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This year's Housing LIN Summit surpasses all expectations

We're so pleased to share that the recent Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas exceeded all our expectations and broke our previous records!

We attracted:

• 56 diverse and inspiring guest speakers 
• 867 individual registrations 
• 1,262 live streams, and
• 3,192 registrations across all 10 sessions

We are extremely grateful to all those who contributed to the success of this year's Summit.

New Housing LIN Case Study (166) featuring a relocatable housing scheme in Wareham, Dorset.

This Housing LIN Case Study (166), written by Adam Fitzgerald, Programme Manager at Building Better Lives in Housing at Dorset Council, describes Red Oak Court, a housing scheme for people with a learning disability and mental health problems which is constructed from factory-built modular units that can be relocated multiple times over their life. 

New network launched to improve health outcomes from London’s housing

The Housing LIN is proud to be a founding member of Future of London’s Health and Housing Impact Network, a new professional network for health and housing leaders to work together to tackle health issues caused by bad housing.

New Housing LIN Future Leaders blog on sector leadership

Prior to last week's Housing LIN Summit session on leadership, we published this Housing LIN guest blog by Hayley Derham, BI Reporting Analyst at Housing 21, who reflects on her experience with the Future Leaders Programme and outlines the basic principles behind good leadership in the housing, health and social care sector.

TAPPI Cast – 10 March 2023

This week's Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) update includes short Q&As with the six TAPPI testbeds in which, six months after their recruitment, they give us an update on their project. These Q&As are available under the Testbeds section of the TAPPI microsite, and much more. 

Sector News and Announcements

New study: Smoking cessation Advice for financially Vulnerable Individuals accessiNG financial Support (SAVINGS)

The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford are looking for housing organisations or money advice/financial support services to collaborate in a new study, SAVINGS. 

This study will test support provided to smokers on low incomes in these settings. To find out more about the project, or to sign up, please contact Dr. Paul Doody. Interested organisations should get in touch before 15 th March.

Dementia in Extra Care Housing research findings launched

This week saw the launch of the findings from the Dementia in Extra Care Housing (DemECH) research project at the House of Lords. Hosted by Lord Best - Chair of the APPG Inquiry into Housing for People with Dementia: Are we ready? - three new Key DemECH Insight Booklets have been published by the Association for Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester. Funded by the NIHR School for Social Care Research, they are aimed at commissioners, health and social care practitioners, older people, people living with dementia, and their families.

How to Transition Safely from Analogue to Digital (Do’s and Don’ts)

For many users of technology enabled care (TEC), the ability to carry out simple activities like video calling, calling for help following a fall or having the reassurance that someone is on the other end of the line, should they need support can be life changing. That's why Everon published a new blog on How to Transition Safely from Analogue to Digital (Do’s and Don’ts).

Extra care housing shortlisted in RIBA regional awards

RIBA has announced the shortlisted architects’ practices for this year’s regional awards. Nearly 100 completed developments have been highlight of which 2 are purpose-built for older people, including extra care housing, and another incorporates multi-generational living.

Housing LIN Team Member Segment

Jerome Billeter, corporate business manager, shares...

"Collaborative housing communities provide excellent informal support for older people - but can they meet the long term social care needs of residents? At our Summit last week, Dr Jim Hudson - along with Professor Karen West - at University of Bristol School for Policy Studies spoke about the Collaborative Housing in Care (CHIC) Project at the session 'People + Place = Connected Communities'. Jim has since published this excellent new blog in which he weighs up early findings from the CHIC research project."

Read The contribution of collaborative housing to social care in later life here.

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 - Reimagining Care: the Church of England Commission’s Vision on Tuesday, 18th April 2023 at 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Building better and beautiful: Place-shaping to regenerate homes and communities on Tuesday, 16th May 2023 at 4:00pm - 5:15pm
   
• HAPPI Hour - Shared Ownership for our Ageing Population (SO HAPPI) on Tuesday, 23rd May 2023 at 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Events supported by the Housing LIN

• The TEC Services Association's ITEC conference on Monday, 27 March to Tuesday, 28 March (50 places for free for Housing LIN members)
   
• Property Week Later Living conference - Unlocking the potential of the later living market on Thursday, 22 June
   
• The Dunhill Medical Trust's 2023 Annual Lectures event on Thursday, 30 March

Next week

Next week, we look forward to publishing a new Housing LIN guest blog by Caroline Bernard, Head of Influence at Respect, and participant in the Housing LIN Future Leaders programme. 

We'll also look out for a Tunstall survey inviting Housing LIN members commissioning or managing grouped living (specialist and supported housing) and the government's Spring Budget to participant.