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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio where we unlock the latest news updates in our FREE weekly bulletin, #HLINks, week ending Friday, 13 November 2020.
This week we have been extremely busy on the external events front participating in a Lloyds Bank event in London on later life housing: chairing a session at a UKRI event with funded partners delivering the Healthy Ageing Challenge (keynote address: Andy Burnham); speaking at the CIH Eastern Summit and pre-recording a joint webinar with Shakespeare Martineau in conversation with Guild Living’s CEO about the later living market. We also issued a new Housing LIN guest blog by Cohabitas’ Nick Henley on the impact of homeworking in shared housing.
With a month to go, we are on the countdown for our #HLINSummit2020, week commencing 7 December. With 10 #HAPPIhour sessions spread over 5 days there is something for everyone. So, if you are interested in intergenerational living or want to find out more about designing accessible homes, want to understand what the digital future of the retirement market is or how can we embed greater leadership qualities to transform the housing and care offer for an ageing population, register now to attend our FREE virtual Summit.
And in this week’s HLINks, you can also read our curated round-up of other relevant 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 the result of the Centre for Ageing Better’s competition to find a better road sign icon depicting ageing. We really like the winning design – Strictly Ballroom!
Check this out and register here to keep in touch with all our news alerts and other notifications of your choice, sent direct to your inbox, including details about our week long, virtual #HLINSummit2020 on w/c Monday, 7 December to coincide with the first ever #HAPPIweek. And remember you can also follow us via our Twitter feeds: @HousingLIN, @HousingLINews and @HLINConsult
Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted, share the learning about your work with other Housing LIN members and/or discuss how our consultancy services can assist you and your organisation, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk
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Best wishes, stay safe and, above all, keep connected.
Jeremy
This week’s Housing LIN blog
COVID-safety living and working from home are reshaping house sharing
This new blog, written by Nick Henley of Cohabitas, delves into the effects that the initial COVID-19 national lockdown had on our home-working habits, and the learning points that can be taken from experiencing it.
Take part in this government consultation
Have your say on accessible design
The Housing LIN is proud to be a founding member of the Housing Made for Everyone (HoME) coalition. It is calling for urgent action to tackle the UK’s accessible housing crisis by raising the mandatory building standards.
The government is currently consulting now on options to make new homes in England more accessible for older and disabled people. Deadline is 1 December. Support HoME Coalition and have you say using the resource pack and template provided.
Coronavirus Update
With a national lockdown and new restrictions in place in England until 2 December, check out our Coronavirus Info Hub for the latest government guidance, a range of Housing LIN practice briefings for the sector and links to other useful information and websites.
However, in short, the new guidance on restrictions includes:
- Stay at home order with exceptions for work purposes, childcare, education, medical or social care activities
- Preventing the mixing of people you do not live with
- Closing certain types of businesses and venues
- It now states that those at risk to COVID-19 are those 'over 60 or clinically vulnerable'
- A note has been added that guidance on care home visits
- The Furlough Scheme has been extended
And in other news
- DHSC Extra Care and Supported Living Covid19 testing update:
- Office for National Statistics findings: Coronavirus and the social impacts on disabled people in Great Britain
Lastly, do post or reply to questions on our discussion forum. It allows you to share information, raise issues and ask questions to solve a tricky issue. For example, can you share your organisation’s COVID-19 risk plan under the 2nd lockdown or information about how you are engaging with residents remotely?
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
Centre for Ageing Better: Dancing couple design wins age-positive icon competition
The competition set up by the Centre for Ageing Better, in partnership with Public Health England, aimed to find a new icon to portray older people in a positive light.
Following the creation of the final designs, the age-positive icons will be made publicly available for unlimited use by any individual or organisation by February 2021.
In other News
- Shakespeare Martineau webinar: Building for a Healthy Life recording
Opinion pieces and blogs:
- NLA news item: London faces intergenerational housing shortfall
- Audley blog: Celebrating later living success stories
- TLAP blog: I have a place I can call home and can live the life I want
Design, Construction and Technology
- NICE guidance: What good looks like for digital records in adult social care
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Digitalising the Age-Friendly City: Insights from Participatory Action Research
- RIBA report: Greener homes - Decarbonising the housing stock
Opinion pieces and blogs
- Habinteg article: Charities & housing organisations call on public to back proposals for better homes
- Newcastle Helix: The World's Most Intelligent Kitchen
- Urban Splash blog: Creating well-designed homes and workspaces that will stand the test of time
Mental Health, Learning Disability, Health and Care
Take part in an online survey on the end of life needs of older people with severe frailty
The PALLUP Study - Improving home-based care for older people with complex care needs
This England-wide study uses a two-round online survey to establish consensus on the specific palliative needs (i.e. needs related to the final years of life) of older people with severe frailty who are living at home (home being defined here as domestic dwellings, including residential care settings, but not including long term care facilities with on-site nursing or medical care).
