HLINks archive

Welcome to #JeremyTalks,

This week, we were delighted to share the updated Housing LIN Factsheet (No. 35), by Angeli Ganoo-Fletcher, Director, and Helene Saulue, Associate at PRP. It highlights the vital role of well-designed gardens in enhancing residents' quality of life, promoting physical and mental well-being, and mitigating cognitive decline.

We also drew attention to TSA's TEC Theatre, taking place at this month's Housing 2023 in Manchester, where we'll be supporting the delivery of a number of practical sessions that will give you the insight and know-how into how Technology Enabled Care within housing plays a vital role in empowering individuals to ensure they have the correct support in place to live the life they want.

Other items that took my interest:

• Collaborative Housing and Innovative Care (CHIC) Practices: An international exchange, Barcelona: YouTube Videos 
• Housing with Care awards: Neil McCarthy, Octavia Care, wins the Workforce Development Award
• DHSC: Safe care at home review
• Government response to the HSCC report and the Hewitt Review on integrated care systems
• TAPPI cast - 16 June
• Government breaks pledge to consult on improvements to housing adaptations
• Age of Majority report: Closing the gap between consumer expectations and community offerings in senior living

And looking further ahead, I'm delighted to have been invited to present at Homes England’s forthcoming Summer Learning Programme, Why planning for later life is important, on 19 July. 

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

Welcome to #JeremyTalks,

This week, we published a new Inspirational Achievement by Tunstall Healthcare reflecting on the launch of their PNC IP and Lifeline Digital™ IP dispersed telecare alarm unit that have been brought to market ahead of the phased move from analogue to digital communication across the UK.

I was also delighted to be invited to Barcelona as part of the Collaborative Housing and Innovative Practices in Care (CHIC) project team to participate in an international exchange on collaborative housing and innovative care practice. This was followed by attending various sessions at the International Social Housing Conference and networking with speakers who had presented on senior cohousing in Belgium, France, Spain and Holland. Look out for a selection of guest blogs and future HAPPI Hour sessions with them!

What else caught my interest this week?

• CACHE blog: a review of recent Supported Housing evidence review paper
• Property Week article: Solving the later living housing crisis
• Ageing Better feature: Neighbourhood networks model community based support
• Inside Housing roundtable: What can the housing sector do to create age-friendly homes and communities
• Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group: COVID-19, Inequality and Older People: Everyday Life during the Pandemic
• Taylor & Francis book: Digital Ageism - how it operates and how to tackle it
• The Fabian Society’s Policy Report – Support Guaranteed: The roadmap to a National Care Service

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

This week, we released two new Housing LIN Viewpoints. The first, with the Older People’s Housing Task Force in mind, is written by Tony Watts OBE, writer and co-founder of the Age Action Alliance, on the consumer's perspective on housing an ageing population. 

And, to coincide with Dementia Awareness Week in Scotland, our next Viewpoint by Cardiff University's Rebecca Oatley and the University of Worcester’s Teresa Atkinson presents valuable insights from The DemECH project.

On Tuesday, we held a captivating HAPPI Hour session with Brunelcare on Supporting People in Social Housing and the Cost of Living Crisis. If you missed it, the recording is now available here. 

And on Thursday, we held our Housing LIN Cymru Steering Board meeting in Pontypool, Wales. We were joined by guest speakers Mary Morgan and Neil Penny from NHS Gloucestershire/Gloucestershire County Council and Gareth Morgan from Hywel Dda Health Board.

Other items that caught my interest:

• Scottish Government Dementia Strategy launched: Everyone’s Story
• Age Scotland report: Making Adaptations Work for Older People in Scotland
• Inside Housing: Lord Best on the Older People’s Housing Task Force
• Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research: Digital Exclusion and the Cost of Living Crisis
• NHS Confederation: Integrated care strategy, health and wellbeing board and joint forward plan guidance: what you need to know
• University of Birmingham: Citizen Leadership: Co-creating integrated care
• TAPPI cast: this week's project update

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

This week, we were pleased to publish a new Housing LIN Case Study, written by Stephen Maraj, Sales Manager at Saffron Housing Trust, on their mixed tenure extra care housing scheme, Swallowtail Place. 

We were delighted to publish the case study ahead of Tuesday's HAPPI Hour webinar, Shared Ownership for our Ageing Population (SO HAPPI), with Lord Best and a fantastic line-up of guest speakers! Missed it? Watch the recording here!

