HLINks - Catch up with the Housing LIN

Housing LIN news & publications

What's your experience and journey with equality, diversity and inclusion in the sector?

This week we celebrated Housing Diversity Day 2022, an opportunity to share your experiences and journey with equality, diversity and inclusion in the sector. We were delighted to share a few examples and resources to help inspire and support one another's learning and form a library that we can all draw from in our diversity journey.

Consultancy report

Housing our Ageing Population

There is a distinct and urgent need to provide a better range of housing options to meet the wide variety of housing circumstances, aspirations and needs of people as they age.

Written by Ian Copeman and Lois Beech from the Housing LIN, the report captures the learning from a selection of exemplar councils which demonstrate how they are playing a significant place-making role in shaping the current and future supply of housing for an ageing population in their areas. 

Sector news and publications

Putting people at the heart of new housing development: Coproducing the place we call home

This Best Practice Guide, published by East of England LGA, features case studies demonstrating integrated working and a high level of coproduction drawn from across the eastern region and further afield from a variety of organisations. 

It focusses on new housing developments that have been selected by their Eastern Regional Housing Working Group and includes some leading edge examples.

My safe haven

Alyson Scurfield, CEO, TEC Services Association (TSA), explains how the TAPPI project aims to identify how technology can be used to enable elderly people to remain living in their own homes.

She shares how we intend to create a blue print for delivering digital care and housing services successfully within communities to find the best ways to support people to live in their own homes and communities for longer and giving a voice to residents is the first critical step on this journey. 

The case for developing specialist older person’s housing

Projections reveal that we need 38,000 new homes for rent for older people each year, far in excess of the annual average output of 8,000 seen over the last decade.

This new publication from the National Housing Federation seeks to identify these barriers and challenges and outlines the key asks of national and local government to enable our members to deliver much needed additional older person’s accommodation.

Green space and loneliness: A systematic review with theoretical and methodological guidance for future research

This systematic review reported that two-thirds of the studies analysed recognised that green space potentially protected people against loneliness. It also provides theoretical and methodological guidance for future research.

Public Health Spatial Planning in Practice

Published by the UK Health Security Agency, ‘Public Health Spatial Planning in Practice’ sets out the reasons for and the benefits which arise from a reimagined system which reunites spatial planning and public health and makes the case for making health and wellbeing an underpinning organising principle for spatial planning decisions.

Department of Health and Social Care announce £500 Million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund in plan for patients

The Department of Health and Social Care has announced its plan for patients, including a £500 million to support adult social care to help people needing discharge from hospital into social care. 

Further details on how this money will be distributed and conditions will be announced shortly and we will confirm how this funding will link to the Better Care Fund programme at that time.

Local Authorities needed for large-scale study on cost-effectiveness of bathing adaptations for older adults

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is carrying out a randomised controlled trial into whether having a walk-in shower improves or maintains older people’s health, safety, quality of life, and ability to manage their personal care. The study is also looking at whether speeded-up provision of a walk-in shower is more cost-effective. 

The trial will produce information about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of bathing adaptations for disabled older people. To find out more or get involved visit the NIHR website . 

Longitude Prize on Dementia offers new hope in helping people with dementia stay independent

Alzheimer’s Society, Innovate UK and Challenge Works are calling for innovators around the world to use artificial intelligence to create breakthrough technologies that learn from a person living with dementia.

Last week they launched a new £4.34 million Longitude Prize on Dementia, and are calling for innovators around the world to use artificial intelligence to create breakthrough technologies that learn from a person living with dementia. More details here.

National housing group call out for new members affected by dementia

The Dementia and Housing Working Group work with the housing sector to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia. The group are now keen to involve people affected by dementia in the planning and prioritising stage of the group’s activity. They are inviting new members living with dementia or caring for loved one with dementia and have an interest in this work.

If you are interested in becoming a member of the group, please contact Vanessa Pritchard - Vanessa.Pritchard-Wilkes@housing21.org.uk

Housing LIN team member segment

Sally Taylor-Ridgway, Digital Communications, Marketing and Event's Officer, shares...

"So pleased to hear that Dr Sophie Yarker, one of our previous HAPPI Hour speakers and Research Fellow at University of Manchester's Urban Ageing Research Group, was named Researcher of the Year. Very well deserved! Sophie’s research focuses on social infrastructure and urban ageing. She published her first sole authored this year, Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure. I was delighted to connect with Sophie back in February when she expanded on these at one of our previous HAPPI Hours, Social Prescribing: it’s a better prescription and in this blog post. 

Events

Watch, Listen & Learn

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 - What Creates Healthy Cities? on 11/10/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - A grey and green AGEnda: The foundations of good passivhaus and zero carbon design in housing for people in later life on 18/10/22 at 4:00 - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Putting People at the Heart of New Housing Development: Co-producing the Place We Call Home on 01/11/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Housing our Ageing Population on 03/11/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Neurodiversity, Design and Silver Surfers on 08/11/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Older People’s Care in Social Housing: A Manifesto for Change on 16/11/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Better integrated mental health, housing cares on 06/12/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Pioneering Urban Design for Later Living on 20/12/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Reimagining Care: the Church of England Commission’s Vision - day and time TBC

Events supported by the Housing LIN

• SALUS's Healthy City Design on 10/10/22 - 11/10/22
   
• Housing 21's Annual conference on 12/10/22 at 10am - 4pm 
   
• Digital and Technology-Enabled Care Services - where we are and where next by Centre for Care on 18/10/22 at 10am – 12pm 
   
• Myth busting the digital landscape webinar by everon on 20/10/22 at 12pm – 2pm
   
• and the UKRI Healthy Ageing conference

Next week

Next week, we look forward to reading a new publication by Almhouse Association on almshouse and the impact of almshouse charities in the COVID-19 pandemic.   

We also excitedly anticipate our HAPPI Hour - What Creates Healthy Cities? session drawing on the key messages from the Commission on Creating Healthy Cities, chaired by Lord Best.

And, we look forward to publishing our newest Inspirational Achievement in partnership with Tunstall Healthcare. 

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