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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 8 October 2021.
This week we were thrilled to announce that we are recruiting for the 2nd cohort of our Future Leader programme. Sponsored by Thirteen Group, we are looking up to 10 early career professionals to join our exciting programme next year. Deadline for submissions is Friday, 5 November at 5pm. We look forward to announcing the successful applicants at our Virtual Summit in early December.
In other news, the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, speaking at the Conservative Party Conference this week said, "health and social care begins at home". He went on to call for seamless integration between health and social care and the need to embrace innovation and digitisation. To coincide, two timely Housing and Ageing Alliance (HAA) blogs reveal how crucial housing is to at home care and support.
The first by HAA chair and Care & Repair England CEO, Sue Adams, sets out how integration of housing can help hospital systems and deliver greater benefits to residents. And, in the second HAA blog, I write about technology-enabled care and housing and the need for better digital integration across housing, health and social care, something that the forthcoming TAPPI inquiry report will spell out in greater detail later this month. You can book your free place for the online launch event on the afternoon of 26 October, here.
Staying with technology, this week we also published a Housing LIN blog by Housing 21's Laura Francis called 'Let's discover IT' in which she shares information on the programme she has developed for residents and staff.
And if you missed this week's HAPPI Hour with Dr Anna Dixon and guest speakers from MHA, Community Circles, ExtraCare Charitable Trust and Age UK Bristol on 'Reimagining Care' as part of the Archbishops' Commission she is chairing, you can watch the session again, here. And next week's HAPPI Hour is on Passivhaus and low carbon housing. Register now!
Other new resources that caught our interest this week included:
- A ‘quick read’ practical help for discharged Manchester hospital patients
- Appello case study: Orbit realise the benefits of smart living solutions in their independent living properties
- Ready Generations blog on their intergenerational nursey project
- A Practical Look at International Living by Street Wise International, reflecting on last week’s #HAPPIHour – rewatch here.
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If you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk
Stay connected and, above all, remain safe.
Jeremy
New Housing LIN products
New Housing LIN guest blog - Let’s Discover IT – free interest resources to inspire residents
Digital Inclusion is high on the agenda for most Extra Care and Retirement Housing associations. This Housing LIN guest blog, by Laura Francis, Neighbourhood Services Manager, Housing 21, introduces a website where resources are readily available where groups of residents could explore the internet, have fun together, learn something new or revive old interests.
Future Leaders Network: Housing LIN opens call for applications.
With thanks to Thirteen Group’s support, we want the new network to be a small, diverse and dynamic community of younger, early career individuals.
We are now looking for up to 10 committed people with an interest in housing for an ageing population to be part of our second intake.
This is a fantastic and valuable opportunity for successful applicants to learn through the lived experience of a selection of industry leaders about what/who inspired or influenced them and what qualities they looked out for to enable them to then develop their own leadership styles and credentials.
Applications close on Friday 5th November 2021 at 5pm.
Hard-wiring digitally connected care and independent living
In this blog Jeremy Porteus, vice-chair of the Housing & Ageing Alliance and Chief Executive of the Housing LIN, emphasis the need for connectivity to make the most use of telecare and telehealth services and highlights the opportunity created when digital inequality, digital inclusion and digital integration is addressed.
And, in case you missed it, we have made the exciting decision to change our Twitter handle from @HousingLINews to @HLINComms to better reflect the scope of information we share.
Coronavirus
Check out current and relevant sector guidance on the pandemic on our Coronavirus Info Hub.
You can also find out more about the recent launch of the St Monica Trust/Housing LIN RE-COV Study, on COVID-19 and its impact on the retirement village and extra care housing sector.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
What caught out interest?
- Flexibility is the key to the future for housing providers, by David Done
- Reside Housing Association joins Progress Housing Group
- C&C appoints Sam Scharf as Director of Housing and Customer Services
- A Practical Look at International Living by Street Wise International, reflecting on last week’s #HAPPIHour – rewatch here.
