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Friday, 24 June 2022
Welcome back to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin HLINks.
I am sad to report that Baroness Sally Greengross has died. Sally was a passionate advocate on older people's issues and for many years a champion of age-friendly housing. Over the decades, she contributed to many key policy developments - from Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods to HAPPI - and in March this year had contributed in the House of Lords debate on housing for older people. We will miss her considerably.
This week, we published three new Housing LIN guest blogs. The first blog explores the ongoing partnership between Places for People Living Plus, Lovell Later Living and the Morgan Sindall Group. The second blog is by David Burgher, Director and Founder of VR-EP, who reveals how and why VR-EP created an immersive VR experience as a tool to help architects understand how to design dementia friendly spaces. And the third, a joint blog by Ed Warner, Founder and CEO at Motionspot and Paula Broadbent, Managing Director at Lovell Later Living on designing for the future, now!
We also celebrated Learning Disability Week, an annual campaign hosted by Mencap which raises awareness on what it's like to live with a learning disability. We drew attention to a range of resources and tools hosted on the ‘Housing and Learning Disability: Transforming care and support’ webpages, supported by Golden Lane Housing.
And finally, we explored multi-generational housing and planning practice and policy in this week’s HAPPI Hour, ‘Last homes not first homes: Housing and planning for an ageing population’, co-chaired by Winckwood Sherwood and delivered by an excellent range of speakers. Missed it? The recording and presentation slides are now available here.
In other news that caught my interest, we signpost to:
- CaCHE: How to Combine action on housing retrofit with tackling health inequalities (and other injustices)
- Dimensions: Broken system, broken lives. 11 policies to limit ATU admissions and accelerate discharges
- Foundations: The Social Value of aids and adaptations provided by Home Improvement Agencies
- NHS Confederation: Healthy-foundations_integrating-housing-as-part-of-mental-health-pathway
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Jeremy Porteus Chief Executive |
New Housing LIN products
Lovell Later Living and Places for People Living Plus
This new Housing LIN guest blog by Paula Broadbent, Managing Director at Lovell Later Living and Andy Lomas, Managing Director at Places for People Living Plus, explore an ongoing partnership that is helping local authorities to deliver Extra Care housing developments in Hampshire and Norfolk.
Dementia in the Digital Age: Improving quality of life through Virtual Reality
In this new Housing LIN guest blog, David Burgher, Director and Founder of VR-EP, reveals how and why VR-EP created an immersive VR experience as a tool to help architects understand how to design dementia friendly spaces.
Designing for the future, now!
Why are adaptations considered a cheap and short-term welfare provision for later living rather than a long term investment in accessibility?
Ed Warner, Founder and CEO at Motionspot and Paula Broadbent, Managing Director at Lovell Later Living, reflect on the importance behind transforming spaces through beautifully designed, accessible environments and products.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
Older People’s Care in Social Housing: A Manifesto for Change
Published by Altair and sponsored by The Guinness Partnership, Housing 21 and Devonshires, ‘Older People’s Care in Social Housing: A Manifesto for Change’ brings together research on Registered Provider’s (RP) role in housing and care, past, present and future.
Drawing from learning from home and abroad on housing and care, in social sectors, the report sets out a manifesto for change and calls on all UK providers of social housing to commit to taking action against ten critical areas.
Council to seek a new developer and operator of UK's first purpose-built LGBTQ+ majority Extra Care housing scheme
Manchester City Council will begin the process to bring a new housing provider with extra care experience on board to deliver the new LGBTQ+ majority Extra Care housing project in Whalley Range, south Manchester. A new competition will be held later this year and the successful housing delivery partner will be part of a tripartite strategic partnership with Manchester City Council and LGBT Foundation.
What else caught our interest?
- CaCHE: How to Combine action on housing retrofit with tackling health inequalities (and other injustices)
- National Housing Federation: How supported housing helped me get back on my feet
- Lifestory Group: Simplify your life and do more of what you love
- Department of Health and Social Care: Senior Delivery Officer / Project Lead - Closes Wednesday, 29 June
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
TAPPI2: From Principles to Implementation - Weekly update
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?
- University of Essex: Digital technologies pose a threat to human rights of older people
- Centre For Accessible Environments’ survey: Wheelchair Accessible Housing
Health and social care, mental health and learning disability
Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: Mapping Examples of Use in Practice
The Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care provides a national framework for local action designed around six ambitions. Following its relaunch for another five years in 2021, the Open University conducted a survey to find out how people had used the framework to date within their services.
The Framework is most frequently being used to provide guiding principles and to support education and training. It is perceived to provide a shared language about what matters in palliative and end of life care. Their findings suggest that there is appetite for further education and knowledge exchange about the Framework and how people have used it.
Disability Awareness Week: What it's like to live with a learning disability
Hosted by Mencap, Learning Disability Awareness Week is an annual campaign which raises awareness on what it's like to live with a learning disability. It aims to help remove stigma and discrimination and educate more people about learning disabilities.
This year, Learning Disability Awareness Week takes place between 20th – 26th June 2022 and the Housing LIN would like to show support by drawing attention to a range of resources and tools hosted on the ‘Housing and Learning Disability: Transforming care and support’ webpages, supported by Golden Lane Housing.
Healthy foundations: Integrating housing as part of the mental health pathway
This report, published by the Mental Health Network NHS Confederation, explores the steps needed to achieve a more integrated and strategic approach between health, housing and social care.
In association with HACT, this report reflects on the barriers and enablers to integrating supported housing and housing expertise into mental health pathways. It has been informed by extensive engagement with senior leaders and people with lived and professional experience.
What else caught our interest?
Dementia and Housing
Living with Dementia Toolkit
The Living with Dementia Toolkit is a set of resources based on research, and the expert experiences of people with dementia and their carers. These resources are here to give you hope for the future, inspire you through examples of real-life experiences and offer ideas to help you live your life as you choose.
What caught our interest?
- University of Manchester: Open call to take part in survey into experiences of supporting those living with dementia
Wales
What caught our interest?
- Welsh Government: Written Statement: Welsh Government Fuel Voucher Scheme
Scotland
What caught our interest?
- Scottish Housing News: Black’s Blog: Housing with Care… What does it mean?
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 - 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:
- The ARCO What Next? 2022 Conference Wednesday, 6 July – Thursday, 7 July 2022
- SALUS Healthy City Design conference Monday, 10 October – Tuesday, 11 October - Call for papers now open
Next week’s HLINks
Next week, in association with Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), we are pleased to host a HAPPI Hour webinar on the recent ‘Smoking and social housing: Supporting residents, addressing inequalities’report.
We also look forward to publishing a new Inspirational Achievement in partnership with Places for People Living Plus featuring an innovative modular living project, Jubilee Place.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.