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Friday, 11 March 2022
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 11 March 2022.
In this week’s HLINks, we highlight a new End of Life Care, Suite of Resource co-produced by Octavia and St Christopher’s Hospice. The suite shares the learning and findings from their two-year long project with staff and residents in the West London housing association schemes, Better Lives, Better Endings. If you missed the launch during this week’s HAPPI Hour, the recordings, slides and feedback are now available here.
We also published two guest blogs. The first by Jenny Katurpulis MBE on her recent book about relational care and intergenerational living. And the second by Anchor’s Chief Financial Officer, Sarah Jones. Entitled, Conversations with our families and loved ones about our housing and care needs are vital as we grow older, it features their report published last week, Fragmented UK.
In other news that caught my interest this week, included:
- Foundations’ new guide Housing associations, home adaptations and independent lives: Finding ways to say yes
- Pride of Place Living Leeds wins William Sutton Prize for Social Innovation
- On Tuesday it was International Women’s Day and to coincide we drew attention to the Housing LIN’s case study about the Older Women’s Cohousing development in North London
- On Thursday, it was also Social Prescribing Day and we highlighted our CollaborAGE directory which includes a range of examples of social prescription within a housing context, and
- ARCO call for info: Calls for right to suitable housing for older people as review launches to assess shortfall
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Jeremy Porteus Chief Executive |
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Relational Care and Intergenerational Housing
In this Housing LIN guest blog, Jenny Kartupelis MBE, author and Director of Faith in Society reflects on her evidence about the nature of good practices that facilitate relational care and advocates the creation of intergenerational models as an approach that enables older people to contribute to their communities.
Conversations with our families and loved ones about our housing and care needs are vital as we grow older
This new Housing LIN blog by Sarah Jones, Chief Financial Officer at Anchor reflects on the report they published last week which looks into the changing nature of family dynamics in the UK, peoples’ expectations of later life and how retirement housing can help to tackle these challenges.
Better Lives, Better Endings: A suite of resources for staff in extra care housing
London housing and care provider Octavia and St Christopher’s Hospice launched a Suite of Resources during this week’s HAPPI Hour. The ‘Better Lives, Better Endings’ Suite of Resources was designed for care teams working in extra care housing to promote a better quality of life for people towards and at the end of their life, and utilises a suite of tools to help extra care teams provide better outcomes for residents during the last years of their life, including at the end of life.
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
The William Sutton Prize for Social Innovation winner announced
Pride of Place Living took home The William Sutton Prize for Social Innovation for their proposal for a scheme that will create a multi-generational, lifelong and inclusive LGBTQ+ affirmative community, particularly for people over 50.
With funding provided by Clarion Futures, the charitable foundation of Clarion Housing Group, Pride of Living Leeds will use part of the £20,000 prize money to deliver workshops which will give the Leeds LGBTQ+ community an opportunity to discuss innovative and inclusive ways to further help shape their plans to identify LGBTQ+ affirmative living spaces with their development partner.
Housing associations, home adaptations and independent lives: Finding ways to say yes
Brand-new guidance on delivering home adaptations in social housing, including how local authorities and housing associations can work better together, has been published by Foundations, the national umbrella body for home improvement agencies in England, in partnership with Anchor Hanover, Habinteg and Taylor Wimpey.
Written by Sheila Mackintosh and Rachel Frondiguon, the new guide proposes a different way of handling DFG applications.
Postdoctoral research associate post – deadline for application extended
The Open University is looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate as part of a new 3-year coproduced project, ‘Amar bari, amar jibon’ (my home, my life) that explores diversity and inclusion in later life environments focusing on Bangladeshi elders in East London.
This is an excellent opportunity to work with a dynamic research partnership of academic and community team members from The Open University, Bangla Housing Association and Housing LIN, led by Dr Manik Gopinath (OU).
