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Friday, 13 May 2022
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.
In this week’s HLINks edition, I would like to draw attention to two new Housing LIN reports. The first, a collaborative effort with Action of Smoking and Health to outline the case for reducing rates of smoking in the social housing sector as part of social landlords’ health and wellbeing activity and the action needed to achieve this. The second, in partnership with Kirklees Council we reveal how preferences in ageing ethnic minority population affects housing (and housing related support) needs across the district.
We also celebrated Mental Health Awareness Week by drawing attention to a selection of mental health and loneliness and later life resources, including the recently launched Diversity in Care Environment Learning Resource Tool. We also hosted a HAPPI Hour on how community-led housing and how it can contribute to tackling loneliness.
On the TAPPI front, applications to become a ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and ‘Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partners have now closed and we look forward to revealing the successful applicants soon. Remember there’s still time to apply to become one of the four TAPPI2 locality “testbeds”. Closing date is Monday, 16 May 2022, 5pm.
In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:
- Appello: Managing the Transition to Digital Telecare: How to engage your customers
- Greater Manchester Older People's Network: Housing options information for older people in Greater Manchester
- NICE: Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness
- Public Policy Project: Integrating health and social care: a national care service
- Mental Health Foundation: All the lonely people
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Jeremy Porteus Chief Executive |
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Housing LIN celebrates Mental Health Awareness Week
The official theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week was loneliness. To celebrate, we drew attention to a selection of Mental Health and Loneliness and Later Living resources. We were also delighted to a host a HAPPI Hour on Community-led housing and how it can contribute to tackling loneliness. Thank you to all those who attended. One attendee said the session was “Thrilling - interesting, exciting, well organised, and particularly brought to life by Alison's lived experience”. To find out more and to hear about Alison’s lived experience, you can now revisit this HAPPI Hour.
Smoking and social housing: Supporting residents addressing inequalities
The Housing LIN was pleased to collaborate with Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) to outline the case for reducing rates of smoking in the social housing sector as part of social landlords’ health and wellbeing activity and the action needed to achieve this. This report includes improvements that could be made at a national level to better support local action, while equipping the public health and social housing sector with the information required to progress action on smoking.
Older People from Ethnic Minorities in Kirklees: Housing Needs and Preferences Study
The Housing LIN feels privileged to have worked alongside Kirklees Council on the ‘The Older People from Ethnic Minorities (OPEM) in Kirklees: Housing Needs and Preferences Study’ that revealed how preferences in ageing ethnic minority populations affects housing (and housing related support) needs across the district. The findings will help inform decision making and the delivery of mainstream and specialist housing & support services suited to older people from ethnic minorities.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
Tips on how to reduce loneliness in later life
Loneliness for people in later life can be a real challenge on a daily basis. This Mental Health Foundation (MHF) 'how to' guide contains tips on how to look after your mental health when feeling lonely and how you can get involved in local and national initiatives to reduce loneliness. People in later life helped create these tips through various focus groups held by the MHF.
What else caught my interest?
- Greater Manchester Older People's Network: Housing options information for older people in Greater Manchester
- Inside Housing article: Queen's Speech: the new housing bills explained
- ExtraCare Charitable Trust article: Retirement wellbeing: choosing health and choosing life
- Centre for Ageing Better: What does ageism look like?
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
FREE GUIDE: ‘Managing the Transition to Digital Telecare: How to engage your customers’
Are you planning a move to digital telecare? Your customers/residents have a crucial role to play in the successful rollout of new systems within your organisation.
In this guide by Appello, you'll learn when to engage your customers and how your aims with this will change at different stages of the project. It looks at how to overcome barriers to engagement, plus what to focus on to generate interest and excitement. There are also tips for planning an engagement programme and pitching your communications correctly.
TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update
As mentioned last week, applications to become a ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and ‘Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partners have now closed and we look forward to revealing the successful applicants soon.
Remember there’s still time to apply to become one of the four TAPPI2 locality “testbeds”. Closing date is Monday, 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.
What else caught our interest?
- UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence: A cost-benefit analysis of a traditional Glasgow tenement net zero retrofit
- The Lancet article: Home modifications and disability outcomes: A longitudinal study of older adults living in England
- MedTech article: The role of medical devices in a 21st century social care system - Med-Tech Innovation
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness
This guideline, published by the National Institute for Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE), covers providing integrated health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness. It aims to improve access to and engagement with health and social care, and ensure care is coordinated across different services. The recommendations aim to integrate services as much as possible as a way to improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness and contribute to ending homelessness.
All the lonely people
The Mental Health Foundation (MHF) released a new report - “All the lonely people” – as part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 which focusses on loneliness. The report explores what it’s like to be lonely: its causes, consequences and the groups of people who are more likely to experience severe and enduring loneliness.
What else caught our interest?
- DHSC news: Health and Care Bill granted Royal Assent in milestone for healthcare recovery and reform
- NHS England news: Integrated Care Boards in England
- Citizen Network book: Power and Connection
- Midlands Decision Support Network report: Strategies to reduce inequalities in access to planned hospital procedures
- Learning Disability Today: Addressing loneliness in people with a learning disability
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 host a HAPPI Hour session on 31 May. It will 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.
Scotland
What caught our interest?
- Scottish Government: £15 million for second year of fund
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.
As featured below, we have a great selection of events approaching!
- 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
- 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 is Dementia Action Week 2022 and we’ll be drawing attention to our dedicated webpage on Innovations in Housing and Dementia.
And further to Mental Health Awareness Week this week, our HAPPI Hour session next week is with the Mental Health Foundation. We look forward to sharing the lessons and findings from their Standing Together Project.
We also look forward to publishing a new Housing LIN guest blog by Sarah Davis following the publication of Smoking and social housing: supporting residents, addressing inequalities, on smoking cessation in social housing and how to maximise the health benefits of residents.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.