HLINks Weekly: Housing, Health, and Social Care Latest News
HLINks Weekly: Housing, Health, and Social Care Latest News
26 February 2024
Join us as we kick off this year's Housing LIN Virtual Summit - A Festival of Ideas!
This morning's opening session, supported by The ExtraCare Charitable Trust (ECCT), features Helen Whately, Minister of State for Social Care in the Department for Health and Social Care, discussing the Older People’s Housing Taskforce. We'll also explore ECCT's journey with extra care, hear resident stories, and discuss the strategic role of extra care housing.
And that's not all! Throughout the week, delve into the current innovations and challenges in housing for older people, particularly around themes of marketing, inclusive design, vibrant later living, diversity and inclusion, technology-enabled care, leadership, planning, and CollaborAGE.
Will you be joining us? There's still time to find out more and register your place(s) here!
Thank you for being a part of our community. We hope you find this week's HLINks newsletter both informative and engaging. Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the weeks to come!
Best wishes,
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The Housing LIN Team |
Top News Highlights
Wendy Mitchell - A lasting memory
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Wendy Mitchell. Wendy gave everything to campaign on dementia and to live life to the full.
Her impact was truly profound when she gave evidence to the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People housing and dementia inquiry, Are we ready?.
Brunelcare is looking for a new trustee
Bristol-based charity Brunelcare has a fantastic opportunity for a trustee to join its Board, and help drive its vital mission of providing person-centred care, housing and support for later life.
They are looking to create an ‘unlike-minded board’ which represents the true diversity of our local communities. The closing date for applications is 5pm on 25 March 2024.
How to make retirement housing more attractive to residents
We were struggling to fill our properties due to outdated perceptions of what retirement housing offered, so we knew we needed to make changes, writes Paul White, head of Bernicia Living.
Find out how by recognising that their tenants want and need something different from retirement living, they have been able to redefine their offer to give tenants the homes and social spaces that will maintain their independence for longer.
Enter the Housing Design Awards, join the world's leading design resource
As the exclusive sponsor of The Housing Design Awards (HDA) and its HAPPI award category, we are always pleased to see so many HAPPI-inspired projects make it to the shortlist each year.
Organised by Design for Homes, the HAPPI submissions sit alongside the latest mainstream housing for quality and feature a range of affordable and high-end housing options tailored for older individuals, from contemporary age-friendly housing design and retirement living to place-making extra care housing and new hospice provision.
2024's deadline for entry to the HDA is Tuesday 5 March.
Resource Roundup
New ADASS East guides offer housing top tips to NHS staff and commissioners
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in the East of England (ADASS East) has produced two new guides for NHS front line staff and commissioners who are navigating the services, systems and professionals involved in housing and delivering new housing.
TAPPI Cast - 23 February
Welcome to TAPPI Cast, our weekly update on the 'Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation' (TAPPI) project which aims to improve the way technology is used in housing and care for older people.
Ken Worpole: Designing social care
Series 3, Episode 25 of A is for Architecture’s is a conversation with social and architectural historian, Ken Worpole, discussing his life and work, and focusing on the new edition of his book Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative and Social Care.
This podcast talks about the philosophy of design for providing care for the elderly and the vulnerable, taking the importance of architectural aesthetics, the use of quality materials, the porousness of design to the wider world, and the integration of indoor and outdoor spaces as part of the overall care environment.’
Expert Insights
Amar Bari Amar Jibon – A Collaborative, Coproduced research project
In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Bashir Uddin, CEO of Bangla Housing Association, shares insights into the Amar Bari Amar Jibon research, a project that focuses on the entrenched housing and health inequalities of Bangladeshi elders (‘probin’ in Bangla) in East London boroughs of Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets.
Join Bashir Uddin and others from Housing 21 and the University of Worcester on Wednesday 28th February for a webinar on 'Advancing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Housing for Older Adults' as part of this year's Housing LIN Summit.
Leadership and Design
In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Banah Rashid, Project Architect at Levitt Bernstein, reflects on her experience with the Future Leaders Programme and how good design requires good leadership.
We're delighted to be joined by Banah and other Future Leader participants in Thursday's Housing LIN Summit session on Cultivating Leadership: Inspiring the Next Wave of Talent and Future Leaders.
Dates for your Diary
Housing LIN events:
- Housing LIN Summit 2024 - A Festival of Ideas from 26th February to 1st March
Other events supported by Housing LIN:
- Community Investment Appleby Tour, Thursday 29 February at 17:00 - 20:00
- ITEC Conference 2024, 18th and 19th March 2024 - Claim your FREE day pass!
- Age-inclusive design principles: Shaping a sense of belonging in later life
Cartwright Pickard and The Royal College of Art present a Later Living event on Thursday 25 April 2024 8:30am - 17:00
Thanks you Tunstall Healthcare
The Housing LIN would like to thank Tunstall Healthcare for its sponsorship of our news pages. This, along with this newsletter, enables us to bring the latest news and information on housing with care and technology matters to our members.