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For this year's World Alzheimer's Day, we're happy to share this new guest blog from Occupational Therapy lecturer Dr Aisling Flynn, who shares her independent evaluation of a dementia and housing training pilot for West Yorkshire housing staff, delivered by the Alzheimer's Society. The findings point to the value of role-specific dementia training and offer learning for the wider housing sector.

In this week's edition, we mark Scottish Housing Day with a new CIH Scotland report and HLIN guest blog, and look ahead to next week's four nations HAPPI Hour, as well as tomorrow's opening session on HAPPI design featuring another recent blog author. Our recruitment for a Research Officer concludes this week, and plenty more that caught our interest.

Harris Irwin Architects celebrated the opening of a new southern office in Kingston Upon Thames this week, marking a major milestone for the growing practice. Long-standing Housing LIN sponsors, Harris Irwin are renowned for their award-winning residential and extra care designs across the UK.

To coincide with Scottish Housing Day, CIH Scotland and partners have launched a new report exploring the many ways in which housing impacts every aspect of health, and makes a number of recommendations for the Scottish government.

Looking ahead to a later-life in rural Scotland, Julia Wait began to explore whether community-led housing could offer an alternative to the traditional options, and used an AI assistant to help turn her ideas into a proposal for a national cohousing framework.

Ahead of the HAPPI Hour webinar on 22 September, Elke Ielegems of the HOUSE research project shares findings questioning whether simply staying at home is enough – and explores what it really takes for a place to support someone as they grow older.

In this week's HLINks, we mark National Inclusion Week with a spotlight on shared resources with Learning Disability England (LDE), open bookings for our new autumn/winter HAPPI Hour series starting 22 September, and launch Housing LIN's search for a Research Officer, among the week's other news and event headlines.

The Housing LIN is looking for a Research Officer with qualitative research experience to join our consultancy and research team on a fixed-term basis. This is an opportunity to work directly with people with lived experience and help ensure their views and experiences inform supported housing needs assessments and strategies across England.

United St Saviour's Charity has an exciting opportunity for individuals to join its Board as Chair and as two new Trustees, helping lead the Southwark-based charity into its next chapter.

We're delighted to launch our Autumn/Winter HAPPI Hour webinar series. Running from September through December, the programme includes landmark events such as the launch of the SHAPE Challenge Fund, our annual HAPPI Awareness Week, and our 150th HAPPI Hour!