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Welcome to this week’s HLINks: the Housing LIN’s weekly bulletin, week ending 30 October 2020 for the latest sector news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.

This report by the British Property Federation aims an understanding of the housing options available to older people in the UK.

This jointly produced report produced by Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG and Nottingham City Homes presents findings on the strengths and areas for improvement of the local work carried out to identify patients in hospital or in the community living in unsuitable housing.

This report from West Yorkshire and Harrogate partnership provides housing professionals to work together to tackle health inequalities in the region, through investment into housing and targeted support.

A collaborative venture involving seven health and social care partners in central Scotland has led to the launch of a joint version of the AskSARA online self-assessment tool. Backed by EquipU the community equipment partnership the new service will be promoted to residents across a wide area reaching a population of 2.46 million.

This web-based report by NatWest provides key statistics and information about re-mortgaging.

The Campaign to End Loneliness has published a new guide to help understand and address the impact of Covid-19 on loneliness in the UK.

This Housing LIN Case Study (No 160) captures the key design characteristics of the award-wining Hanham Hall, outside Bristol.

In partnership with RCOT, we have now devised this short survey and are interested to know how Adaptations Without Delay is being used by personnel involved in the home adaptation process, and whether the guide has been of benefit to you, your service and your service users. Please take part and have your say by 5pm on Friday, 13 November 2020. It should take no longer than 5 - 10 minutes to complete.

This report collates data from several individual housing operators and multi-provider studies from the Housing and Dementia Research Consortium to provide figures for the prevalence of dementia among residents of extra care housing settings in the UK.