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Assessment of the evidence of financial benefits provided by Almshouses

Commissioned by The Almshouse Association, this report sets out the evidence of the financial benefits provided by almshouses using evidence from existing data and from primary research with almshouses. The assessment of this evidence indicates that almshouses provide a range of financial benefits to the health and social care economy as well as wider financial benefits.

This report is intended to assess the evidence of the financial benefits provided by almshouses primarily for an audience of local authorities, the NHS, Government, policy makers and other stakeholders with an interest in housing and accommodation for older people.

• Read the report

New Inspirational Achievement - Creating a feeling: Springfields leaps forward in extra care

Recently opened, this extra care housing scheme with emh offers 65 affordable state-of-the-art homes and support for later life in Ashby-de-La-Zouch (Ashby), the popular Leicestershire spa and market town in the heart of the National Forest.

Find out how this development meets the urgent need for high-quality, modern homes with support, and explore its positive impact on place and people, as it maximises wellbeing and independence, community engagement, environmental gains and local social impact.

• Find out more about the extra care development, Springfields

Join us this HAPPI Awareness Week from Monday 6, December 2021 – Friday 10, December 2021

This year's Summit is also the 10th anniversary of the first ever Housing LIN annual conference and coincides with HAPPI Awareness Week, celebrating the benefits of designing care-ready accommodation and age-friendly housing services. 

With many HAPPI-inspired winning entries in this year's Housing Design Awards, we want to further raise awareness over the 5 days and celebrate the benefits of HAPPI with you. Find out how you can get involved!

• Get involved!

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.

• Find out more

Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing

A place we can call home: A vision and a roadmap for providing more options for housing with care and support for older people

A new report, published by the Commission on the Role of Housing in the Future of Care and Support, concludes that an overhaul is needed on how housing with care and support is planned, commissioned, designed and delivered. 

The report includes a number of recommendations for national government, for local authorities and local partners, and for developers and providers.

It paints a picture of what the route to achieving more choice, more consistently provides could look like.

• Read this report

Putting the ‘care’ in Housing-with-Care

This report, published by ARCO, has been produced to analyse the quality, efficiency and benefits of social care provided by Integrated Retirement Community operators in the UK, and reveals why Integrated Retirement Communities are key to avoiding care system collapse and tackling care worker crisis. ARCO says its report highlights the urgent need to expand the provision of Integrated Retirement Communities in the UK.

ARCO is also calling on the Government to act quickly to set up the cross-department task force on housing-with-care that it says it is considering, and to include measures to expand housing-with-care in the forthcoming social care White Paper.

• Read the report

Making Homes Fit for Ageing and Caring: The consequences of COVID-19 for the housing, health and wellbeing of older people in England

This report, published by Care & Repair, reviews the consequences of COVID-19 and associated ‘lockdowns’ for older people in England with particular reference to their housing, health and well-being, and considers the post-pandemic housing policy implications.

The report concludes that the pandemic has impacted on everyone’s lives, but the effects on older people, who have suffered the vast majority of resulting COVID-19 deaths, have for many been catastrophic. These effects will ripple through the ageing population for years to come, and in ways not yet clear or quantifiable.

• Find out more

What else caught our interest?

• Almshouses: the historic model, fit for the future, by Nick Phillips, Chief Executive, The Almhouse Association.
• Ed Warner, Founder and CEO at Motionspot, to make a RIBA Radio appearance next Tuesday, 23 November, as part of the lunchtime Disability Panel.

Design, Construction, Planning and Technology

What caught our interest?

• Why neighbourhood design quality matters
• Adopting universal design standards in Australia
• Greater Manchester maps age-friendly digital innovation

Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability

What caught our interest?

• The 2nd episode of Ed Balls' BBC documentary on Inside the Care Crisis
• Salus TV: Building a Healthy and Health-Creating Society
• LGA: A series of case studies on how councils are addressing loneliness
• Health of some ethnic minority groups in the UK equivalent to White people at least 20 years older, according to a new study.
• International Journal of Integrated Care: Integrated Health and Social Care in England: Ten Years on
• NIHR case studies: Co-production case studies: A retrospective review of case studies carried out within ARC KSS
• University of Stirling, Healthy Ageing Impact Fellow job / secondment opportunity  
• Social Care Futures: Living in a Place we call Home webinar on Tuesday, 14 December 2021 from 10am
• Social Care cap could expose poorer homeowners to ‘catastrophic’ costs

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.

• Background info and access the final report

And did you miss our HAPPI Hour sessions on housing and dementia last month? The recording and presentations are now available.

What else caught our interest?

• DemECH survey extended until 22 November. The Association for Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester are current undertaking a project to find out how best to support people living with dementia in Extra Care Housing.

Wales

For Welsh government guidance on COVID-19, visit: https://gov.wales/coronavirus

Scotland

For Scottish government guidance on COVID-19, go to https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/

events

Sign up to attend this year's Housing LIN Summit 2021 - A Festival of Ideas

• More info and bookings

And you may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN

• ADASS - The last of the EUSS webinars, an opportunity to hear the latest guidance from the No Resource to Public Funds (NRPF) Network - 17/11/21, 24/11/21 and 08/12/21.

In next week's hlinks

Following ARCO's recent announcement on redefining extra care housing and Integrated Retirement Communities, we look forward to publishing a guest blog by their Executive Director, Michael Voges, explaining the background research that informed their decision.

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