HLINks: #ECHvideo, sector news + events
Hot on the heels of the RIBA Age-Friendly Housing publication we publish our fifth film in the 'Spotlight on Extra care series'.
It focuses on several case study developments with outstanding or innovative design features, including Tree Top Village in Newcastle, Clement House in Bracknell, Mariner's Park in Wallasey and The Orangery in Bexhill-on-Sea.
Housing and older people
- Foundations: HIA 2018 Awards announced
- Care and Repair England: Small but Significant: The impact and cost benefits of handyperson services
- Centre for Ageing Better article: Action needed on housing as government data confirms rise of older households and many homes still failing basic standards
- Centre for Ageing Better blog: Stigmatising and 'clinical' products put people off making vital changes to keep their homes safe
- Evermore blog: Why community matters
- Planning & Building Control article: Accessible housing standards: confusion could lead to lack of delivery
- Lichfields insight: Solutions to an age old problem - planning for an ageing population
- APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform: Robust debate over retirement ground rents and event fees
- Law Commission: Leasehold Enfranchisment
- 24 Housing item: Alpha Living: The reports of sheltered housing's death are greatly exaggerated
- CfAB: Housing - one of the eight domains of age friendly
Ageing
- Independent Age new campaign: Ageism plus
- Place, Belonging Manchester item: Beyond 'Older Age': A Photo and Story Collection to Illuminate the Individual
Supported housing
- Bromford MyPlace blog: It's all about whatever is right for you at that point in your life
Health and Housing
- Healthy New Towns on BBC R4: Ebbsfleet DC's Kevin McGeough highlights the health dividends on World at One (at 38.10)
Other Housing
- MHCLG Commons Select Committee inquiry report (Grenfell): Independent review of building regulations and fire safety: next steps
- MHCLG: publish new National Planning Policy Framework
Dementia
- House of Commons briefing paper: Dementia - policy, services and statistics
- C&C: Tovertafel in its care homes
Health and Care
- NHS England guidance: Better Care Fund operating guidance published
- RIBA shortlist: Maggie's Oldham has been shortlisted for best architecture 2018 (read dRMN's case study for the Housing LIN)
- NHS England pooling budget: Transforming Care Programme: template model agreements
Technology and telecare news
- Appello and Longhurst Group get switched on: Longhurst's Spire Homes invests in digital care
- Govuk: Combating rural isolation with technology: apply for funding
Homelessness
- St Mungo's report: On my own two feet
Wales
- Response to the Report of the National Assembly for Wales Public Accounts Committee Report: The Welsh Government's Supporting People Programme
Scotland
- Urgent call to adapt housing for ageing population: Read more
Events
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