This week's HLINks: 16 – 20 May 2022
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.
This week, we celebrated Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Action Week, a national campaign to encourage people to ‘act on dementia’, and drew attention to last year’s APPG on Housing with Care for Older People Inquiry report, ‘Housing for people with dementia – are we ready?’ and a selection of resources about dementia-friendly housing.
Our newest guest blog follows new research, conducted in collaboration between ASH and the Housing LIN, and is written by Sarah Davis who highlights social housing providers as valuable partners for health and social care, working to improve the health and wellbeing of people and communities.
And following Mental Health Awareness Week, we were delighted to be joined by Jolie Goodman (Mental Health Foundation) and Miranda Quinney (University of South Wales) who presented on the Standing Together Cymru and shared project findings on loneliness in later life. You’ll be pleased to know that the recording and associated presentation slides are now available, here.
In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:
- APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry: Call for information
- World Health Organisation report: Global Report on Assistive Technology (opens new window)
- Department of Health and Social Care plan: Mental health and wellbeing plan: discussion paper and call for evidence (opens new window)
- ADASS report: Waiting for Care and Support
- University of Salford: New project to help develop age-friendly communities in a post pandemic world
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Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.
Jeremy Porteus
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.