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22/01/21

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 22 January 2021.

In this week’s round up, the Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative (LLARC) released their third interview with one of our #HLINSummit2020 guest speakers. In #HousingMatters, Gerry Foley of LLARC talks to Lifestyle by Engie’s Paula Broadbent about meeting the expectations, aspirations and solutions needed for housing in later life.

And, if you work in retirement villages or extra care housing, St Monica Trust have extended the deadline of the national RE-COV survey to the end of the month. We are keen to hear how your extra care housing or retirement villages have managed during the pandemic.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also take tour of other news and events on later life and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including details about the Cabinet Office’s Disability Unit call wanting your views on developing a national strategy to support disabled people in all aspects of their lives. And if you missed the important House of Lords Select Committee’s report on Healthy Ageing and Habinteg’s briefing on their research on accessible homes, both of which came out at the end of last week after we had compiled HLINks, we feature these too.

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

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe during the new lockdown.

Jeremy

This week’s essential news, views, resources and upcoming events from the Housing LIN

15/01/21

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 15 January. Is it me or does everyone feel like there has been a year’s worth of news in the first two weeks of 2021 already?!

In the light of this, we don’t want to overwhelm you so we produce HLINks so that you can dip in and out of the key issues that may be of specific interest to you.

This week, we published a guest blog on how Silva Homes’ has worked to support their older residents during the first two lockdowns. And, if you work in retirement villages or extra care housing, St Monica Trust have extended the deadline of the national RE-COV survey. We are keen to hear how your organisation has managed during the pandemic.

And further to last week’s #HousingMatters on Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative, this week they released Morya Riseborough’s interview with the Housing LIN SW Leadership Set member, Louise Drew of Shakespeare Martineau, on her take on the retirement living market.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also take tour of our curated round-up of other news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including the new Housing Forum report out today entitled ‘Older and Wiser’.

In other news, this week we kicked off the TAPPI (Technology for an Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation) Inquiry. Funded by Dunhill Medical Trust, over the next few months, we will bringing together a panel of industry experts and witnesses to explore the scope for a cross-cutting framework that ensures that technology supports an integrated approach to meeting the needs and aspirations of an ageing population.

Check these out and register here to keep in touch with all our news 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 our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe during the new lockdown.

Jeremy

This week’s essential news, views, resources and upcoming events from the Housing LIN

08/01/21

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A very Happy New Year to our readers from all of us at the Housing LIN and welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 8 January. This is the first issue of 2021.

In case you missed it, on New Year's Eve we released a month-by-month review of 2020 highlighting some of the key resources we were commissioned to write and/or published ourselves last year, along with a selection of activities and events we organised, including our successful virtual December Summit.

This week, we published a guest blog on almshouses to coincide with the report by RICS that came out last month, as featured in our final issue of HLINks in 2020. We are also promoting our first #HAPPIHour of 2021. This takes place on 28 January and will focus on almshouses in a lot more detail. Do join us.

Hot on the heels of our virtual Summit 2020, the Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative (LLARC) have released their first interview with one of our guest speakers. In #HousingMatters, LLARC talk to Margaret Edwards, the Housing LIN’s London chair, about our new CollaborAGE directory and also how she has age-proofed her home.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also take tour of our curated round-up of other news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including reference to the Health Foundation report on the links between health and housing and the impact of Covid-19.

Check these out and register here to keep in touch with all our news 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 our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe during the new lockdown.

Jeremy

This week’s essential news, views, resources and upcoming events from the Housing LIN

18/12/20

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 18 December. This is the last issue of 2020.

What a year it has been, dominated by Covid-19! Despite this, if you are a regular reader, you will know that we have been very productive on all fronts. However, we are taking a well-deserved winter news break and will be resuming HLINks on Friday, 8 January 2021.

But before we sign off for the year, this week has been another hive of activity. All the presentations and recordings from last week's virtual Summit are now available on our website.

We are also delighted to announce that we have teamed up with St Monica Trust to undertake ground-breaking research to study the true impact of Covid-19 on retirement villages and extra care housing schemes across England. Funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, the RE-COV project is surveying the sector to understand their experiences during the pandemic, including the effectiveness of measures taken to protect the health and well-being of residents and staff. Sticking with Covid, Professor Marmot's influential Review was published this week, setting out the national evidence on health inequalities exposed by the pandemic, including housing.