- Ready Generations blog on their intergenerational nursery project
- Tony Tench, Housing 21's deputy chief executive, explores how cohousing models can support and house older people in areas of high deprivation.
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
Centre for Ageing Better report – Best foot forward
A new report, published by the Centre for Ageing Better, looks at the barriers people in their 50s and 60s face to walking and cycling.
It argues that action is needed from national and local government, service providers and health systems to get people moving.
What else caught our interest?
- Mental Health Foundation: Tackling digital exclusion in older people
- Inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in the built environment: A study of architectural design practice article by Matteo Zallio
- Appello case study: Orbit realise the benefits of smart living solutions in their independent living properties
- How digital is transforming the delivery of preventative care, Legrand Assisted Living and Healthcare
- Cassius Tech Rollout Makes Suffolk Punch
- PAS 6463 Design for the mind – Neurodiversity and the built environment - Guide
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
Practical help for discharged Manchester hospital patients improves homes, health and lives
An integration in Action ‘quick read’ shows how linking practical housing help to patients being discharged from Manchester hospitals improves safety and health of holder and disabled residents. Sue Adams, CEO of Care & Repair England, shared in a blog her thoughts on this ‘Inspiring Integration’.
What else caught our interest?
Housing and Dementia
APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry Report
Did you miss this recent APPG Inquiry report?
Watch and listen again to the launch of the new report on housing and dementia here and be inspired by Wendy Mitchell as she shares her personal story about living with dementia.
And did you miss our HAPPI Hour sessions on housing and dementia last month? The recording and presentations are now available.
Wales
For Welsh government guidance on COVID-19, visit: https://gov.wales/coronavirus
Housing LIN Cymru welcomes a new chair
The Housing LIN Cymru welcome Joanne Kirrane as our new chair in Wales. Joanne has worked across health, social care and housing for over 25 years. She is based in South Wales and is the Executive Director of People, Homes and Communities in Melin Homes. Find out what Joanne’s next steps are for her and the Housing LIN in Wales.
What else caught our interest?
- Older People’s Commissioner for Wales report - State of the Nation: 2021
Scotland
For Scottish government guidance on COVID-19, go to https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/
What else caught our interest?
Events
Sign up to our Autumn HAPPI Hour sessions
Have we got an exciting programme of HAPPI Hour live-streams to quench you thirst starting this month. Please note the change of the day of our sessions from Thursday to Tuesday!
- HAPPI Hour - Passivhaus for Active Ageing - 12/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - Intergenerational living is the future – where are the opportunities? - 19/10/2021 2:30pm till 4:45pm
- HAPPI Hour - Tap into the TAPPI Inquiry report launch - 26/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - From Moving On to Moving In - 02/11/2021 4:00pm till 5:15pm
AND YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN THESE OTHER EVENTS SUPPORTED BY THE HOUSING LIN:
- Healthy City Design 2021 - 11/10/2021 till 14/10/2021 - Early Bird concessions available until 1st October, with further discount offered to Housing LIN members.
- NDTI webinar: Considering and meeting the sensory needs of autistic people in housing 21/10/2021, 2:00pm
- Retirement housing: Why is the support of housing with care so limited in Scotland and what will it take to boost it? - ShakespeareMartineau webinar 03/11/2021, 9:30am till 10:15am
- Knowledge exchange workshop - Creating inclusive communities: Social inclusion in housing with care and support for older people - 04/11/2021, 10:00am till 12:15pm
IN NEXT WEEK'S HLINKS
Next week we look forward to supporting the Healthy City Design 2021 Conference commencing Monday 11 Oct, 2021, and hosting Tuesday's HAPPIHour - Passivhaus for Active Ageing - looking at the different initiatives being taken in England, Wales and Scotland in relation to mainstream and specialist housing for older people.
We'll also be sharing a new joint Housing LIN guest blog by Roland Karthaus, Matter Architecture, and Stephen Burke, United for All Ages entitled: 'If not now, when? The opportunity for intergenerational living in town centres has never been greater'.
And finally, ahead of this year's annual summit, we will be announcing and thanking our headline sponsors for their support.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.