Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly bulletin, week ending 15 January 2021 in which we feature the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.
Launched today, this new guide by The Housing Forum looks to address society’s failure to provide suitable homes for the ageing population by setting out a range of practical suggestions with 16 case studies demonstrating diverse solutions and inspired thinking.
While not housing specific, this outcomes and improvement framework, commissioned by the LGA and the ADASS, aims to help directors of adult social services work with their colleagues and partners to identify how they can improve how they support adults with learning disabilities and autism.
We are pleased to report that the first TAPPI Inquiry session took place this afternoon. Funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust and chaired by Professor Roy Sandbach, the new Inquiry brings together a panel of industry experts and witnesses who will give evidence and review the scope for a cross-cutting framework that ensures that technology supports an integrated approach to meeting the needs and aspirations of an ageing population.
Further to last month’s announcement of a new ground-breaking research project to study the true impact of Covid-19 on retirement villages and extra care housing schemes across England, the deadline for completing the RE-COV survey has been extended by a week. Take part and have your say by Friday, 29 January 2021.
This new guest blog Housing LIN explores how Silva Homes, a Bracknell based housing association has supported their customers in independent living to remain independent during the first two lockdowns. It highlights the ways in which they help address overcome rising loneliness and isolation and the impact on residents’ wellbeing to alleviate pressure on local health and social care services.
In their latest instalment of #HousingMatters following the Housing LIN's Summit 2020, Moyra Riseborough of the Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative talks with Louise Drew, Partner at Shakespeare Martineau solicitors about rethinking older people's needs and aspirations for later living.
Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly bulletin, week ending 8 January 2021, the first of the year. In it, we open the door to the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.
The Journal of Integrated Care is preparing a Special Issue on Intermediate Care. Their call for papers is now open with submission deadline by 30th April 2021.
This paper by The Health Foundation sets out the links between housing and health and explores the inequalities in housing across different groups and types of tenures. It then consider the impact of COVID-19 on housing so far, future risks and possible ways forward.