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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 11th June 2021. 

This week we published two guest blogs. The first is by Aileen Evans, CEO of Grand Union HA and President of the Chartered Institute of Housing (who was also a member of the RE-COV Advisory Group), in which she reflects on the findings from the study and our research with St Monica Trust on the impact of Covid on the retirement village and extra care housing sector. The second blog is by Professor Roy Sandbach, chair of our TAPPI Inquiry, who has transcribed the presentation he gave at the AGM of Lord Best's APPG last month, sharing his thoughts on why technology in later life matters.

And yesterday, over 150 people joined our latest HAPPI Hour session on a roadmap to housing for an ageing population. We heard from a selection of regional contributions from English housing associations including: Clarion Group, Southway Housing Trust, South Yorkshire Housing Association and Methodist Homes.  Each shared their individual strategic and operational objectives in planning, developing and managing a range of housing choices for people in later life. 

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 by the World Health Organisation’s guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches
• a new report by the Pensions Policy Institute entitled ‘What is an adequate retirement income?’
• the government’s latest paper on the planning system (recommending a new planning use class for specialist housing), and
• Launched today! Motionspot’s new website to support businesses looking to create accessible and inclusive buildings and services.

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 expected to come into force later this month, remain safe.

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 4th June 2021.  

This week we published a new Housing LIN case study on Octavia housing association's End of Life Care in extra care housing project with partner St Christopher's Hospice. And, in our first HAPPI Hour session of the month, we heard from the partners about their Better Care, Better Endings project at yesterday afternoon's HAPPI Hour webinar. We were also joined by speakers from NHS England's Anticipatory Care team on the forthcoming community health framework and ADASS’ housing policy co-chair exploring how to better engage and integrate with housing. Check out this session and our exciting June programme on our Forthcoming Events webpage. Register now!

We also released a guest blog by Matter Architectures' Roland Karthaus on the ethos of care prompted by last month's The Regeneration Game HAPPI Hour and the presentation by Igloo Regeneration's John Nordon.

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. For example, we highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including a new report by King’s College London that offers a pre-Covid snapshot of day centres in south London and a survey by the IMPACT project that the Housing LIN is associated with at the University of Birmingham in which they want to get your views of anyone connected with or working in adult social care.

Keep up-to-date with the latest housing and care themes and register here to receive other notifications on topics that matter to you 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 new lockdown arrangements now in place, remain safe.

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 28th May 2021. 

I am delighted to welcome Sally Taylor-Ridgway who this week joined the Housing LIN as our digital marketing, communications and events officer. With our online presence transformed during COVID-19, Sally will play a vital role in how we reach out to members, market our services, share sector news and resources and promote our free events. For example, this week, we held the inaugural Housing LIN Scotland HAPPI Hour session, featuring the Scottish Federation of Housing Association’s paper & recommendations on delivering Housing with Care & Support in the future.

On the publications front, we released two guest blogs: the first by Sue Weston reflecting on what she learned at last month's HAPPI Hour that explored the findings of the Archbishops of Canterbury's and York's recent housing commission report. The second is by ExtraCare Charitable Trust's Dr Michael Roberts and describes the work of their Engaged Lives project community building in their retirement villages, drawing on his ‘Steps to Connection’ guide..

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 from retirement housing developer, McCarthy Stone entitled, ‘Vision for Late Life in Britain’. We were also pleased that Professor Roy Sandbach, chair of our TAPPI Inquiry, was invited to present the early finding from this Dunhill Medical Trust funded project at this week’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People meeting, focusing on technology in later life.

Keep up-to-date with the latest on housing and care themes and register here to receive other notifications on topics that matter to you, 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 new lockdown arrangements now in place, remain safe.

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 21st May 2021.  

This week was #DementiaActionWeek and, to coincide, we held a highly informative HAPPI Hour session with Care and Repair England, Foundations and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists sharing their insights into the recent APPG Inquiry report on housing and dementia, especially in relation to the recommendations on retrofitting and adapting our existing homes.

We also released two guest blogs, the first by the research team at the University of Stirling on their scoping work on Ageing Well with Assistive Technology for Stonewater Housing Association (more below too) and, the second, by Tetlow King Planning’s John Sneddon on the possible implications of the government’s proposed Residential Development Property Tax and what it could mean for our sector.