In other news
- Policy Exchange report: Saving a lost decade - How a new deal for public health can help build a healthier nation
- University of Birmingham report: Shifting Shapes: how can local care markets support personalised outcomes?
Dementia
Lead Practitioner in Care Apprenticeship (Dementia Pathway)
3 Spirit UK are delighted to announce a partnership with Life Story Network to deliver this unique Apprenticeship which is designed for both career development and service improvement. The funded programme supports the priorities of the housing sector as it focuses on enablement, strength based approaches and dementia risk reduction. The programme features the use of technology in dementia care to support enablement and tackle loneliness. The programme is delivered over 18 months and apprentices achieve a level 4 Diploma in Adult Care.
Housing and Dementia
The 3rd session of the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People’s Inquiry into the housing experiences of people living with dementia to took place last week. The final session will then take place next month before the final report launch event in February 2021. Lord Best also spoke about the Inquiry at this week’s ‘Dementia Inclusive by Design’ virtual conference.
While the APPG’s current call for evidence is formally closed, do email us any examples of innovative practice at: dementia@housinglin.org.uk
Planning tracker
Older People’s Care Development – Local Development Plan Monitoring
In association with Tetlow King Planning, this document monitors current local authority planning consultations that may be of interest for those seeking to develop housing for older people. The tracker is updated fortnightly.
Wales
Welsh government guidance on COVID-19 can be found at: https://gov.wales/coronavirus
In other News:
- Welsh Government statistics: Homelessness in Wales, 2019-20
And following our excellent Housing LIN Cymru HAPPI Hour session last Tuesday on social, environmental and digital inclusion with the DICE Project, United Welsh and Quattro design, you can watch/listen again and download the slides here.
Scotland
Scottish government guidance on COVID-19 can be found at https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/
In other News:
- Community Land Scotland report: Home Delivery - Community Led Housing in rural Scotland
- UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence: Delivering more homes and better places Lessons from policy and practice in Scotland
Events
Housing LIN Summit 2020
Our annual conference is back on and we have already reached over 500 participants!
Spread across the week of 7-11 December, there are ten free HAPPI Hour sessions with two must-join topical sessions each day to choose from celebrating outstanding innovation, latest research findings, leading practice developments and sector thought-leadership, including a look at the sector transformation that has taken place over the last 9 months as a result of Covid-19. And because it’s virtual, places are unlimited. You can now choose as many of the sessions as you want to go to.
Browse Housing LIN Summit 2020 programme and select your choices below:
HAPPI Awareness Week
And to coincide with Summit 2020 next month, we are also designating the week as the first ever #HAPPIweek. We want to further raise awareness over the 5 days about the virtues of designing ‘care ready’ accommodation and age-friendly housing services. We are delighted that Lord Best has agreed to kick the week off with guest blog looking back to the first HAPPI report 12 years ago and to outline his thinking of what’s in store for the next dozen!
Join us for HAPPI Hour
We are sad to report that our autumn #HAPPIhour programme has now called last orders. We are now working on our rescheduled annual conference in December but look forward to reopening up our popular HAPPI Hours for you in the New Year. We have an exciting programme ahead.
Other events
We are pleased to be involved/support the following virtual events:
- Healthy Ageing: Vision for our Futures - 02/11/2020 till 30/11/2020
- SHMA Talks: Future proofing Later Living - 17/11/2020 4:00pm till 4:45pm
- West Sussex Housing Partnership event - 20/11/2020
- Northern Housing Consortium: FROM STABILISATION TO INNOVATION: Future Proofing TEC across Health, Housing & Social Care - 24/11/2020
- Healthy City Design 2020: International Congress & Exhibition - 30/11/2020 9:00am till 03/12/2020 5:00pm – N.B: There is a 15% discount offer for Housing LIN members and associates. Please include this coupon code: HCD2020HOUSINGLIN15DC at the checkout when booking online at the HCD 2020 event hub
Next week
We look forward to speaking at the West Sussex Housing Partnership conference.
Lastly, the Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.