On the policy front, the inaugural Housing LIN TAPPI Inquiry's inception meeting took place with the first of four Inquiry sessions being held in the New Year. At the same time, it was the final hearing of the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry on housing for those living with dementia. Sponsored by Anchor Hanover, the Inquiry's report will be launched in February 2021.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read about our latest Inspirational Achievements – the latest chapter on the transformation of Central & Cecil’s Dora House into an affordable, contemporary 55+ offer in St John’s Wood. And also take tour of our curated round-up of other news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including reference to the new RICS report on almshouses, a model of community housing for an ageing population, and social enterprise Zinc’s report on start-up innovations in later life.

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 our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe over this festive period.

Jeremy

This week’s essential news, views, resources and upcoming events from the Housing LIN

11/12/20

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 11 December 2020.

All week we have been celebrating our rescheduled and reformatted Housing LIN Summit 2020: Reaching for the Top. With thanks to our sponsors and speakers, we have held 10 inspiring HAPPI Hour sessions spread over the 5 days to coincide with HAPPI Awareness Week. The feedback has been unbelievably positive. One delegate told us: “This is the best of all the virtual events I have attended since lockdown.”

Furthermore, we have broken our record of online attendance with 800 people signed up for our festive treats, nearly 3 times as many who would have attended our original annual conference in person at the end of March as Covid was taking hold of the nation. There are so many highlights from the week and, at the time of publication, the grand finale is still to take place with the last HAPPI Hour at 3pm today. It’s not too late to join us by simply signing up to it on our Events page.

On the publication front, we released an online illustrated CollaborAGE Directory, championing community-led approaches to housing and care. This builds on my previous blog and showcases a selection of stand-out collaborative approaches. In addition, we published a new guest blog by Tunstall Healthcare’s Zillah Moore on setting new digital ambitions and, stay on the technology theme, a new Viewpoint by Cambridge University's Phoebe Stirling and Gemma Burgess on what is the goal of advanced telecare provision for older people?

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including reference the new testing arrangements for staff and residents in extra care housing and a new ARCO report entitled, ‘Coming of Age: Better Housing Options for Older People’.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news 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

Jeremy

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04/12/20

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 4 December 2020.

With our week-long online Housing LIN Summit 2020 commencing on Monday to coincide with the first ever HAPPI Awareness Week, we are delighted that Lord Best wrote a guest blog for us reflecting on the tipping point for the HAPPI design principles.

Later this morning, Jeremy will be joining Housing Minister, Christopher Pincher MP, on the virtual Homes UK conference platform as the Minister announces the winner of the government's Home of 2030 competition for a future with age-friendly and zero carbon housing.

In other news, ADASS/Home Group published a briefing on transforming care and support for people with learning disability. We also responded to the government's consultation on accessibility standards and are extending the survey deadline for your feedback on RCOT's report, Adaptations without Delay, until 18 December.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including reference to a new Local Government Chronicle write up of a recent health and housing roundtable.

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news 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, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

You can also listen to #Jeremytalks… here

Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe

Jeremy

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27/11/20

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 27 November 2020.
It has been another bumper week of news and we are pleased to feature stories that we consider most relevant.

This week saw the government publish its Spending Review for the coming year. With much of the emphasis on post-Covid measures that will support the economy and stimulate growth, we are pleased to see some recognition of specialist housing and the allocation of £71m next year, via the Department of Health and Social Care, for the Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund. Furthermore, the Disabled Facilities Grants allocation for councils will rise to £573million in 2020/21, up from £505million this year. We now await further details on other possible capital allocations. However, the Review was disappointing for the social care sector with only an additional £300 million set aside for adult and children services nationally.

In other news, with new Tier arrangements coming into force from next week in the lead up to Christmas, the government has updated its Covid-19 and supported living guidance and also released its Covid Winter Plan which includes specific reference to the test and trace arrangements for staff and residents in extra care housing from December. Also see details of the accompanying series of webinars explaining how this will work.

In this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including reference to a new Action Deafness report on the benefits of designing and developing inclusively extra care housing for deaf people and those who hard of hearing.

And with 2 weeks to go, don’t forget to register for next month’s #HLINSummit2020. There are 10 #HAPPIhour sessions spread over 5 days week commencing Monday, 7 December. There is something for everyone! So, if you are interested in intergenerational living or want to find out more about designing accessible homes, want to understand what the digital future of the retirement market is or how can we embed greater leadership qualities to transform the housing and care offer for an ageing population, register now to attend our FREE virtual Summit.

