HLINks - New Housing LIN short film and all our latest news

Spotlight on Extra Care Housing

Bridging the Health and Housing Gap

The Extra Care Housing model has great potential to reduce the pressure on hospitals by offering temporary, supported accommodation that encourages independence and recovery, while also offering patients an experience of an alternative living environment.

In this short film we hear from representatives of both sectors on their strategies for better, integrated working across professional boundaries, and the importance of recognising the individual's wants as well as their needs. And finally, a resident at the Homebridge unit at Farrow Court in Ashford talks about how the service has helped him back on the road to independence.

• Bridging the Health and Housing Gap

You can see more of our films by visiting our Spotlight on Extra Care page, and you can follow the conversation on Twitter using #ECHvideos.

New Resources

Making personalised care a reality: The role of occupational therapy

With the recently published NHS Long Term Plan advocating that personalised care is a key development required to modernise services, occupational therapists are ideally placed to advise on how to articulate the shift urgently required from a medicalised model to one based on personalised care.

• Making personalised care a reality: The role of occupational therapy

UK Housing: Fit for the Future?

This report, by the Committee on Climate Change and its Adaptation Committee, assesses whether the UK’s housing stock is adequately prepared for the challenges of climate change; both in terms of reducing emissions from UK homes and ensuring homes are adequately prepared for the impacts of climate change.

• UK Housing: Fit for the Future?

Integrating Better

This guide and the resources within it are designed to support local areas on their journey to integrate services by reflecting good practice. The guide is aimed at directors, service managers and operational staff in both health and social care.

• Integrating Better

Housing for Older People

• Affordable Housing Commission
• Baroness Grender: Give older people who rent greater security
• Do I Really Want to Die Before I Get Old?
• Anchor Hanover - Merging was ‘the right thing to do’

Accessible Housing

• Embracing the rewards of creating inclusive accessible environments

Social Care

• Strengths-based social work: practice framework and handbook (UK Government)
• Social care charging for local authorities: 2019 to 2020 (UK Government)
• Research in Practice for Adults | Support the implementation of a loneliness strategy

Learning Disabilities

• Person-centred future planning: A quick guide for practitioners supporting people growing older with learning disabilities

Technology Enabled Care

• Help at Home - Use of assistive technology for older people
• Grand Union Housing completes first digital development with Appello

Intergenerational Living

• Representing later life

Wales

• Welsh Government - Integrated care fund

Scotland

• Making room: identifying, planning and delivering accessible homes for disabled people in Scotland (PDF)

EAC Awards

Final Chance to Vote in 2019 EAC Awards

The closing date for voting in the EAC National Housing for Older People Awards 2019 is Thursday 28th February. 

Each year Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) celebrates successful examples of later life housing. The main event is greatly enjoyed by over 300 guests, including the residents of the winning schemes.

• Vote Now!

Events

Managed by the Housing LIN

• Eastern Region Housing LIN Meeting - Walton-on-the-Naze - 11th June

Supported by the Housing LIN

• Meeting Expectations with Digital Telecare - Bedfordshire - 3rd April
• Meeting Expectations with Digital Telecare - Doncaster - 1st May

Next Week

Next week sees the publication of Housing LIN case study 151, Building the right homes for adults with learning disabilities and autism in Oxfordshire.