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Friday, 29th April 2022
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.
In this edition, we draw attention to Policy Connect's new report, ‘Smarter Homes for Independent Living: Putting people In Control of their Lives’ that looks at how smart home technology is a huge opportunity for disabled and older people to take control of their lives, to live independently with more choice and control over their lives.
This week, we also celebrated Global Intergenerational Awareness Week 2022, a campaign connecting everyone who is passionate about everything intergenerational. The Housing LIN has happily signed up to show our support by sharing a selection of resources that you may find useful on intergenerational and multi-generational living.
We also remind readers that the deadline to supply evidence to the current APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry, ‘Making retirement living affordable: the role of shared ownership housing’ is 4 May 2022.
And remember, there’s still time to apply to become one of The Dunhill Medical Trust’s TAPPI2 “testbeds”. The deadline for submissions is 16 May 2022.
And in other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:
- Housing 2022: Stress Awareness Month speaker interview with Jeremy Porteus
- Llywodraeth Cymru Welsh Government Strategy for an ageing society: Delivery plan
- The Church of England: Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care - Listening and Engagement Exercise
- Centre for Ageing Better: Creating age-friendly homes in Greater Manchester
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Jeremy Porteus Chief Executive |
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Global Intergenerational Awareness Week 2022
Global Intergenerational Week is a campaign connecting everyone who is passionate about everything intergenerational. It is now in its third year and this year it is bigger and better than ever #GoingGlobal.
The campaign celebrates good practice, ideas, moments and opportunities local to us where different age groups come together, and intergenerational friendships can be formed!
We showed our support by sharing a selection of resources that you may find useful on intergenerational and multi-generational living.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
How can technology help older and disabled people live more independently in their homes?
This new Policy Connect report, ‘Smarter Homes for Independent Living: Putting people In Control of their Lives’, highlights how smart home technology is a huge opportunity for disabled and older people to take control of their lives, to live independently with more choice and control over their lives.
Commission chair Sir Paul Carter CBE and author Clive Gilbert discuss good practice case studies of the impact smart home technology can have.
This report outlines tangible actions that government and industry can take to support independent living and improve the quality of life of disabled and older people and their families, while also reducing financial pressures on the NHS and the social care system.
What else caught my interest?
- Partnership Bulletin: Later Shift blog by Paula Broadbent
- Housing 2022: Stress Awareness Month speaker interview with Jeremy Porteus
- Centre for Ageing Better: Creating age-friendly homes in Greater Manchester
- Learning disability today: Does how we talk about disability and neurodiversity matter?
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update
Whilst applications to become a ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and ‘Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partners have now closed and applicants are notified of the outcome of shortlisting, remember that the call to become one of the four TAPPI2 locality ‘testbeds’ remains open until 16 May 2022, 5pm.
For more on this exciting programme that aims ensure that the evidence gathered by the Inquiry in TAPPI1 is built upon and used to create a widely accepted Framework which embeds the recommended TAPPI Principles within a transformational change programme, visit the TAPPI2 microsite, hosted by the Housing LIN.
Inside Housing Development Awards
As we reported last week, the IHDA awards are now open and offer the opportunity to celebrate the very best residential developments across the UK over the past year. Categories include best older people’s development and best healthy homes development.
Entries are free of charge and are open until midnight on 12 May 2022.
What else caught our interest?
- The Home of 2030 Embedding technology-enabled housing and care in our future homes – ITEC Conference PPT now available by Jeremy Porteus, CEO at Housing LIN
- Architecture: ‘Dignity-enabling’: St Albans Housing
- Deadline: Wanted: Budding inventors dreaming up tomorrow’s world
- Inside Housing: What does the digital switchover mean for the housing sector?
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
New House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee Inquiry issues call for evidence
This Committee has launched an inquiry and published a call which seeks evidence of the ‘invisibility’ of adult social care, in particular “lifting the veil” on the impact for people with care needs and carers. It also seeks to explore how people are meaningfully involved in the design and delivery of care services.
Deadline for submissions is 27 May 2022.
What else caught our interest?
- The Church of England: Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care - Listening and Engagement Exercise
- Centre for Ageing Better: Age-friendly Communities can help ‘Level Up’ places for everyone
- The National Care Forum: NCF launches ICS resouces
Dementia and Housing
Open call: Take part in a University of Manchester survey into experiences of supporting your spouse, partner or family member living with dementia to live at home during the pandemic.
Deadline for having your say is 30 June.
And, in association with the Dementia & Housing Working Group, we are delighted to be hosting a HAPPI Hour session on 31 May.
This HAPPI Hour session will also provide an opportunity to demonstrate the Dementia and Housing padlet, a ‘go to’ dementia information hub, for use by policy makers, housing providers and developers, health and care professionals, those living with dementia and their carers, the home improvement sector, and building environment supply chains.
What caught our interest?
Wales
Llywodraeth Cymru Welsh Government Strategy for an ageing society: delivery plan
This delivery plan, published by Llywodraeth Cymru Welsh Government aims to raise awareness of older people’s rights, tackle age related poverty, improve public services and spaces and reduce loneliness by promoting volunteering.
The Delivery Plan refers to housing under ‘Aim 2: Improving local services and environments’ with specific reference to funding for extra care housing from April 2022 to March 2027 by means of the Integrated Care Fund.
What caught our interest?
- Llywodraeth Cymru Welsh Government: Ambitious plan to end long waiting times and transform planned care
- Llywodraeth Cymru Welsh Government: £1.1 million investment to champion older people as Wales becomes Age Friendly
Scotland
A big thank you to Tuesday’s HAPPI Hour speakers who joined us for a session on the use of technology to support older and disabled people, in partnership with Scottish Federation of Housing Associations.
Missed this? The recording, presentation slides and chat report are available to download now.
What caught our interest?
Events
Watch, Listen & Learn
You are invited to join our forthcoming HAPPI Hours!
In recognition of the success of our HAPPI Hour sessions, we are delighted that the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, have come on board as a sponsor of our online events.
We also excitedly anticipate May’s programme of HAPPI Hour sessions. As featured below, we have a great selection of events approaching!
- HAPPI Hour – Diversity in Care Environments: A better understanding of social inclusion of older people on Tuesday 3 May, 4:00 – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Community-led housing and how it can contribute to tackling loneliness on Tuesday 10 May 4:00 – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Standing Together Project – Supporting older people’s mental health and wellbeing through communities on Tuesday 17 May 4:00 – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Re-framing Retirement: Integrated Retirement Communities on Tuesday 24 May 3:30 – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Dementia and Housing Padlet launch event on Tuesday 31 May 4:00 – 5:15pm
And you may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN
- Centre for Ageing Better webinar, ‘Creating age-friendly, inclusive homes and communities’ on 12 May 2022
- National Academy for Social Prescribing webinar, housing organisations as anchor institutions on Thursday, 21 April 2022.
- Property Week - Later Living Conference 2022: Unlocking the potential of the later living market on Thursday 23rd June 2022.
- SALUS Healthy City Design conference Monday, 10 October – Tuesday, 11 October - Call for papers now open
In next week’s HLINks
We look forward to next week’s HAPPI Hour – Diversity in Care Environments: A better understanding of social inclusion of older people on Tuesday, 3 May 2022.
And, next week is Dying Matters Awareness Week and we will be putting the spotlight on some of our Bereavement & End of Life Care resources, including the Octavia and St Christopher’s CARE suite of resources which was recently launched at one of our HAPPI Hours.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.