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The role of technology in innovating housing services and care delivery for vulnerable tenants.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Gary Steen, Chief Technology Officer at Tunstall Healthcare, explores the role of technology in innovating housing services and care delivery for vulnerable tenants. He highlights how the last two years have brought the importance of technology and data into sharp focus and reveals not only how they shape their services through technology but how their use of cutting edge technology helped support nursing home staff during the COVID19 pandemic.

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Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing

Independent living and Housing with Care video guides

When you start looking at the housing options available to you as you get older, it can get very confusing. To help understand what Independent Living and Housing with Care can offer, Norfolk County Council provides three short videos on:

• Positive, independent living choices for older people
• Housing with Care and Independent Living choices
• How to apply to move into a Housing with Care or Independent Living site

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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.

• Have Your Say

What else caught my interest

• Housing Studies article: Collaborative housing communities through the COVID-19 pandemic: rethinking governance and mutuality
• Centre for Ageing Better blog: Community connections predict wellbeing as we age
• ExtraCare Charitable Trust blog: How peer support groups have been boosting community spirit at Pannel Croft Village
• The Extra Care Charitable Trust: “If it works in Chicago, why not Birmingham?”
• JLL: Later Living: Integrated Retirement Community Index 2022

Design, Construction, Planning and Technology

TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update

As mentioned last week, we’ve received a diverse range of fantastic applications that all have shown great enthusiasm towards the core mission 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”.

Would you like to receive regular TAPPI2 updates direct to your inbox? If you haven’t already, please remember to update your Housing LIN profile and tick the ‘Telecare and Digital Technology’ topic.

Otherwise you can find out 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, by visiting the TAPPI2 microsite, hosted by the Housing LIN.

• Explore TAPPI2

Inclusive Bathroom Design for the Third Age

Ed Warner, Founder of Motionspot in the United Kingdom, where he also serves as Sector Champion for the design of spaces and products for the UK government, appeared as a guest on this month’s Third Age podcast. The podcast focuses on the trickiest design challenge for the Third Age, and an area in which seldom gets the aesthetic attention it deserves….bathrooms!

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Tunstall announces new Group CEO as it looks to the future

Global market leading health and care technology company, Tunstall Healthcare, has announced the appointment of Emil Peters as group CEO with effect from 16 May 2022. Emil joins Tunstall from Cerner Corporation where he held the position of international president, managing all territories outside of the US. 

• Find out more

What else caught our interest?

• TSA case study: How transforming workforce helped local authority deliver an outcomes-focused digital TEC service
• LGA webpage: Four essential steps for delivering digital inclusion projects and initiatives

Health and social care, mental health and learning disability

ICS Engagement with the Adult Social Care Sector in Decision Making

This report, published by the Good Governance Institute, builds upon previous research and focuses more on how engagement between ICSs and the ASC sector can be improved.

The report provides context on the issue before presenting the findings of their qualitative research, then delving into more sector-wide issues, namely, the statistics, the future and the role ICSs have to play, as well as the ramifications of the government’s October WhitePaper and how the CQC fit in to this new system.

The main body of the report ends with a reference guide for providers that lists all the ICSs by region and the local authorities within them before concluding with recommendations.

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What else caught our interest?

• County Councils Network report: New analysis reveals the regional impact on local councils of the government’s flagship adult care reforms
• Reside with Progress vlog - Glen – living in a supported housing scheme
• Housing 21: 21 Talks Episode 2 - Extra Care Academy
• Mental Health Today: Is secure, quality housing the missing policy component in improving mental health recovery outcomes?

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.

• Book Now

Scotland

Designing Homes for Healthy Cognitive Ageing: Co-Production for Impact and Scale

The University of Stirling have got the green light from the UK Research & Innovation healthy ageing challenge to research into designing homes for healthy cognitive Ageing: Co-Production for impact and scale (DesHCA). The Housing LIN is delighted to be one of the non-academic partners in this international research project to create future-proof housing to meet the needs of the world’s ageing population.

• Find Out More

What else caught our interest?

• Scottish Housing News: River Clyde Homes tenant highlights life changing move into dementia friendly apartment
• Scottish Housing News: New report outlines case for reducing rates of smoking in social housing sector

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 - Dementia and Housing Padlet launch event on Tuesday 31 May 4:00 – 5:15pm

We also excitedly anticipate the HAPPI Hour Summer series of webinars. As featured below, we have a great selection of events approaching!

• HAPPI Hour – Last homes not first homes: Housing and planning for an ageing population on Tuesday, 21 June 2022 at 4:00pm – 5:15pm
• HAPPI Hour - Smoking and social housing: Supporting residents, addressing inequalities on Tuesday 28 June 2022 at 4:00pm – 5:15pm
• HAPPI Hour - Technology enabled care and housing: making the connection on Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 4:00 – 5:15pm
• HAPPI Hour – From ‘rightplacing’ and ‘downsizing’ to better understanding of the housing needs and preferences of your ageing populations on Tuesday, 12 July 2022 at 4:00pm – 5:15pm
• HAPPI Hour – Designing inclusively: why inclusive and accessible design should be the first fix on Tuesday, 26 July 2022 at 4:00pm – 5:15pm

Other events supported by the Housing LIN

• Archbishops' Commission on Reimagining Care Virtual Summit on Tuesday, 14 June 2022 at 11:00 – 13:00
• Property Week - Later Living Conference 2022: Unlocking the potential of the later living market on Thursday 23rd June 2022.
• National Academy for Social Prescribing Housing Workshop 3: Housing Workshop 3: Magnifying older people's voices, housing & support on Thursday, 23 Jun 2022 at 09:30am
• The ARCO What Next? 2022 Conference on Wednesday, 6 July - Thursday, 7 July 2022
• SALUS Healthy City Design conference on Monday, 10 October – Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Next week...

Next week, we look forward to publishing a new blog by Professor Roy Sandbach, chair of the TAPPI Inquiry, in which he explores how technology can and must support us all to live better, for longer.

And join us at our next HAPPI Hour session in association with the Dementia and Housing Working Group as we reflect on last year’s APPG on Housing with Care for Older People Inquiry report and launch the Dementia and Housing padlet, a ‘go to’ dementia information hub.

Finally, please note that due to the Jubilee weekend, there will be no HLINks next Friday. We resume on Friday, 10 June.

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