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This Housing LIN Viewpoint focuses on affordability and its relationship with age-friendly cities and communities.

This week's Housing LIN newsletter highlights Accessible Homes Week, World Alzheimer’s Month, new research, policy updates, partnerships, and thought leadership, offering insights and resources on housing, health, social care, dementia, accessibility, and collaborative approaches.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Neil Withnell, Specialist Housing Occupational Therapist at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, explores the importance of accessible social housing and the adoption of the London Accessible Housing Register (AHR) system in Gloucestershire.

The Housing LIN Future Leaders Programme, sponsored by Sovereign Housing Group, met online yesterday. We heard from Chan Kataria, Group Chief Executive of emh, and Susan Kay, CEO of the Vivensa Foundation, who shared their journeys into leadership.

Published by Policy Press in collaboration with the University of Bristol and the London School of Economics, this new book examines how collaborative housing could reshape care for Europe’s ageing population.

To coincide with Accessible Homes Week, Habinteg Housing Association has released new research findings that provide a forecast for accessible homes and make the link to accessible housing in local plans for the next 10 years.

Everon Group, a leading provider of digital health and care solutions, and Howz, specialists in behavioural monitoring and care analytics, have announced a new partnership across the UK, Finland and Sweden.

This new Housing LIN guest blog, written by Dr Dianne-Dominique Theakstone, Paula Rogers and Vikki McCall from the University of Stirling’s ISPA project, explores how disability, stigma, age and place intersect to shape everyday life.

HLINks returns after the summer break with a catch-up edition featuring housing, health, and social care updates, inclusive developments, Accessible Homes Week, HAPPI Hour webinars, awards, reports, policy insights, guest reflections, and more!

Access to adequate and safe housing is recognised as a human right according to the United Nations and one of the core elements is the accessibility of a dwelling. We are therefore proud to support Habinteg’s Accessible Homes Week to celebrate what an accessible home can do for a person's wellbeing, independence and overall quality of life.