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New Blog

Realising the potential of assistive technology in social housing

Technology Enabled Care can bring great benefits to the social housing sector, says Rupert Lawrence. Assistive technology can enhance independence, health and well-being, but also promote tenancy sustainability and wider business improvement.

• Realising the potential of assistive technology in social housing

Housing for Older People

• Leanne Owen (Faithful + Gould) - Housing LIN Annual Conference 2019
• Can University Retirement Communities Reverse Aging?
• An Older Issue - Downsizing in the UK
• Tech in retirement: the future’s bright
• Suitable housing for later life
• A Linc Cymru scheme manager talks about her role (video)

Care and Support

Embedding Community Circles in Support for Older People Living in Residential Care Homes or Extra Care

For the last two years Community Circles have been working with Wigan Council and the providers of residential care and extra care support in the Borough to explore how Circles can help increase person and community centred support.

• Embedding Community Circles in Support for Older People Living in Residential Care Homes or Extra Care

Free personal care: how to eliminate catastrophic costs

This report focuses on one of the significant benefits of free personal care, namely, how it can eliminate catastrophic costs for all older people receiving care.

• Free personal care: how to eliminate catastrophic costs

Learning Disability and Autism

Making Greater Manchester Autism Friendly

This strategy aims to make Greater Manchester a place where people can get a timely diagnosis, meet professionals with a good understanding of autism, find services, organisations and employers that make reasonable adjustments when required, and where people can feel safe, have aspirations and fulfil their potential.

• Making Greater Manchester Autism Friendly

Housing and Ageing

Tackling Intergenerational Unfairness

A new report by the House of Lords Committee on Intergenerational Fairness and Provision contains key policy recommendations on housing.

• Tackling intergenerational unfairness

Housing and Dementia

• £20m centre to enable people with dementia to live in own homes for longer

Health and Housing

Housing as a social determinant of health: evidence from the Housing through Social Enterprise study

This was a three-year ESRC/MRC-funded piece of research, led by Glasgow Caledonian University and carried out by the University of Stirling in collaboration with GCPH. It explored the potential role of social enterprises in protecting and enhancing the health of low-income and otherwise vulnerable households in Glasgow.

• Housing as a social determinant of health: evidence from the Housing through Social Enterprise study

Events

Housing LIN Events

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

Promoted by Housing LIN

• Assistive technology for people living with dementia: the aspirational and the achievable - 23rd May
• Appello digital Smart Living Solutions Webinar and Q&A - 15th June

Tunstall Digital Journey Roadshow

• 1 May - Coventry
• 2 May - Huntingdon
• 8 May - Livingston
• 14 May - Bury
• 15 May - Conwy
• 16 May - Durham
• 21 May - Ilminster
• 22 May - Newport
• 4 June - London

Next Week

Next week we publish our new video hub with a call for funding for our new video series, and we also publish two new blogs on Building Information Modelling and modern methods of construction.