SFHA - Supporting Independence at Home

Event date

You will hear from

Carol Anne Timlin, a tenant from Horizon Housing Association who will talk about:

  • her lived experience of the impact of moving to accessible housing   

Amanda Miller, Director of Community Services, Eildon Housing, will talk about

  • The model and purpose of their extra care housing model
  • Opportunities for new build models and retro fit existing
  • The benefits for older people in the community
  • Partnership work with health and social care (including funding model)

Alistair McCarthur, Maryhill HA will talk about

  • Principles of inclusive design
  • their approach to developing easily adaptable new homes
  • Making housing for older people a home for life

Lucy Fraser, Head of Innovation at Albyn Housing Society will talk about

  • Benefits and potential of technology to support people at home
  • The ethics - taking a person-centred approach
  • Flexible allocation of housing
  • Partnership working
  • Lessons learned

Who should attend?

This webinar is aimed at practitioners and policy makers in housing health and social care.

Costs and how to book

This session is FREE to attend. It is taking place on Tuesday, 7 December 2021 at 4.00pm.

To book your place, click here (opens new window).

This session will be broadcast live on Zoom.

You will receive the link for the session around 24 hours before the session is due to start which you will use on the day to access it.