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News Highlights

Recording now live! Technology for an Ageing Population Webinar

Last week's webinar was a fantastic opportunity to reflect on the insights gained from the TAPPI (Technology for an Ageing Population: Panel of Innovation) project, funded by The Dunhill Medical Trust, and how the key findings and tools can help inform the sector’s agenda on technology-enabled care to facilitate independent living.

A big thank you to all our speakers for their insightful and inspiring contributions! The recording, presentation slides and chat report can now be found here. 

Have your say on Social Tenant Access to Information Requirements

The government has announced a consultation seeking views on the introduction of new Social Tenant Access to Information Requirements that will allow social housing tenants and their representatives to access information related to the management of their housing.

The deadline for a response is 15 July 2024.

Resource Roundup

Commissioning community champions: Lessons from a pandemic

This King’s Fund report explores the role and potential of champions programmes, a community-based approach to health and wellbeing, focussing in particular on the lessons learned from the time of the pandemic.

Commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), the report found several ways in which community champions programmes could add value at a local level.

Evaluation of the out-of-hospital care models programme for people experiencing homelessness

Following the Covid-19 pandemic a new hospital discharge and community operating model was introduced in England. This included the evidence-based recommendation that Home First Discharge to Assess (D2A) should incorporate specialist step-down intermediate care services for people experiencing homelessness.

Undertaken by King's College London and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, this evaluation demonstrates the considerable benefits of providing specialist out-of-hospital care services for people experiencing homelessness.

Reablement, Rehabilitation, Recovery: Everyone’s Business

This report by the British Geriatrics Society focuses on reablement and rehabilitation for older people and highlights the variation in provision across the UK despite evidence of significant benefits.

It argues that rehabilitation should be a component of virtually all care for older people, across all care settings, and that there is no such thing as ‘no rehabilitation’ potential.

Member Spotlights

How to design a dementia-friendly garden

Check out this insightful piece published in The Times by PRP Director, Angeli Ganoo-Fletcher on the importance of creating a dementia-friendly garden for your loved ones. 

Angeli also wrote this Housing LIN Factsheet (No. 35) that highlights the potential of a well-designed landscaped garden to promote physical and mental health, while also mitigating the impact of cognitive decline.

Dates For Your Diary

• HAPPI Hour - Housing and Health Partnerships: Top Tips for NHS Front Line Staff and Commissioners
  Tuesday 11 June 2024 16:00 - 17:00
• HAPPI Hour - Modern Hospice Design and End of Life Care in Housing with Care
  Tuesday 18 June 2024 16:00 - 17:00
• HAPPI Hour - Improving the Quality of our Homes and Communities for an Ageing Population
  Thursday 4 July 2024 16:00 - 17:00
• HAPPI Hour - Housing – Still Rising to the Dementia Challenge
  Tuesday 9 July 2024 16:00 - 17:00
• HAPPI Hour - Ageing well: Creating Healthy Homes and Sustainable Healthier Neighbourhoods
  Tuesday 16 July 2024 16:00 - 17:00

Events supported by Housing LIN

• ​​​​​​Join Housing LIN at the Housing 2024 Conference
  Housing LIN is pleased to offer its members a 25% discount code!
• Designing Homes for Sensory Differences Summit 2024
  From May to July, Neurodiverse Connection will be hosting four panel sessions, with expert speakers sharing good practice in housing design for autistic people and people with sensory needs.
• What Next? 2024 ARCO annual conference
  Housing LIN is pleased to offer its members a 10% discount code: WN24HL10

Housing LIN Consultancy

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Building on our highly-prized learning and improvement ethos, the Housing LIN can help you and your organisation underpin your progress in a changing and challenging work environment.

Let's Work Together! To find out how we can support your operational and/or strategic plans, contact us at consultancy@housinglin.org.uk or visit our consultancy pages.

Thank 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.