HLINks: What does Brexit mean for housing with care?, new blogs, and housing news.

New Housing LIN Briefing

Deal or No Deal? How will Brexit affect the housing with care and supported housing market?

There has been commentary and reports in the national and professional press about the UK’s planned exit from the EU on 29 March 2019 and the concerns of the impact on the NHS; for example, workforce issues and stockpiling medicines.

However, whether it's Deal or No Deal, very little has been reported on the implications on the housing with care and supported housing sector. For this reason, we surveyed our members to find out what contingency and other plans have been made and to capture their views.

• Deal or No Deal? - Read Now

New Housing LIN Blogs

Will It Add Value To Your Home?

Continuing her series on adapting her home for accessibility, Margaret Edwards asks about the value that adaptations can bring to a property.

• Will It Add Value To Your Home?

Intergenerational Living - a new way of living the old way

Intergenerational living is nothing new - What is new is society’s recent obsession with segregating people by age. Justin Shee of Kohab has written a guest blog for us about a new way of living the old way.

• Intergenerational Living - a new way of living the old way

Housing and Older People

• Knight Frank launches inaugural Senior Living Guide
• Report reveals London’s downsizing needs with £62bn at stake
• Wadswick Green by Octopus Healthcare (video)

Intergenerational Living

• How intergenerational care can change Britain

Health and Housing

• The cost of unhealthy housing to the NHS, House of Commons, 26 February 2019 (LGA briefing)
• Helping Hospital Patients to Get Home (Suffolk)

Ageing

• New report finds Britons are "overwhelmingly negative" about growing older

Care Homes

• A game of two halves? Understanding the process and outcomes of English care home closures

Retirement Living

• Learning lessons from retirement living across the world
• Solihull Village by Extra Care Charitable Trust

Events

Housing LIN Events

• Eastern Region Housing LIN Meeting - Walton-on-the-Naze - 11/6

Promoted by Housing LIN

• Meeting Expectations with Digital Telecare - Doncaster - 1/5
• Meeting Expectations with Digital Telecare - Bedfordshire - 3/4

Next Week

We release a guide on how to develop community-led approaches to age-friendly housing in Central Bedfordshire and a new guest blog from Katey Twyford, our dementia co-lead, on exploring how to develop effective services to reduce loneliness in extra care housing.