This week also marked the first North East ADASS event, "My Home, My Care, My Way", held in Durham in collaboration with our TAPPI partner, Tec Services Asspcoatopm (TSA). The event focused on integrated care, proactive services, community response, co-production, and housing innovation.

In addition, with inadequate national dementia friendly housing policy direction and limited investment in dementia training for housing professionals, the Dementia and Housing Working Group relaunches as the only national group taking this agenda forward.

And, as long-term supporters of the Housing LIN, we were delighted to announce that St Monica Trust officially comes on board as a corporate sponsor of the Housing LIN’s South West webpages and newly reformed South West region Leadership Set. Read the full story here.

What else caught my interest:

• United St Saviours: Almshouse Longevity Study - Can Living in an Almshouse Lead to a Longer Life?
• Housing design awards: Round-up of shortlisted HAPPI schemes
• Habinteg research survey call: Demonstrating the Social Value of Wheelchair User Homes
• Chartered Institute of Housing briefing: The impact of the cost of living and older people
• The Open University: The value and practice of relationship care with older people
• SAGE journal: The Relationship Between Physical Housing Characteristics, Housing Accessibility and Different Aspects of Health Among Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Revie
• SAGE journal: Digitalising the built environment for all generations: A new paradigm for equity and inclusive age-friendly cities and communities
• TAPPI Cast: 26 May

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

This week, the government announced the members of the Older People's Housing Task Force, led by Professor Julienne Meyer. I'm excited to share that I am one of these members! With its mission to promote purpose-built retirement housing for older people, I look forward to sharing my expertise from the HAPPI process and the TAPPI project. As we approach the digital switchover in December 2025, it's more important than ever to prioritise the integration of smart technology into the initial design of homes for all.

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), I had the pleasure of attending the launch of the ISPA research project in Glasgow and the official opening of the Bield Digital Hub in Linlithgow. And, further to GAAD, we also drew attention to Mental Health Awareness Week and Dementia Action Week with the publication of a new blog by Jane Jones, Senior Occupational Therapist at Stoke on Trent City Council, discussing a 3-year project focused on designing level access shower schemes for individuals after a dementia diagnosis.

We were also delighted to release a second guest blog by Joan Rutherford, Chair of the National Network of Older People's Housing Champions. In the blog, Joan discusses the theory of inclusive design and explores what this looks like in practice as not all urban designers are trained in inclusive design principles.

What else caught my interest:

• Homes England strategic plan 2023 to 2028 on homes and place
• Department of Health digital working in adult social care report 'What good looks like'
• ARCO: Leasehold Plus: The next step for home ownership in IRCs
• NHS England guidance: 2023/2024 Disabled Facilities Grant allocations released
• NHS England: Intercultural dementia care
• TAPPI Cast: this week's project update inc Bield in Scotland
• CACHE report: the evidence for housing support

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

This week, we published two new guest blogs. The first is written by Steve Sadler, Head of Technology Strategy at the TSA, where he discusses some of the major topics that emerged from the TAPPI workshops. The second blog is by Gavin Bashar, UK Managing Director at Tunstall Healthcare, and highlights the significance of educating the next generation of housing professionals about the advantages of technology.

We were also delighted to host a HAPPI Hour in association with Learning Disability England and the University of York for the official launch of research on supporting people with learning disabilities to rent their own homes. A big thank you to all our speakers for their insightful contributions. Recording available soon. 

Other items that caught my interest this week include:

• TAPPI Cast - 12 May 2023
• National Audit Officer report: Investigation into supported housing
• Everon: Is Your Risk Register Up To Date?
• Housing 21 announces completion of Minterne Apartments in White City

And, if you haven't already, secure your spot at next week's HAPPI Hour in association with Winckworth Sherwood on regenerating new homes and place-shaping and the procurement and development process. We are so pleased to be joined by session chair, Charlotte Cook, Notting Hill Genesis' Robert East, Central Bedfordshire Council's Tobin Stephenson, bpha's Matthew Berry, and Winckworth Sherwood's David Emery.

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

This week I was delighted to welcome Charity Bank as a sponsor of the Housing LIN. Their mission to support ethical investment aligns with our goal to exemplify innovative and accessible housing solutions for an ageing population. With their generous support, we can continue to bring together the housing, health, and social care sectors, and provide access to invaluable resources and events that promote well-being and enhance the quality of life for older adults and individuals with learning and physical disabilities.

