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Dementia-Friendly Technology HAPPI Hour webinar – reserve your spot today!

On behalf of the Dementia and Housing Working Group (DHWG), we are excited to invite you to tomorrow's HAPPI Hour webinar on Dementia Friendly Technology. Chaired by Ali Rogan (DHWG External Affairs Advisor), this session will explore:

• How we can eradicate digital exclusion
• Challenges and opportunities in the use of technology and AI in dementia
• Preparing for the January 2027 Digital Shift and the latest update for providers
• How we enable community spaces to become more dementia friendly for people with dementia using Augmented Reality

Find out more and secure your FREE place here!

The Housing LIN SW Leadership Set delves into latest research from the region

At last week's Housing LIN South West Leadership Set meeting, we were delighted to be joined by guest speakers from the University of Exeter’s Health and Social Care Delivery Research to share preliminary findings on the evaluation of extra care housing as well as Exeter’s Innovation Regional Engagement Team on the research for the Devon Housing Commission. 

Resource Roundup

Webinar recording available on planning policy and practice developments

In partnership with Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors and West Waddy Archadia Architects, last week's HAPPI Hour explored the National Planning Policy Framework reform and the landscape for delivering specialist housing within the government's goal of 1.5 million new homes over the next 5 years.

Big thanks to Charlotte Cook, Partner at Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors, for Chairing, and to Matthew Steinbrecher (Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors), Ifti Maniar (West Waddy Archadia Architects) and Rowan Gilbert (Town & Country Planning Association) for sharing their valuable insights. 

Healthy Homes in the East of England

East of England LGA have worked with partners to produce a self-improvement tool for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to help enhance collaboration between housing and health sectors to improve health outcomes.

Setting out five Guiding Principles, it also makes a four-point call to action to ICS leaders.

Expert Insights

Five Things We Learnt from the Older People’s Housing Report

Abdul A Ravat, a member of the Housing and Ageing Alliance and Lead on Ageing Well for BME National, highlights how crucial it is for the government to implement the recommendations from the Taskforce report quickly and engage more widely with older people, including those from seldom heard and faith-based communities, to ensure that everyone’s needs are reflected in housing strategies.

Other Items That Caught our Interest...

• A call for accessible housing: A powerful campaign led by a collaboration between Invisible Creations, PROCare and Foundations
• As society ages, good-quality homes are needed more than ever before by Centre for Ageing Better

Dates for your diary

With just two sessions to go, we hope you have enjoyed our autumn/winter HAPPI Hour series as much as we have!

All forthcoming HAPPI Hour webinars:

• Dementia Friendly Technology - Still Rising to the Dementia Challenge
  10/12/2024 3:30pm - 5:15pm
   
• Is the future DIY cohousing? Can we do it for ourselves?
  19/12/2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm

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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 Research and Advisory Services.