This week’s HLINks: 21 - 25 June 2021

Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks (opens new window), week-ending Friday, 25th June 2021 to coincide with World Wellbeing Week.

This week Age Friendly Ireland launched its new online resources to future proof housing for an ageing population. Drawing on the expertise of the Housing LIN, the website provides guidance of features to include in a lifetime adaptable and age friendly home, alongside case studies, research, funding information and design templates.

In other web developments, as part of our commitment to the national Health and Housing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Housing LIN has created a new resource page that’s showcase examples of how local strategic health, care and housing partners have come together to produce their MoUs and agree their action plans.

We have also published a guest blog by Nathan Rhodes from Look Ahead Care and Support on their approach to Psychologically Informed Environments and how it is crucial in delivering high quality support services across a variety of support settings.

And yesterday, close to 200 people signed up to join our latest HAPPI Hour session on appealing adaptations and aspirational future-proofed apartments for later living. We heard from Ed Warner, founder of Motionspot, on accessible design principles and innovative products and from Shirley Hall, the Head of Research, Innovation and Customer Insight at ExtraCare Charitable Trust, on now they have partnered with Motionspot to instal a show apartment in Solihull. We were then joined by Dr Yvonne Fullwood and Millie Brown from the Centre for Ageing Better’s evidence team who shared details about their current The Good Home Inquiry.

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 published by the Housing and Dementia Research Consortium, hosted by the University of Worcester, that outlines recommendations that providers of housing with care should adopt to better support people living with dementia in Extra Care Housing.
Findings from a new NIHR SSCR funded study by Kent University on delayed transfers of care and how they were reduced by an increase in local home care and care home provision
A letter from ADASS and partners to the Prime Minister calling for urgent social care reform
NHSX’ draft strategy on reshaping health and social care data
A new guide by the Campaign to End Loneliness on bereavement during Covid

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

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Stay connected and, above all, with further lockdown arrangements delayed for the time being, remain safe.

Jeremy

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.