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In this new Housing LIN guest blog, David Burgher, Director and Founder of VR-EP, reveals how and why VR-EP created an immersive VR experience as a tool to help architects understand how to design dementia friendly spaces.

Hosted by MenCap, Learning Disability Awareness Week is an annual campaign which raises awareness on what it's like to live with a learning disability. It aims to help remove stigma and discrimination and educate more people about learning disabilities. This year, Learning Disability Awareness Week takes place between 20th – 26th June 2022.

This new Housing LIN guest blog explores the ongoing partnership between Places for People Living Plus, Lovell Later Living and the Morgan Sindall Group that is helping local authorities to deliver Extra Care housing developments in Hampshire and Norfolk, and is committed to assisting local authorities to fulfil their commitment to creating heathy communities for older and vulnerable people.

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 ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s Engaged Lives: End of Project Report 2022 and a new report published by ARCO on The Scottish Housing-with-Care Taskforce.

Smplicare, a software startup based in Edinburgh, is conducting one of the largest studies ever involving wearables and older people to develop AI that predicts the risk of falls. They're looking to partner with leading organisations like yours to recruit research participants for this large-scale study.

Hosted by Marmalade Trust, Loneliness Awareness Week is an annual campaign which raises awareness of loneliness. This year’s Loneliness Awareness Week takes place between the 13th – 17th June 2022 and the Housing LIN would like to daw attention to a range of resources and tools hosted on the ‘Combating loneliness and reducing social isolation’ webpages.

This report, published by Foundations and produced in partnership with Habinteg and Anchor Hanover with support from Taylor Wimpey, follows the publication of the Independent Review of DFG in 2018 and provides guidance on delivering better home adaptations in social 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 a blog by Appello on digital telecare and technology enabled care and an article by Policy Connect on the need to link housing with health and wellbeing.

The Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid has welcomed the publication of an independent review of health and adult social care leadership, led by General Sir Gordon Messenger and Dame Linda Pollard - and, in what will be the biggest shake-up in health and social care leadership in a generation, is accepting all seven transformative recommendations they have put forward.

This Housing LIN guest blog, by Michelle Anderson-Dore, Head of Housing Management & Partnerships at Kirklees Council, follows the launch of ‘Older People from Ethnic Minorities in Kirklees: Housing Needs and Preferences Study’, new research revealing how preferences in the ageing ethnic minority population affects housing needs in Kirklees.