HLINks: New Housing LIN blog, new resources, and news from the specialist housing sector
This week we published a new blog about the right to accessible housing. We also have new resources, and our usual roundup of news from the housing with care and specialist housing sectors.
Housing LIN Blogs
An accessible home is a human right
The latest Housing LIN guest blog argues that accessible housing is a human right.
Lauren Robinson, chief executive of Darlington Association of Disability, writes that “an accessible home is, undoubtedly, the basic requirement for anyone to be independent”.
The blog argues that Disabled People’s User Led Organisations (DPULOs) have a role to play in providing housing that meets the needs of people with disabilities. The Social Model of Disability shows that housing has a key role to play in reducing the barriers to equality that people with disabilities face.
New Resources
Hospital to a Healthier Home
This Care & Repair Cymru paper provides an evaluation on the winter pressures pilot last year, linking health and housing for older people.
It describes how the Hospital to a Health Home case worker service started, what type of interventions have been provided to patients and hospital staff, costs, benefits and the difference it has made to patient well-being, patient flow, quicker safe discharges of care, and preventing re-admissions.
Shared Ownership Week
Housing LIN resources on shared ownership
This week was Shared Ownership week and the Housing LIN has several resources on shared ownership.
- Older Person's Shared Ownership: A Shared Experience - the Low Down is a Housing LIN case study looking at how shared ownership can work in an extra care setting.
- Mixed Tenure in Extra Care Housing is a technical brief on developing and managing mixed tenure extra care housing, including shared ownership.
- Accessing shared ownership for people with disabilities in Wales: An overview of using the HOLD scheme is a case study including information on shared ownership.
- The Housing LIN’s DHCS Funded Extra Care Scheme Directory includes examples of extra care schemes with shared ownership options.
Falls Awareness Week
Health Benefits of Housing with Care
This week was also Falls Awareness Week. Falls are the largest cause of emergency hospital admissions for older people. Over 65,000 people aged 60+ in England, Wales and Northern Ireland had a hip fracture in 2016.
The Housing LIN’s recent report Identifying the health care system benefits of housing with care, written for Southampton City Council, shows that housing with care can help to reduce the incidence of falls among older people.
Housing and Ageing
- Peagus Life: Why move to the coast?
Design, Planning, and Technology
- Habinteg: Inclusive design principles are central to quality
- Centre for Ageing Better: 'Smart homes' are sometimes posited as the solution to our social care crisis. But what are the limitations of using technology as a substitute for care?
- The Planner: 30,000 later living homes needed a year
- Design Council: Responding to the government’s Ageing Society Grand Challenge
Health, Care, and Housing
- Independent Age: Homing in on free personal care
- Radian blog: Social prescribing: A route to wellbeing
- The King’s Fund: Healthy New Towns: how the NHS can help create healthy places
- 24Housing: Opportunities for healthy housing
- Foundations: National Healthy Housing Awards 2019
- Health and Social Care in the Community journal: 'You have got to stick to your times': Care workers and managers' experiences of working in extra care housing
Events
Housing LIN Events
Events Promoted by the Housing LIN
- Meeting expectations with digital telecare
- Is the UK institutionally ageist? - Housing 21 annual conference
- HEALTHY CITY DESIGN 2019 Designing for utopia or dystopia? People and planetary health at a crossroads
- The annual RCOTSS-Housing Conference 2019
Next Week
Next week, watch out for our Housing with Care ‘State of the Nation’ survey. Working with EAC, we want to take the pulse of planned sector growth over the next five years.
To coincide with International Day of Older Persons (1st October), we will be releasing a new #InspirationalAchievements featuring Legrand. And, the way telecare saved the life of a Your Homes Newcastle resident.
With Thanks
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.