from ADASS on the EU Settlement Scheme
• Information from the House of Commons debate yesterday on housing with care
• A report by the University of California at Davis on Planning Healthy Ageing Communities, and
• we signpost to next week’s HAPPI Hour on housing for people with a learning disability or autism.

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:

Lastly, 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

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

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

Jeremy

#Jeremytalks

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 25th June 2021 to coincide with World Wellbeing Week.

This week Age Friendly Ireland launched its new online resources to future proof housing for an ageing population. Drawing on the expertise of the Housing LIN, the website provides guidance of features to include in a lifetime adaptable and age friendly home, alongside case studies, research, funding information and design templates.

In other web developments, as part of our commitment to the national Health and Housing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Housing LIN has created a new resource page that’s showcase examples of how local strategic health, care and housing partners have come together to produce their MoUs and agree their action plans.

We have also published a guest blog by Nathan Rhodes from Look Ahead Care and Support on their approach to Psychologically Informed Environments and how it is crucial in delivering high quality support services across a variety of support settings.

And yesterday, close to 200 people signed up to join our latest HAPPI Hour session on appealing adaptations and aspirational future-proofed apartments for later living. We heard from Ed Warner, founder of Motionspot, on accessible design principles and innovative products and from Shirley Hall, the Head of Research, Innovation and Customer Insight at ExtraCare Charitable Trust, on now they have partnered with Motionspot to instal a show apartment in Solihull. We were then joined by Dr Yvonne Fullwood and Millie Brown from the Centre for Ageing Better’s evidence team who shared details about their current The Good Home Inquiry.

You can also take a tour of other news and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. We highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• A new report published by the Housing and Dementia Research Consortium, hosted by the University of Worcester, that outlines recommendations that providers of housing with care should adopt to better support people living with dementia in Extra Care Housing.
• Findings from a new NIHR SSCR funded study by Kent University on delayed transfers of care and how they were reduced by an increase in local home care and care home provision
• A letter from ADASS and partners to the Prime Minister calling for urgent social care reform
• NHSX’ draft strategy on reshaping health and social care data
• A new guide by the Campaign to End Loneliness on bereavement during Covid

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, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult

Lastly, 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

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

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

Jeremy

#Jeremytalks

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 18th June 2021 to coincide with both Loneliness Awareness Week and Learning Disability Week.

This week we published a guest blog by John Tonkiss, McCarthy Stone’s Chief Executive on their approach to becoming a dementia-friendly organisation.

And yesterday, over 100 people signed up to join our latest HAPPI Hour session on Housing with Pride. We heard from a selection of contributions on the housing needs and aspirations of older LGBT community from Surrey University’s Professor Andy King, Tonic Housing and One Housing Group, the LGBT Foundation and Anchor Hanover.  

You can also take a tour of other news and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. We highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

• An evaluation report on Derby City Council’s Local Area Coordination project
• A new report by New Philanthropy Capital on tips to help your remote project tackle loneliness
• Information on Ipsos Mori’s survey for NHS England and Improvement on the future of digital in adult social care
• news that the University of Worcester have been awarded a grant to undertake further research into extra care housing and dementia, and
• A new report by Public Health Scotland on healthy housing.

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:

Lastly, 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

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

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

Jeremy