This report gives an update on the steps taken by the UK Government and the devolved administrations to implement recommendations from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to improve the lives of disabled people across the UK.
Written by Kevin McSorley, Head of Radius Connect24, this Housing LIN guest blog explores how housing services are approaching technology to support tenants, as well as his hopes for the digital future.
As we pause for a summer interlude with the Housing LIN e-newsletter, HLINks, let's catch a glimpse of noteworthy finds from the week ending Friday, 18th August 2023.
In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Mark Slater, Design Director at WWA Studios, reflects on the British Property Federation getting behind the older persons' sector and pushing for planning reform with a series of recommendations.
Welcome to TAPPI Cast, our weekly update on the 'Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation' (TAPPI) project which aims to improve the way technology is used in housing and care for older people.
The University of Stirling’s Designing Homes for Cognitive Ageing research project want to understand how well the houses in the UK support healthy cognitive ageing and dementia. To assist, if you have any residents aged 55 or over living in mainstream and specialist housing, they are invited to take part in an online survey that will take them through different rooms and spaces within the home, checking features and areas that are important and supportive of cognitive ageing.
This updated factsheet published by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities provides an update on palliative and end of life care: Patterns of care near end of life. The Patterns of care are related to 4 major conditions: cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia and respiratory disease.
The government has published its formal response to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee report, A “gloriously ordinary life”: spotlight on adult social care.
Watch a recording of the Housing LIN’s CEO, Jeremy Porteus, in conversation with the Founder and CEO of 2iC-Care, Richard Keyse, recorded at Housing 2023 in Manchester where they shared the stage as speakers at the TEC Theatre.
