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We're pleased to officially launch a new microsite for this year's Housing LIN Summit - A Festival of Ideas! Find out more about each of the 10 Summit sessions, this year's inspiring speakers and our generous sponsors for making this event possible!

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.

This Housing LIN Summit session highlights the importance of creating age-friendly homes and communities for living well in later life, delving into Lovell Later Living's (LLL) investments in a diverse range of developments, all geared towards providing a lifelong home and fostering a thriving community for residents. 

We're pleased to collaborate with Appello to bring you this Ultimate Guide to Telecare, an introduction to the fundamentals of telecare, with information on how housing providers can maximise their care and support offer so people can enjoy a greater quality of life.

Building on December's HAPPI Awareness Week, which focused on the 15-year anniversary of the HAPPI panel, we are delighted to collaborate with award-winning architects at PRP for this session on designing a new generation of housing for people in later life. 

The Housing LIN is pleased to announce that through a partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), we are developing a new, comprehensive demand modelling tool for housing suited to an ageing population.

What is the latest consumer research into the housing preferences of older people? This Housing LIN Summit session will answer this and provide examples of how the specialist housing sector should respond to better market its later living offer.

We're pleased to collaborate with Appello to bring you this Ultimate Guide to Telecare, an introduction to the fundamentals of telecare, with information on how housing providers can maximise their care and support offer so people can enjoy a greater quality of life.

With the government's Older People's Housing Taskforce in full swing and due to report in 2024, we are thrilled to kick off this year's annual Summit (virtual) with a session on the past, present and future of extra care housing.

This week's newsletter shares an update from the APPG Inquiry on the regeneration of outdated sheltered housing, a new report from the Collaborative Housing and Innovation in Care (CHIC) research project, upcoming sector-wide events supported by Housing LIN and more.