Ahead of our HAPPI Hour webinar ‘Shared Ownership for our Ageing Population (SO HAPPI)' on Tuesday, 23 May 2023 we published a new blog by Stephen Maraj, Sales Manager at Saffron Housing Trust. In this Housing LIN guest blog, he describes the work undertaken by Saffron Housing Trust to promote and market their new, mixed-tenure independent living development, Swallowtail Place, including Older Persons Shared Ownership.

And, if you haven’t booked you places, details about the next HAPPI Hour session on Thursday, 11 May (note change of day!), registrations are open. This HAPPI Hour webinar will see the official launch of research on supporting people with learning disabilities to rent their own homes. 

Read below for more news and events from the sector, including our weekly TAPPI cast.

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk

This week, we were thrilled to announce plans for the 3rd cohort of our Future Leaders Programme! Thanks to Inspired Villages Group, we're now seeking 8 committed people with an interest in housing for an ageing population to be part of our third intake.

Congratulations to all schemes that made the Housing Design Award shortlist. We're delighted to be a sponsor of the HAPPI-inspired category and look forward to reporting more on this next week. 

In other news, this week's HAPPI Hour explored how supported housing providers can help the NHS with some of its greatest challenges, welcoming speakers from Look Ahead Care and Support and NHS England. Missed it? Rewatch it here!

Other things that caught my interest this week include:

• National Housing Federation report: True cost of overcrowding
• Two Generations case studies: Examples of homesharing
• TAPPI Cast: weekly update on the TAPPI project

And, our next HAPPI Hour webinar takes place on Thursday, 11 May (note the change of day!) when we'll see the official launch of research on supporting people with learning disabilities to rent their own homes in association with Learning Disability England and the University of York.

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

This week, we were delighted to announce that United St Saviour’s Charity, a charitable organisation dedicated to providing community investments and provision of almshouses for older people, became a new corporate sponsor of the Housing LIN, and exclusive sponsor of our almhouse webpages.

And, following a brief intermission after our successful virtual Summit earlier this year, our HAPPI Hour webinar series has resumed this week. Our inaugural session for the Spring/Summer series focused on the Archbishops Reimagining Care Commission. If you missed it, you can now rewatch it here. 

Other items that caught my interest this week include:

• Independent Age campaign video: From Arlene Phillips to Tony Blackburn on a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing
• World Health Organization guide: National programmes for age-friendly cities and communities
• The Times article: Why is downsizing so difficult?
• National Housing Federation report: Supported Housing development survey results
• UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenges funded projects: examples of Healthy Ageing in Place
• Everon: YouTube case study
• The King’s Fund feature: Moving from exclusion to inclusion in digital health and care
• Resolution Foundation briefing note: How people living in poor quality housing have fared during the cost of living crisis
• Housing 21 news item: Launch of new housing academy

And, in case you haven't secured your spot yet, we're pleased to provide information about our upcoming HAPPI Hour session on Tuesday, 25th April in collaboration with Look Ahead Care and Support, How can supported housing providers help the NHS with some of its greatest challenges?

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.

This week, we put the spotlight on the HLIN Cymru Steering Group by publishing our new Welsh prospectus. The prospectus showcases the group's work and aspirations and extends an invitation to organisations interested in housing for older people in Wales to become part of our family of sponsors.

In other news, today is the deadline for organisations to express interest in becoming an exclusive sponsor of our external news management at the Housing LIN. This is an ideal opportunity to be closely associated with our news platform, e-bulletin, and other information-sharing activities. Don't miss out!

This week, I participated in productive meetings with the HoME Coalition, advocating for greater accessibility in new homes up to at least Part M4 (2), and the Dementia & Housing Working Group, promoting greater awareness of dementia in our sector.

Other items that caught my interest this week include:

• UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge news: Funding for 16 projects announced
• Healthy City Design 2023 conference: Call for papers
• RIBA coalition fire safety campaign: call for 2 staircases for residential buildings above 18m
• Frontiers in Sociology research article: Socio-gerontechnology-New perspectives on the digital transformation of later life
• Taylors & Francis research article: A 3-UK-nation survey on dementia and the cost of living crisis: contributions of gender and ethnicity on struggling to pay for social care
• Inclusion London article: The Social Model of Disability
• BBC Sounds feature (1:39:23): Searching for an accessible home
• Community Living blog: The foundations to build a real home
• The TAPPI Cast: for the latest news from the TAPPI projects

Finally, we're always eager to hear your stories and receive your case studies and thought leadership on good practices. If you would like to contribute, email us at: comms@housinglin.org.uk.