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Friday, 10 June 2022
Welcome back to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks. I hope you enjoyed the long-weekend, Jubilee celebrations!
Last week, we shared a new Housing LIN guest blog by Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, TAPPI inquiry Chair, who champions the project’s ten core principles and argues that constructive dialogue and delivery are two key components to meaningful innovation that will be explored as part of Phase 2, a TEC Services Association and Housing LIN collaboration, funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust.
We also hosted a HAPPI Hour with the Dementia and Housing Working Group (DHWG) who launched a new interactive, information sharing resource which pools together the existing assistance, guidance, and research on dementia. DHWG also published a drafted outline specification for providers in the private and social housing sectors to take forward Recommendation 35 of the All Party Parliamentary Group’s Inquiry report, to appoint a Board Dementia Champion.
This week, we were delighted to share a new Housing LIN guest blog by Kirklees Council’s Head of Housing Management & Partnerships, Michelle Anderson-Dore who reveals ‘what’s next’ following new research findings on ethnic minority housing preferences and needs. It’s also Pride Month and we’ll be supporting the LGBTQ+ community by drawing your attention to our Diversity Matters resources, such as The Future of LGBTQ+ Living Leeds Survey Report published earlier this year by Pride of Place Leeds.
In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:
- Appello: Are You Prepared For Digital Telecare And Technology Enabled Care (TEC)?
- ARCO: Calls for right to suitable housing for older people as review launches to assess shortfall
- Disability and Rehabilitation journal: What makes home environments favorable to independence: perspectives of autistic people and their parents
- ExtraCare Charitable Trust: Engaged Lives Workshops - What's Happening & How to Get Involved
- King’s College London: What do we know about hoarding behaviour and treatment approaches for older people?
- Policy Connect: “Health is made at home; hospital is for repairs”: the need to link housing with health and wellbeing
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Jeremy Porteus Chief Executive |
New Housing LIN products
How technology can and must support us all to live better, for longer
In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) inquiry Chair and former Director of the National Innovation Centre for Ageing at Newcastle University, reflects on the use of technology and remaining independent, for longer especially when immediate care provision isn’t provided in the first instance. He further shares his own “wish-list” for what should follow the outcomes of the work.
Older People from Ethnic Minorities Housing Needs & Perception Study 2021
This Housing LIN guest blog, by Michelle Anderson-Dore, Head of Housing Management & Partnerships at Kirklees Council, follows the launch of ‘Older People from Ethnic Minorities in Kirklees: Housing Needs and Preferences Study’, new research revealing how preferences in the ageing ethnic minority population affects housing needs in Kirklees. She reveals where they plan to go from here and how they'll ensure the valuable insights into the housing needs of older people from ethnic minorities is used appropriately.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
Ageing Better's new strategy, launched today
The Centre for Ageing Better's new strategy, launched today, builds on their existing work and focuses even further on how they can make a real difference for older people and all of us as we age. This includes a new public campaign tackling the scourge of everyday ageism.
What else caught my interest
- King’s College London: What do we know about hoarding behaviour and treatment approaches for older people?
- Policy Connect: “Health is made at home; hospital is for repairs”: the need to link housing with health and wellbeing
- The Times: The elderly are an opportunity, not a burden
- NIHR: Policy Research Programme - Evaluation of the Care and Support Specialised Housing (CASSH) Fund
- The Guardian: Out of isolation: UK charities reconnect older LGBTQ+ people
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
Centre For Accessible Environments’ survey: Wheelchair Accessible Housing
This Centre for Accessible Environments' survey, in association with Homefinder UK and Habinteg, seeks to find out how easy or difficult it is to let wheelchair accessible properties. You’re invited to complete this brief survey in order to find out what barriers you have experienced in letting wheelchair accessible properties.
You are also encouraged to share this survey with all personnel/teams involved in the process e.g. from inspecting empty properties through to lettings and allocations or with other partner organisations.
They aim to share the learnings from this survey and any solutions to the issues that are identified.
Deadline is Thursday 24th June
TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update
Ahead of the Queen’s Jubilee, we were delighted to join Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, TAPPI Inquiry Chair, the ‘Co-Production and Engagement’ and ‘Evaluation and Shared Learning’ partners, collaborating with the TEC Services Association, for the first in-person meeting since the official launch of TAPPI: Phase 2!
We look forward to announcing the successful partners, as well as the four locality “testbeds”, in due course.
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, visit the TAPPI2 microsite, hosted by the Housing LIN.
What else caught our interest?
- Housing Digital: NHF and CIH launch independent panel to tackle poor-quality homes
- Ability Net: Smart home technology must advance for disabled independent living
- Disability and rehabilitation journal: What makes home environments favorable to independence: perspectives of autistic people and their parents
- Lloyds Bank: How can energy efficient homes help the housing market recover?
Health and social care, mental health and learning disability
An independent review of health and adult social care leadership
The Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid has welcomed the publication of an independent review of health and adult social care leadership, led by General Sir Gordon Messenger and Dame Linda Pollard - and, in what will be the biggest shake-up in health and social care leadership in a generation, is accepting all seven transformative recommendations they have put forward.
What else caught our interest?
- The Health Foundation blog: Local action on health inequalities: introducing ‘Shaping Places for Healthier Lives’
- Foundations blog: Meeting the housing needs of autistic people
Dementia and Housing
A new information sharing resource on housing and dementia launched
Launched at the Housing LIN's HAPPI Hour webinar on behalf of the Dementia & Housing Working Group, this information 'padlet' is an ever-growing and developing resource, which pools together the existing assistance, guidance, and research on dementia. It is home for all the best information, advice, and support for people with dementia, their families, and carers as well as policy makers, practitioners, and academics.
Looking to appoint a Board Dementia Champion? The DHWG provides an outline specification
This paper by the Dementia and Housing Working Group provides an outline specification for providers in the private and social housing sectors to take forward Recommendation 35 of the All Party Parliamentary Group’s Inquiry report: ‘Housing for People with Dementia–Are We Ready?’; namely to appoint dementia ‘champions’ at executive / senior management / board level.
What else caught our interest?
- Scottish Housing News article: Ashley Campbell: We’re all getting older and we need to plan for the future
- University of Manchester: Open call to take part in survey into experiences of supporting those living with dementia
Wales
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- RCT Borough Council: Contractor site preparations to deliver Porth Extra Care Housing Scheme
Scotland
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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 – Last homes not first homes: Housing and planning for an ageing population Tuesday, 21 June 2022 4:00pm – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Smoking and social housing: Supporting residents, addressing inequalities Tuesday 28 June 2022
- HAPPI Hour - Technology enabled care and housing: making the connection Tuesday, 5 July 2022 4:00 – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour – From ‘rightplacing’ and ‘downsizing’ to better understanding of the housing needs and preferences of your ageing populations Tuesday, 12 July 2022 4:00pm – 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour – Designing inclusively: why inclusive and accessible design should be the first fix Tuesday, 26 July 2022 4:00pm – 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.
- Housing – Rising to the Dementia Challenge on Thursday, 23 June 12:00pm – 3:30pm
- National Academy for Social Prescribing Housing Workshop 3: Housing Workshop 3: Magnifying older people's voices, housing & support, Thu 23 Jun 2022 at 09:30
- 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 - Call for papers now open
Next week’s HLINks
In next week's HLINks, we look forward to sharing a new Housing LIN guest blog in association with Lovell Later Living.
We are also keeping an eye out for two new reports by Stonewater and Foundations.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.