And, if you live or work in the Kirklees area, we also welcome your input into a new project that our consultancy team are commencing into the housing needs and preferences of older people from ethnic minorities.

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 feature a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including two new reports. The first, the aforementioned paper by the University of Stirling on the Stonewater Housing Association’s INVITE project, funded by the Longleigh Foundation, on Ageing Well with Assistive Technology. The second a new report by the Centre for Ageing Better’s The Good Home Inquiry on housing quality in England and its impact on older people.

Check all the latest news and register here to keep in touch with all our alerts and 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 with our highly regarded consultancy services, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Stay connected and, above all, with lockdown easing even further, stay safe.

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 14th May 2021. 

This week was #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and, to coincide, we published a selection of guest blogs on mental health and the impact for older residents in retirement living from Adam Harwood at Central & Cecil, Thor Leaman at Clarion Housing Group and the Mental Health Foundation’s Jolie Goodman. Jolie talked about #MHAW21 and their Standing Together Wales project at this week’s HAPPI Hour alongside Angelina Morgan from Look Ahead and architect, Ekkist’s Ben Channon.

In other news, this week’s Queen’s Speech set out the government’s agenda for the year ahead. It included a commitment that “proposals for social care reform will be brought forward” but did not specifically refer to the long-promised Social Care Green Paper. However, there was mention of the call for integrated care systems in a new health and social care bill and the reform of planning.

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 feature a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including the social media day of action from the Housing Made for Everyone Coalition in support of the #ForAccessibleHomes campaign.

And, if you have been joining in our popular HAPPI Hour sessions, they continue next week with a free webinar to coincide with Dementia Awareness Week. Register to listen, watch and hear Care and Repair England, Foundations and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists share their insights into the recent APPG Inquiry report on housing and dementia, especially in relation to retrofitting and adapting our existing homes.

Check all the latest news and register here to keep in touch with all our alerts and 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 with our highly regarded consultancy services, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Stay connected and, above all, with lockdown easing even further, stay safe.

And Eid Mubarak to all who are celebrating.

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 7th May 2021. 

This week we published a new guest blog by Two Generation's Priscilla Yeung. The blog focussed on homesharing and intergenerational living, outlining why older people should take informed decisions about their housing options.

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 include a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including the results of the Centre for Ageing Better’s Good Homes Inquiry survey. It found that over half of those aged 50-70 polled said the main reason they wouldn’t be able to carry out all the accessible renovations is because they cannot afford it.

And, following the launch of the joint report of the RE-COV Study last week, our popular HAPPI Hour sessions continue next week with a free webinar to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week. Join the Mental Health Foundation's Jolie Goodman, Look Ahead's Chris Hampson and Angelina Morgan, and Assael Architecture's Ben Channon on a wide ranging session exploring the social, financial and environmental connections between housing, mental health and wellness.

Check all the latest news and register here to keep in touch with all our alerts and 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 with our highly regarded consultancy services, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Stay connected and, above all, with lockdown easing, stay safe.

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 30th April 2021. 

This week saw the publication of our ground-breaking 'state of the nation' report into how the retirement village and extra care housing sector in England responded to the impact of COVID-19 during the first two national lockdowns. The joint St Monica Trust and Housing LIN RE-COV study, funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, shows how housing with care operators' quick response to the pandemic controlled the spread of infection in their schemes and kept COVID-19 related deaths at a low, especially at a time when care homes were being hit so hard.

In this week’s HLINks, 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. In particular, we draw attention to a couple of new reports that we think will be of interest. They are one by Places for People and the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research on understanding supply, demand and investment in the market for retirement housing communities in England and another by Octopus Real Estate into the results of their consumer survey of the potential for retirement housing post the pandemic.

And, staying with Coronavirus, if you missed this, we have teamed up with Appello to undertake a survey to understand if COVID-19 has created a new perception on the use of technology in supported housing and specialist housing. Help us gather evidence on this by having your say before next week's deadline on 6 May 2021. We look forward to analysing all the responses and reporting on the results.

