This week's HLINKs: 1 - 5 November 2021

Welcome to #Jeremytalks (opens new window) and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks (opens new window), 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. To further promote this year's annual conference, we have also created this 30 seconds animation. Please book your places and share details with your colleagues and networks. We want to beat the 900 people who joined us during last week's Summit! 

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

• ARCO have launch 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.

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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 (opens new window) to support you, email  ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk (opens new window)

Stay connected and remain safe.

Jeremy