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Welcome to this week's Housing LIN news. We have a series of 3 new linked Housing LIN Viewpoints authored by Dr Katey Twyford looking at extra care housing for people with dementia. We also have news from across the sector including items about home building, increased funding for housing associations, and housing and health, alongside updates about our upcoming events.
Housing LIN Viewpoint
Extra Care Housing for People with Dementia
This week we published a series of linked Housing LIN Viewpoints on the subject of extra care housing for people with dementia. Written for us by Dr Katey Twyford, and based on research carried out for a Doctoral Research Study, these three viewpoints look at assessing when extra care housing is suitable for people with dementia, and how provision can be improved.
The first viewpoint discusses when extra care housing is an appropriate choice for someone with dementia, and what factors might trigger someone living with dementia in extra care housing to move out.
The second viewpoint considers an extra care scheme as a social world and how the different social groups in extra care housing can help or hinder someone living well in extra care housing.
The third and final viewpoint reviews how extra care housing operators can approach quality management to keep residents and tenants at the heart of their service within a complex regulatory environment.
Based on original research carried out with service users and service providers, the viewpoints include policy and practice recommendations for improving care provision for people with dementia.
Media Matters
- Letter to the Guardian - Britain’s housing crisis: slow progress and a radical quick fix
- Sensory Impairment and Housing - "Echoes put me off": How blind people choose a new home
Housing and Dementia
- Social Care and Dementia - Towards a better future for people with dementia
- Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease - How Soon Is Soon Enough To Learn You Have Alzheimer's?
- Health Technology - How to design a website for someone affected by dementia
- Dementia Survey - Walking with purpose in Extra Care and Retirement Housing: not all who wander are lost - Scheme level survey
Health and Housing
- Planning Health New Towns - Putting Health into Place: Introducing NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme
- Integrating Health and Housing - Health Creating Practices: Shining a spotlight on housing initiatives
Housing
- Increased government investment in housing associations - Housing associations to get £2bn investment over next ten years
- Right to Buy - CIH supports suspension of Right to Buy
- Private Social Renting - New housing minister: market for ‘private social rent’ should be explored