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Following the joint publication of the 'Smoking and social housing: Supporting residents addressing inequalities' report by ASH and the Housing LIN, this new guest blog by Sarah Davis, Senior Policy and Practice Officer at the Charted Institute of Housing, argues how social housing providers are valuable partners for health and social care, working to improve the health and wellbeing of people and communities.

Today marks the launch of the Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Action Week, a national campaign to encourage people to ‘act on dementia’. This year’s campaign takes place 16 – 22 May, and the official theme is diagnosis. That’s why, in support of this year’s theme, the Housing LIN would like to draw attention to a selection of resources about dementia-friendly housing.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and takes a look at other items that caught our interest, including Appello's new guide on 'Managing the Transition to Digital Telecare: How to engage your customers' and information for older people in Greater Manchester (GM) on housing options, shared by GM Older People's Network.

Appello launched a new guide in an ongoing series focused on managing the transition to digital telecare. The guide covers when to engage your customers and how your aims with this will change at different stages of the project.

The Housing LIN was pleased to work alongside Kirklees Council on the ‘The Older People from Ethnic Minorities (OPEM) in Kirklees: Housing Needs and Preferences Study’ that revealed how preferences in Kirklees’ ageing ethnic minority population affects housing (and housing related support) needs across the district. 

New research, conducted in collaboration between ASH and the Housing LIN, outlines the case for reducing rates of smoking in the social housing sector as part of social landlords’ health and wellbeing activity and the action needed to achieve this.

Today marks the launch of Mental Health Awareness Week, the UK’s national week to raise awareness of mental health. The week's theme, which is hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, is ‘Loneliness’. The Housing LIN celebrates by drawing attention to a selection of Mental Health and Loneliness and Later Living resources.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and takes a look at other items that caught our interest, including UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge's new Smart Grant and an article on why the future of technology enabled care is in the hands of the user and carer by TSA.

It’s Dying Matters Awareness Week and the Housing LIN shows support by putting the spotlight on a selection of Bereavement & End of Life Care resources, including the Octavia and St Christopher’s CARE suite of resources which was recently launched at one of our HAPPI Hours.

This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and takes a look at other items that caught our interest, including the Welsh Government's 'Strategy for an ageing society: Delivery plan' and The Church of England's 'Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care - Listening and Engagement Exercise'.