HLINks Weekly: Housing, Health, and Social Care Latest News
10 June 2024
This week, we are excited to celebrate two significant awareness weeks.
Loneliness Awareness Week offers an opportunity to encourage everyone to increase those simple, everyday moments of connection that help us feel happier and less lonely.
Additionally, Carers Week, with this year's theme 'Putting Carers on the Map', aims to increase visibility for carers among decision-makers, services, employers, communities and businesses.
We are pleased to present new Housing LIN guest blogs that highlight key themes around both loneliness and carers, including:
- Working Together to Tackle Loneliness by Sarah Mitton, Age Friendly Communities Manager at Clarion Futures, Clarion Housing Group
- Loneliness and the Built Environment: Towards Compassionate Places by Natasha Reid, Founder of Matter Space Soul
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 |
News Highlights
Upcoming webinar to provide top housing tips for NHS frontline staff and commissioners
Tomorrow's HAPPI Hour hosted by Housing LIN in collaboration with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in the East of England (ADASS East) will specifically highlight two recent guides designed to assist people working within or alongside NHS staff in navigating housing services, systems and professional networks effectively.
The webinar, titled ‘Housing and Health Partnerships: Top Tips for NHS Front Line Staff and Commissioners’, will take place on 11 June 2024 from 4pm to 5pm.
Resource Roundup
Resources for local authorities interested in expanding financial support for home improvements
The Centre of Ageing Better have published three reports with Foundations - the national body for Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Improvement Agencies in England - to better understand how local authorities are financially supporting individuals to make changes to their home despite an extremely challenging context for public budgets.
New easy read adaptation of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit
The ASCOT-ER for Older People is an easy read adaptation of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit, also known as ASCOT.
ASCOT is designed to capture the aspects of quality of life most impacted by social care. This new, accessible version is designed to support the inclusion of people who find completing surveys tricky due to dementia, mild cognitive impairment, being unfamiliar with surveys or other issues.
Building public support for a brighter social care future in 5 easy reframes – quick read
Social Care Future - a growing, people-powered movement for change - shares 5 things those who care about the future of social care can start to do now to help win the change we all want to see by learning to reframe our messaging.
Growing older in Wales: Perspectives of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic older people
The Older People's Commissioner for Wales sought to gather the lived experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic older people through working with the organisations and people with whom people engage regularly.
Older people who took part were able to determine what they wanted to share as part of their 'lived experience' of growing older in Wales, and this report was written based on these findings.
New research shows the value Platform Housing are adding
The work Platform Housing Group does to provide safe, secure, and affordable homes to their customers makes a significant contribution to society, a new report has found.
Working with a group of leading social housing providers, Platform Housing Group has supported new independent academic research that shows the social homes they provide generate economic growth and save public services, like the NHS, millions of pounds a year.
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
Wednesday 3 July 2024 16:00 - 17:00 (note new date) - HAPPI Hour - Housing – Still Rising to the Dementia Challenge
Tuesday 9 July 2024 15:30 - 17:15 - 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 - Intentional Communities Symposium
In partnership with Braziers Park Community, the 2024 Intentional Communities Symposium will be running (online) over three evenings.
Housing LIN Consultancy
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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
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