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Dying Matters Awareness Week 2022

This year, Dying Matters Awareness Week took place between 2 - 6 May 2022 and gave us the opportunity to question if we're #InAGoodPlace to talk about death, dying and grief? In support, we have shared a selection of Bereavement & End of Life Care resources, including the recently launched Octavia and St Christopher’s Better Lives, Better Ending Report.

• Bereavement & End of Life Care resources

Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing

A window of opportunity: Delivering prevention in an ageing world

This International Longevity Centre (ILC) highlights clear health and economic benefits to investing in preventative healthcare throughout people’s lives. However, despite repeated commitments to prioritise prevention and the creation of a joint task force involving finance and health ministers, action continues to lag. 

That's why over the last two years ILC have engaged expert stakeholders from around the globe to identify concrete actions that can be taken to progress the prevention agenda and shared various recommendations in this report.

• Read this report

What else caught my interest?

• UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge: The SMART Grant is here
• Chartered Institute of Housing: CIH responds to Government plans to revive Right to Buy for housing association tenants
• CPA New attitudes to old age: Extra care housing — the current state of research and prospects for the future
• CPA New attitudes to old age: Value systems as motivational forces for the suppression of ageism towards older people amongst young adults
• Learning Disability England: We are looking for people to talk to. ‘Renting your own place’ research project.
• The ExtraCare Charitable Trust: 4 ways ExtraCare are building community in retirement

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.

• Explore TAPPI2

Inside Housing Development Awards

The IHDA awards are still 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.

• Make an entry

What else caught our interest?

• APPG Carbon Monoxide Group: Government to consider impact of UK energy efficiency plan on poor households
• TSA/TLAP: Why the Future of Technology Enabled Care is in the Hands of the User and Carer

Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability

Healthy ageing: applying all our health

This guide, published by the Office for Health and Improvement & Disparities, is part of 'All Our Health', a resource which helps health and care professionals prevent ill health and promote wellbeing as part of their everyday practice. This information will help front-line health and care staff use their trusted relationships with patients, families and communities to promote the benefits of healthy ageing.

This guide also recommends important actions that managers and staff holding strategic roles can take.

• Read guide

What else caught our interest?

• Learning Disability England: Funding the gap – Helping Self-Advocacy Grow
• Disability Unit: Remap: the organisation making things possible
• CPA New attitudes to old age: Self-funders — still by-standers in the English social care market?
• CPA New attitudes to old age: State of the art: what is out there and what can we learn?

Dementia and Housing

Open call: Take part in a University of Manchester survey into the 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.

• Attend this HAPPI Hour

What else caught our interest?

• McCarthy Stone Foundation: Dementia Awareness Week Grants – Applications now open

Scotland

What caught our interest?

• SHN: Two female Scottish property leaders launch own later living brand

Events

Watch, Listen & Learn

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.

As featured below, please explore our forthcoming HAPPI Hour webinars:

• 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

Next week’s HLINks

Next week we share two new Housing LIN Consultancy reports. The first on smoking and social housing and a second on the housing needs and preferences of older people from ethnic minorities in a local government district of the North of England. In addition, we are eagerly awaiting the publication of a new Appello guide on Digital Telecare.

We also look forward to next week’s HAPPI Hour - Community-led housing and how it can contribute to tackling loneliness where our speakers will share the lessons and findings from the DLUHC commissioned research and report, 'Those little connections’: Community-led Housing and Isolation’.

And finally, it’ll be Mental Health Awareness Week and we will draw attention to a range of recourses located on our Mental Health webpages and an upcoming HAPPI Hour, Standing Together Project.

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.