LINks - the Housing LIN's essential weekly bulletin (30 June)
NEW HOUSING LIN CASE STUDY
Location, location, location! Hare Hill, Littleborough in Rochdale: The perfect location for extra care (opens new window)
This case study describes Hare Hill, Rochdale Boroughwide Housing's flagship affordable housing development for the town's ageing population.
The purpose built extra care scheme consists of 43 apartments and is the first scheme of its kind to be provided within the Rochdale area. Drawing on HAPPI principles, Hare Hill has been designed to maximise residents' feeling of safety and security whilst also creating delineated areas of life and social activity.
The dementia friendly scheme is supported by attractive communal facilities which are open to the public, in combination with other areas which are exclusive to the scheme residents. The entrance and community café serve as focal communal areas, and are prominently located at the front of the scheme to welcome people into Hare Hill, setting an inviting and vibrant tone to the scheme.
NEW HOUSING LIN INSPIRATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
I-stay@home project (opens new window)
Our latest 'Inspirational Achievements' describes the work of Habinteg and their involvement in the pan-European I-stay@home research project, an investigation into how information communication technology (ICT) can support older and disabled people with some if the challenges associated with ageing and independent living.
NEW HOUSING LIN BLOG
Could front line workers hold the key to improving care in social housing? (opens new window)
To coincide with the CIH's annual conference and exhibition, Alyson Scurfield, CEO of the Telecare Services Association, makes the case that social landlords should be focusing their efforts on re-engineering health and care systems with technology enabled care so they integrate prevention into all frontline service delivery.
FUNDING, POLICY AND PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT
NHF Supported housing submission: A proposal for a strong and sustainable future for supported and sheltered housing (opens new window)
USEFUL NEW TOOLS AND REPORTS
A future of the welfare state thinkpiece (opens new window)
Retirement Living Briefing Note: Untapped potential in the Scottish retirement living sector (opens new window)
Number of retired renters soars by more than 200,000 in 4 years (opens new window)
Hearing the voices of older people in Wales: what helps and hinders us as we age? Research report (opens new window)
We must protect sheltered housing (opens new window)
Dementia and Diversity Guide (opens new window)
Support urged to increase social care digital service uptake - Government Computing Network (opens new window)
TELECARE LIN NEWSLETTER
Telecare News Headlines 30 June 2016
This week's news headlines from the Telecare LIN can be downloaded in two formats (doc; pdf) at:
- Telecare News Headlines 30 June 2016 (doc - 1.85Mb) (opens new window)
- Telecare News Headlines 30 June 2016 (pdf - 380Kb)
FORTHCOMING HOUSING LIN REGIONAL MEETING
- East Midlands Regional Housing LIN Meeting, Thursday 28th July 2016 (Save the date. Registrations will open soon.) (opens new window)
- Yorks & Humbers Regional Housing LIN Meeting - Wednesday 28th September 2016 (opens new window)
OTHER EVENTS SUPPORTED BY THE HOUSING LIN
Resilience in Older People: Focus on Resources (opens new window)
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