Housing LIN Summit 2020 – Reaching for the Top

This session will focus on innovations in designing HAPPI age-friendly housing that best promote independence and feelings of community, sharing the learning from examples of what has worked well.

Chair: Jenny Buterchi, Partner, PRP ~ @PRP_News

Speakers:

• Collaboration and Learning - Ian Fletcher, Preconstruction Manager, Willmott Dixon ~ @WillmottDixon (opens new window)
• Trafford Limelight - Graham Locke, Director, PRP ~ @PRP_News
• Radically Accessible Wildly Engaging places to live - Carly Dickson, Architectural designer and researcher ~ @carly_dickson (opens new window)_

This session will look at the later living market and features the environmental and social benefits of village life in retirement, especially with Covid-19 in mind.

Chair: Louise Drew, Head of Real Estate, Shakespeare Martineau ~ @LouiseDrewLaw (opens new window) @SHMALaw (opens new window)

Speakers:

• What's the right move? Should I stay or should I go? - Louise Drew, Head of Real Estate, Shakespeare Martineau ~ @LouiseDrewLaw (opens new window) @SHMALaw (opens new window)
• Village Living : Social by Design - Wendy Griffin, Main Board Director, Nicol Thomas ~ @wendygriffin1 (opens new window)
• Making life easier - Shirley Hall, Head of Innovation and Wellbeing, ExtraCare Charitable Trust ~ @ExtraCareOrgUk

This session explores how we can support local communities to become more resilient if we design and build the right homes, engage with a diverse range of community groups and offer person-centred services that deliver outcomes that they want.

Chair: Paula Broadbent, Retirement Solutions Director, Lifestyle by ENGIE ~ @PaulaBUK (opens new window) @ENGIE_UK (opens new window)

Speakers:

• It’s all about Lifestyle choices - Paula Broadbent, Retirement Solutions Director, Lifestyle by ENGIE ~ @PaulaBUK (opens new window) @ENGIE_UK (opens new window)
• Innovate, collaborate and create - Andrew Prickett, Director - UK Head of Residential, Faithful+Gould @apprickett @fgouldconnect
• Transforming Our Service Offer - David Rice, Business Development Director, Guinness Care @GuinnessCare (opens new window)

This session will provide an overview of the Housing LIN’s new online directory of collaborative community-led projects for all ages, highlighting exciting examples from Cambridge and Madrid.

Chair: Paul Watson, Managing Director, Guinness Care ~ @GuinnessCare

Speakers:

• CollaborAGE - Margaret Edwards, London Regional Chair, Housing LIN
• Living in Cohousing - Frances Wright, cohousing resident, Marmalade Lane ~ @10MLFrances; @CambridgeK1 & Jenny Borden, cohousing resident, Marmalade Lane ~ @JennyBorden (opens new window); @still_green
• Communitary care and healthy ageing in vulnerable neighbourhoods. Study case: project Mercado Habitado (Reinventing Cities Madrid - Spain) - Elisa Pozo Menéndez, architect and urban planner, MIT'A studio ~ @ElisaPozoMdez

Drawing on the experiences of senior sector leaders and the Housing LIN’s Future Leaders programme, this session will shine the spotlight on the importance of creative leadership and the key ingredients required to enable service transformation.

Chair: Bruce Moore, Chief Executive, Housing 21

Speakers:

• The How, What and Why of Housing and Care Leadership - Bruce Moore, Chief Executive, Housing 21 ~ @Housing21 (opens new window)
• Thirteen – creating a great day at work - Chris Smith, Executive Director of Service Delivery and Development, Thirteen ~ @thirteenchris (opens new window) @Thirteen_Group (opens new window)
• Leading social change in later life through startup innovation - Ella Moonan-Howard, Gerontology Research Fellow, Zinc.vc ~ @MoonanHowarde (opens new window) @zincvc (opens new window)

This session will examine the potential for smart homes and mobilising new technologies in a connected world to support healthy ageing and wellbeing.

Chair: Zillah Moore, Marketing Director, Tunstall Healthcare ~ @TunstallHealth

Speakers:

• Winter pressures: how care tech in the home offers continuity of support - with Zillah Moore, UK & Ireland Marketing Director, Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Ltd
• myKiosk - Remote Observations in Care Homes - with Joanne Dorsman, Neighbourhood Transformation Programme Manager, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
• How SMaRT use PNC to support a wider cohort of customers - with Sarah Wiest, Centre manager at SMaRT, Nottingham Community Housing Association

This session will highlight a range of pioneering schemes from the UK and elsewhere in Europe and how we can build stronger communities for all ages.

Chair: Gita Prasad, Eastern Regional Chair, Housing LIN and Strategic Commissioner at NHS Clinical Commissioning Group ~ @GitaDreams (opens new window)

Speakers:

• New and not so new opportunities in intergenerational housing - Stephen Burke, Director, United for All Ages ~ @united4allages (opens new window)
• A collaborative journey towards age-friendly urban communities - Nigel Saunders, Director, Pozzoni Architecture ~ @Pozzoni_Arch (opens new window)
• Building community connection through intergenerational volunteering - Charlotte Whittaker, Co-founder, InCommon ~ @incommonlondon (opens new window)

This session will showcase innovative, cutting edge approaches to deliver smarter home adaptations to meet the grand housing challenge on ageing.

Chair: Yvonne Castle, CEO, Johnnie Johnson Housing ~ @yvonnecastle @JJHousingTrust

Speakers:

• A new deal for now and the future! - Kathryn Fox-Rogers, Executive Director of Homes and Services, Johnnie Johnson Housing ~ @Kathryn_JJH @JJHousingTrust
• Invisible Creations: Design for Dignity - Laura Wood, Co-Founder & Marketing Director, Invisible Creations ~ @LittleLoraWood (opens new window) @InvisCreations (opens new window)
• Rethinking the Independent Living Offer ~ Joe McLoughlin, Director Astraline and Innovation, Johnnie Johnson Housing Trust ~ @TECSDirector @_Astraline

This session will take a tour of the latest innovations in refurbishment to create aspirational homes through contemporary interior designs, adaptations and repairs.

Chair: Ed Warner, Founder & CEO, Motionspot ~ @motionEd (opens new window)

Speakers:

• Designing beautiful, future-proofed homes with innovative smart adaptations - Ed Warner, Founder & CEO, Motionspot ~ @motionEd (opens new window)
• Adaptations without delay - Rachel Russell, Occupational Therapist, Researcher, and Lecturer at University of Salford ~ @bronteot (opens new window)
• Healthy Homes, Healthy Lives - Naomi Kingsley, Chief Executive, London Rebuilding Society ~ @LRebuildingS (opens new window)

This session calls for the improved accessibility of our homes and the way in which we plan and design in quality from the outset for all.

Chair: Susan Kay, Executive Director, Dunhill Medical Trust ~ @dunhillmedical (opens new window)

Speakers:

• Campaigning to boost provision of accessible homes - Nicholas Bungay, Director of Strategy & External Affairs, Habinteg ~ @Habinteg @nic_bungay
• Can smart homes meet the needs of our ageing population: The challenges of implementation - Dr Gemma Burgess, Acting Director, Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, University of Cambridge ~ @CCHPR1
• Inclusive Accessible Design: Lessons learnt from COVID - Kathryn Gundry, Project Architect & Mark Slater, Director, Archadia ~ @ArchadiaArch