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Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) Cast

On Wednesday, our Co-production partner, Co-production Works ran the first of two co-production training sessions for the 6 TAPPI testbeds aimed to help participants understand co-production, its values, history, and how it is used.

This training coincided with this week's Co-production Week Scotland. Find out about Bield Housing and Care - our Scottish testbed - and their ambition to:

• Improve digital literacy and engagement with older people,
• Develop a framework to further enhance digital engagement and usage amongst their client and staff groups,
• Keep more people living independently for longer using technology, using a co-production approach.

Follow their journey on Twitter and LinkedIn. 

TSA's bimonthly Industry Magazine, TEC Voice was published this week and includes an update on TAPPI. 

Next Monday, we look forward to hosting the first TAPPI Steering Board meeting, chaired by Professor Roy Sandbach, the former Director of the National Innovation, Centre for Ageing at the University of Newcastle and chair of the original TAPPI Inquiry. We look forward to publishing a new guest blog by Roy and sharing who is on the Board next week. 

Led by the Housing LIN, the TEC Services Association (TSA) and funded by The Dunhill Medical Trust, TAPPI seeks to address the opportunity that technology has to enhance the lives of our ageing population and the barriers that prevent its adoption.

Co-production Week Scotland - Putting Co-production into Practice

This week is Co-production Week Scotland! Co-production is a way of making decisions that combines everyone’s strengths so that we can work together to achieve positive change.  It’s about shifting the balance of power in our public services and communities.

We drew attention to a selection of Scottish co-production related projects we are currently working on here.

HAPPI Hour - The cost of living crisis and specialist/support housing

With pressure on both residents, operators and developers of specialist/supported housing, this important HAPPI Hour webinar outlined the key challenges faced by providers of specialist/supported housing is securing the necessary funding/finance for new development projects. 

We were joined by representatives from Charity Bank, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Community Housing Cymru and WWA architect.

Sector Publications & News

Housing Older People Task Force update

Housing Minister Lucy Frazer confirmed in the House of Commons earlier this week that she is committed to launching the Older People's Housing Task Force and has spoken to the Minister of State for Health and Social Care, Helen Whately about it.

My Home, My Care, My Way

A set of short, free-to-view videos is now available from September’s My Home, My Care, My Way conference, a collaboration with West Midlands ADASS, TSA, and TLAP, exploring how housing, social care and tech providers can pursue opportunities and funding outlined in the recent White Paper People at the Heart of Care.

Inclusive Engagement Toolkit

Published by Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQOL), this Inclusive Engagement Toolkit is a handy resource that outlines the key steps and principles to enable and encourage equal access to opportunities and resources during consultation and engagement processes for planning.

Innovations In Social Prescribing: the role of housing

Developed in partnership with the National Academy of Social Prescribing, HACT, Royal Voluntary Service and Housing LIN, this report outlines our first steps in building awareness and connection between social housing and the social prescribing community.

Housing LIN Team Member Segment

Sally Taylor-Ridgway, communications & event's officer, shares...

"The Centre for Ageing Better have released a suite of icons, freely available for public use, as alternatives to symbols commonly used to represent ageing and older people. This range of free-to-use ‘age-positive’ icons were launched to replace stereotypical symbols of ageing.

This is a useful resource to help tackle ageism. As referred to by Stephanie Hatzifilalithis and Nicole Dalmer in their recent article on Ageism in tech, ageism refers to the stereotypes (how we think), prejudice (how we feel) and discrimination (how we act) we might hold towards others or ourselves based on age."

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 - Taking pride in later life housing on 29/11/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - My home matters: living with dementia, are we ready? on 06/12/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm 
   
• HAPPI Hour - Pioneering Urban Design for Later Living on 20/12/2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm

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Next week

Next week's HAPPI Hour webinar, 'Taking pride in later life housing', looks at housing for an older LGBTQ+ community. We will be joined by Tonic Housing, Pride in Place in Leeds, Orbit Group and sponsor, Winckworth Sherwood solicitors. 

In addition, we look forward to hosting the first TAPPI Steering Board meeting, chaired by Professor Roy Sandbach, the former Director of the National Innovation, Centre for Ageing at the University of Newcastle and chair of the original TAPPI Inquiry. 

Lastly, we look forward to publishing a new guest blog by Professor Roy Sandbach, chair of the TAPPI Steering Board.