Check this out on our website and register here to keep in touch with all our news 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, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe,

Jeremy

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20/11/20

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with the Housing LIN's weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 20 November 2020.

This week saw the government launch its Social Housing White Paper and its proposal for a housing charter. It places emphasis on greater tenant engagement and control. To this end, I am a fan of Living Labs and will be scrutinizing the consultation through this lens in relation to older adults and working age disabled adults to ensure that they have a voice.

In other news, we are delighted to partner Learning Disability England to publish an important new report today. Following our joint research, it outlines the key results from our work into the housing circumstances and opportunities for people with a learning disability and/or autism.

In this week’s HLINks you can also read about the Centre for Ageing Better’s ‘State of the Nation on Ageing 2020’ report and catch up on our curated round-up of other relevant news on later life living. To help you navigate, HLINks is segmented into key sections relating to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including reference to the HoME coalition's letter in last Saturday's Times where we signed up to the call for better Accessible Homes standards currently being consulted upon.

And at a regional level, to coincide with their online event, West Sussex County Council have published their health and housing Memorandum of Understanding. Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news 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, don’t forget to register for next month’s #HLINSummit2020. There are 10 #HAPPIhour sessions spread over 5 days week commencing 7 December. There is something for everyone! So, if you are interested in intergenerational living or want to find out more about designing accessible homes, want to understand what the digital future of the retirement market is or how can we embed greater leadership qualities to transform the housing and care offer for an ageing population, register now to attend our FREE virtual Summit.

And if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this issue of #HLINks, share learning about your work and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk.

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe,

Jeremy

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13/11/20

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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio where we unlock the latest news updates in our FREE weekly bulletin, #HLINks, week ending Friday, 13 November 2020.

This week we have been extremely busy on the external events front participating in a Lloyds Bank event in London on later life housing: chairing a session at a UKRI event with funded partners delivering the Healthy Ageing Challenge (keynote address: Andy Burnham); speaking at the CIH Eastern Summit and pre-recording a joint webinar with Shakespeare Martineau in conversation with Guild Living’s CEO about the later living market. We also issued a new Housing LIN guest blog by Cohabitas’ Nick Henley on the impact of homeworking in shared housing.

With a month to go, we are on the countdown for our #HLINSummit2020, week commencing 7 December. With 10 #HAPPIhour sessions spread over 5 days there is something for everyone. So, if you are interested in intergenerational living or want to find out more about designing accessible homes, want to understand what the digital future of the retirement market is or how can we embed greater leadership qualities to transform the housing and care offer for an ageing population, register now to attend our FREE virtual Summit.

And in this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including the result of the Centre for Ageing Better’s competition to find a better road sign icon depicting ageing. We really like the winning design – Strictly Ballroom!

Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox, including details about our week long, virtual #HLINSummit2020 on w/c Monday, 7 December to coincide with the first ever #HAPPIweek. 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, share the learning about your work with other Housing LIN members and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you and your organisation, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk

You can also listen to Jeremy talks… here

Best wishes, stay safe and, above all, keep connected.

Jeremy

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06/11/20

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With lockdown now in place, welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio where we unlock the latest news updates in our FREE weekly bulletin, HLINks, week ending Friday, 6 November 2020.

Ahead of the national lockdown in England and the restrictions put in place from Thursday, earlier this week we joined 60 other organisations in signing up to NCF’s open letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Minister for Care and DHSC officials calling for the default position to be that care homes are open for visiting which has been partly been addressed subsequently in the latest COVID regulations on care homes.

In exciting news, following in the footsteps of the HAPPI ‘care ready’ design principles and a growing interest in how new and emerging technologies can enable independent living at home, Dunhill Medical Trust are supporting a new Housing LIN Inquiry. The Technology to aid an Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation, also known as TAPPI, will officially kick off next month. Watch this space!

On the publication front, we released a new guest blog by Frances Wright, a resident of the award-winning Cambridge Cohousing development at Marmalade Lane, on how residents have coped living in cohousing during the pandemic.

And in this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including the HoME Coalition’s new Resource Pack to help anyone who is preparing to respond to the government’s consultation on accessible housing.