This week’s HLINks: 7 - 11 December 2020
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’.
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Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe
Jeremy
What’s in news next week?
And in next week's HLINks, our last in 2020, we will be publishing a new #InspirationalAchievements from C&CHT on the latest developments at their new development in St John’s Wood. We also have a guest blog by Jenny Pannell on almshouses to coincide with a new report by RICS. And also watch out for the notification of a new survey we will be undertaking with partners on the retirement village and extra care housing sector’s experiences and learning from the challenges of Covid.
Please also note that next week’s HLINks will be the last of 2020 and we will be resume our weekly bulletin on Friday, 8 January 2021.
Lastly, the Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.