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In this new Housing LIN Viewpoint 106, Tony Watts OBE, writer and co-founder of the Age Action Alliance, highlights the lack of planning conditions to ensure new homes are suitable for aging individuals. He proposes four necessary actions to address this issue.

Welcome to this week's edition of HLINks, your go-to e-bulletin for all things related to housing with care. This week, we make an exciting announcement with St Monica Trust, publish a new Housing LIN Case Study, share the HAPPI Hour webinar recording, and lots more! 

A number of HAPPI-inspired projects have been shortlisted for this year’s Housing Design Awards. Organised by Design for Homes, the submissions include a selection of affordable and high-end accommodation for older people.

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.

As long-term supporters of the Housing LIN, we are delighted to announce that St Monica Trust – the Bristol-based charity with a reputation for providing high-quality accommodation and innovative care for older people – has officially come on board as a corporate sponsor of the Housing LIN’s South West webpages and newly reformed South West region Leadership Set.

With inadequate national dementia friendly housing policy direction and limited investment in dementia training for housing professionals, the Dementia Housing Working Group is relaunching itself as the only national group taking this agenda forward.

Next week's HAPPI Hour, in collaboration with Brunelcare, will explore supporting people in social housing and the cost of living crisis. Join us on Tuesday, 30 May from 4pm as we reflect on the impact of the cost of the living crisis both from an operational and customers/residents perspective.

Following January's launch of the latest APPG on Housing and Care for Older People inquiry report, we are delighted to welcome Inquiry Chair, Lord Best, who will highlight the key findings and recommendations from the report.

Research published in a new report suggests that living in almshouses can reduce the negative impact on health and social wellbeing which is commonly experienced by the older population in lower socioeconomic groups.

This new Housing LIN Case Study (167), written by Stephen Maraj, Sales Manager at Saffron Housing Trust, describes Swallowtail Place, a 58-apartment, mixed-tenure Independent Community Living Plus scheme that combats social loneliness and isolation by promoting a sense of community.