We look forward to sharing with you the exciting things we have planned for 2021 to coincide with the Housing LIN’s 10th anniversary independent of government. In the meantime, looking back at 2020, here are some headline facts and figures.
This new guest blog considers how people are beginning to think further ahead and reassess their housing priorities and future-proof their options for later life.
Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly update, week ending 5 March 2021 in which we feature the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.
This blog gives an overview of Anchor Hanover's partnership with the charity Re-engage and how this enabled them to reengineer their BeSupportive volunteering programme to provide a companionship call programme to address the loneliness and isolation felt by residents during the pandemic.
This report by Octavia Housing identifies the effectiveness of outreach, befriending and activity engagement services in reducing the the experience of loneliness and isolation amongst older residents.
Further to last month’s launch of the new APPG inquiry report on housing and dementia, this blog emphasises the interdependency between Housing, Social Care and the NHS in supporting people with dementia and how getting this right prevents the need for higher cost services.
Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly update, week ending 26 February 2021 in which we feature the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.
Further to the call for evidence for examples and research on how the use of technology has transformed how you operate, design and build new or retrofit existing homes and/or deliver better outcomes for your customers, the deadline has now been extended to the end of March.