Lastly, our popular HAPPI Hour sessions continue next week with a free webinar on investing in 'care ready' homes for an ageing population. Supported by Winckworth Sherwood, we will be joined by Sir David Pearson, a past ADASS President and co-chair of SCIE's current commission into housing with care.

Check all the latest news and register here to keep in touch with all our alerts and 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

Finally, 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 assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Stay connected and, above all, with lockdown easing, stay safe.

Jeremy

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

Looking back to this time last year and a few weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, many housing and care organisations were quickly finding technology to be instrumental in their response to maintaining services and ensuring the wellbeing of customers. This week we announced an important new survey with Appello to help identify the perceptions towards technology within the supported housing and housing with care sector after operating with COVID-19 for over a year. Have your say by 6 May.

In this week’s HLINks, you can 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. In particular, we draw attention to a few new reports that we think will be of interest. They are: A new guide by Foundations (the national body for HIAs) on carrying out adaptations for children and young people with challenging behaviours; a Parliamentary Select Committee report on health and care in a digital world; a new report by The King’s Fund on health and integrated care systems can develop place-based partnerships; and a new blog by Social Care Futures on how we can build public support to transform social care.

And, in case you missed it, next week’s HAPPI Hour will be launching and reporting on the findings of a ground-breaking research that studied the impact of COVID-19 on retirement villages and extra care housing schemes across England. Not to be missed! And you may also be interested to learn that following our recent HAPPI Hour on the Archbishops of Canterbury and York housing report, the Archbishops have this week announced a follow up Commission on Reimagining Care.

Check all the latest news and register here to keep in touch with all our alerts and 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

Finally, 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 assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Stay connected and, above all, with lockdown easing, stay safe.

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 16th April 2021.  

This week Shakespeare Martineau released their new White Paper on Retirement Housing. Supported by the Housing LIN and sector partners, the paper shares findings from the YouGov survey they commissioned into the public’s perception about retirement housing. It makes interesting reading and the sector should take note.

In this week’s HLINks, you can 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. In particular, we welcome Look Ahead as a sponsor of the Housing LIN’s homelessness webpages and feature the new report by the Intergenerational Foundation on how COVID-19 has exacerbated housing inequalities, including between the young and the old. And for those of you interested in undertaking cutting-edge research, the Dunhill Medical Trust have now opened their call for proposals under the theme, ‘Building and delivering suitable living environments and communities for an ageing population’.

We are also delighted to draw attention to next week’s HAPPI Hour. We are hosting the first of two sessions that delve into the key issues and recommendations of the recent APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry report into housing and dementia. We are also thrilled that Action Deafness have generously provided BSL Interpreters so that our forthcoming webinars are now accessible to the deaf community.

Check all the latest news and register here to keep in touch with all our alerts and 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

Finally, 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 assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Stay connected and, above all, with lockdown easing, stay safe.

Jeremy

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 9 April 2021. 

This week we announced our 10th Anniversary independent of Government and expressed our sincere thanks to all those who have supported us to reach this significant milestone. To celebrate we have made some changes to our website’s homepage. Can you spot these?

We also signed up to the HoME Coalition’s letter to the Secretary of State for Housing, Robert Jenrick MP, which appeared in Monday’s Telegraph and calls for tougher accessibility standards for new homes.

The Housing LIN has also released a new HAPPI-related case study on Lifestory's (formerly PegasusLife) contemporary new retirement living development in Westminster, Chimes, shortlisted for the 2021 Housing Design Awards. 

In this week’s HLINks, you can 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. In particular, we feature the schemes shortlisted for this year’s Housing Design Awards which are either age-designated schemes or incorporate housing for older people as part of their plans. There are 14 in total.

We are also delighted to draw attention to next week’s HAPPI Hour. We are hosting a special session that will be shining a light on the recent housing report by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and looking at some of the policy recommendations and examples of practice, including St Brides’ Church at Trafford Housing Trust’s Limelight extra care and community hub. Not to be missed!

Check all the latest news and register here to keep in touch with all our alerts and 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

Finally, 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 assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Stay connected and, above all, with lockdown beginning to ease, stay safe.

Jeremy