Deadline for application: Thursday, 14 April 2022
Housing LIN microsite shares resources based on the findings from the Diversity in Care Environments (DICE) research study
Hosted by the Housing LIN, the resources on these Diversity in Care Environments (DICE) webpages are based on findings from the DICE research study, conducted by the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, in collaboration with the International Longevity Centre-UK and the Housing LIN.
This includes a policy report and an e-Learning Resource Tool.
What else caught our interest?
- Centre for Ageing Better feature: Neglecting owner occupied homes is a missed opportunity to level up
- PegasusLife/Lifestory Group article: We are so glad we made the move to The Vincent
- ARCO call for info: Calls for right to suitable housing for older people as review launches to assess shortfall
- ARCO blog: Reigniting town centres and high streets through older people's housing
- The ExtraCare Charitable Trust: What's the deal with retirement communities?
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly updates
As announced in February, and elaborated on by Sarah Allport, Head of Communities and Governance at The Dunhill Medical Trust (DMT) in her coinciding Housing LIN guest blog, a second phase of the TAPPI programme (TAPPI 2) will be launched at the TSA ITEC Conference on Tuesday, 29 March. Please note, the Housing LIN has secured their members a 40% discount on attendance fees at ITEC2022.
Whilst applications for a Co-production and Engagement partner are open until 18 March, next week DMT look forward to opening applications for an Evaluation and Shared Learning Partner.
- Co-Production and Engagement Partner: To support the delivery of the programme DMT are seeking applications for a Co-Production and Engagement Partner to work with us and the locality testbeds to ensure the views of people who draw on services, their families and carers and housing organisations are reflected in the programme and the Framework.
- Evaluation and Shared Learning Partner: The purpose of the Evaluation and Shared Learning Partner will be to work with key stakeholders to create a qualitative and quantitative benefits evaluation methodology and framework, capturing real-time data and evaluating during the programme as well as reporting the overall evaluation at the end of the programme. More details to follow.
What else caught our interest?
- Habinteg blog by the TCPA: Accessibility: an essential component of healthy homes & communities
- Appello Case study: Tips and advice from innovative housing provider, Central & Cecil on digital transformation
- UKRI blog: Attracting and training talent for the AI-enabled economy
- NHF news alert: new smoke alarm requirements and updates on the Social Housing White Paper. You may also be interested in next month’s HAPPI Hour that focuses on fire safety in specialist housing.
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
What caught our interest?
- HM Government: Operational guidance to implement a lifetime cap on care costs
- The Spec (Canada) Our changed world: How the COVID-19 pandemic may change seniors housing
Scotland
HAPPI Hour - Housing LIN Scotland presents, in partnership with SFHA
This HAPPI Hour has been rearranged for Tuesday, 26th April 4:00pm – 5:15pm
Following November's TAPPI Inquiry report launch and focus Scottish example of housing and care technology, we are pleased to host this HAPPI Hour session in partnership with Scottish Federation of Housing Associations to take a look at the Scottish government's recent Digital health and care strategy.
What else caught our interest?
Events
Watch, Listen & Learn
You are invited to join our forthcoming HAPPI Hours!
Forthcoming HAPPI Hours
- HAPPI Hour - Forging a new partnership to transform housing and care-tech choices on Tuesday, 22 March 2022, 4:00pm – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Fire safety in extra care housing on Tuesday 4 April, 4:00pm – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Housing LIN Scotland presents, in partnership with SFHA on Tuesday 26 April, 4:00pm – 5:15pm
View all previous HAPPI Hours – Recording, presentation slides and chat report available.
And you may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN
- National Academy for Social Prescribing Webinar: Addiction and Social Prescribing on Tuesday 22 March 2022, 3pm-4pm
- TSA ITEC Conference Monday 28 – Tuesday 27 March 2022. Early bird offer is available until Friday 11th Feb. Please note: The Housing LIN has secured their members a 40% discount on attendance fees at ITEC2022.
In next week’s HLINks...
Look out for The Dunhill Medical Trust’s advert to recruit an Evaluation and Shared Learning Partner for the next phase of Technology for an Ageing Population Panel for Innovation TAPPI2 – from principles to implementation.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.