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Friday, 20 May 2022
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.
This week, we celebrated Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Action Week, a national campaign to encourage people to ‘act on dementia’, and drew attention to last year’s APPG on Housing with Care for Older People Inquiry report, ‘Housing for people with dementia – are we ready?’ and a selection of resources about dementia-friendly housing.
Our newest guest blog follows new research, conducted in collaboration between ASH and the Housing LIN, and is written by Sarah Davis who highlights social housing providers as valuable partners for health and social care, working to improve the health and wellbeing of people and communities.
And following Mental Health Awareness Week, we were delighted to be joined by Jolie Goodman (Mental Health Foundation) and Miranda Quinney (University of South Wales) who presented on the Standing Together Cymru and shared project findings on loneliness in later life. You’ll be pleased to know that the recording and associated presentation slides are now available, here.
In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:
- APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry: Call for information
- World Health Organisation report: Global Report on Assistive Technology
- Department of Health and Social Care plan: Mental health and wellbeing plan: discussion paper and call for evidence
- ADASS report: Waiting for Care and Support
- University of Salford: New project to help develop age-friendly communities in a post pandemic world
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Jeremy Porteus Chief Executive |
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New Housing LIN guest blog reveals how social housing providers are valuable partners for health and social care
This guest blog follows the launch of new research, conducted in collaboration between Action on Smoking and Health and the Housing LIN that outlines 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.
Sarah Davis, Senior Policy and Practice Officer at the Charted Institute of Housing, further highlights how social housing providers are valuable partners for health and social care, working to improve the health and wellbeing of people and communities.
Celebrating Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Action Week
As highlighted in last year’s APPG on Housing with Care for Older People Inquiry report, ‘Housing for people with dementia – are we ready?’, Dementia Care Pathways do not usually link care and housing together.
That’s why, in support of this year’s Dementia Action Week theme on diagnosis, the Housing LIN drew attention to the extensive resources about dementia-friendly housing hosted on our website.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry: Call for information
As a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care current Inquiry: ‘Making retirement living affordable: the role of shared ownership housing’, on behalf of the Inquiry’s co-chairs, Lord Best and Peter Aldous MP, they would like to invite you to submit evidence to help inform the group in their deliberations.
What else caught my interest?
- ExtraCare Charitable Trust article: Dementia and Mental Wellbeing Programme
- UK Parliament: Funding adult social care – Levelling Up Committee questions Health & Levelling Up Ministers on Government plans
- NHS Confederation: Housing, health and care need a step change to improve mental health
- Inside Housing: What does ‘levelling up’ look like for homeless people?
- Housing Studies: Collaborative housing communities through the COVID-19 pandemic: rethinking governance and mutuality
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update
And that’s a wrap! We’ve received a diverse range of fantastic applications that all have shown great enthusiasm towards the core mission of TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation. We will soon announce the project’s ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and ‘Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partners, as well as the four locality “testbeds”.
In the meantime, explore the TAPPI2 microsite to find out everything you need to know about 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.
Doing Digital in Later Life: A practical guide
Good Things Foundation conducted a comprehensive evidence review that sought to consider digital in its broadest sense and explored the barriers to digital access, skills and support over 75s face.
With reference to the TAPPI Inquiry Report, this evidence review and resulting guide is designed to provide ‘top tips’ to help people supporting over 75s to access digital inclusion support in a way that is right for them.
What else caught our interest?
- World Health Organisation report: Global Report on Assistive Technology
- Independent Living article: DFG and assistive technology
- Tuntstall: Strengthening care delivery in Finland with acquisition
- University of Salford: New project to help develop age-friendly communities in a post pandemic world
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
Waiting for Care and Support
This is a summary of the ADASS survey carried out in April 2022, which combined a continuation of the monthly monitoring of people waiting for assessments, care and support or a direct payment to begin or a review of their care plan, together with a repeat of the survey measuring homecare hours delivered in a quarter.
This summary report combines these latest results with data over the last year.
What else caught our interest?
- Department of Health and Social Care plan: Mental health and wellbeing plan: discussion paper and call for evidence
- NHS England consultation: Working in Partnership with People and Communities
- Mental Health Foundation report: Loneliness and Mental Health Report UK
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.
What caught our interest?
- Music for Dementia: How to use music with a loved one who has just been diagnosed with dementia
Wales
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.
- 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
Events supported by the Housing LIN
- Archbishops' Commission on Reimagining Care Virtual Summit Tuesday, 14 June 11:00 – 13:00
- Property Week - Later Living Conference 2022: Unlocking the potential of the later living market on Thursday 23rd June 2022.
- The ARCO What Next? 2022 Conference – Wednesday, 6 July - Thursday, 7 July
- SALUS Healthy City Design conference Monday, 10 October – Tuesday, 11 October - Call for papers now open
Next week’s HLINks
Next week we publish a new Housing LIN guest blog by Gary Steen, Chief Technology Officer at Tunstall Healthcare, on the role of technology in innovating housing services and care delivery for vulnerable tenants.
And, you’re invited to next week's HAPPI Hour session on Integrated Retirement Communities in partnership with West Waddy Archadia architects.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.