This week’s HLINks: 11 - 15 January 2021
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and my weekly piece to audio to coincide with our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 15 January. Is it me or does everyone feel like there has been a year’s worth of news in the first two weeks of 2021 already?!
In the light of this, we don’t want to overwhelm you so we produce HLINks so that you can dip in and out of the key issues that may be of specific interest to you.
This week, we published a guest blog on how Silva Homes’ has worked to support their older residents during the first two lockdowns. And, if you work in retirement villages or extra care housing, St Monica Trust have extended the deadline of the national RE-COV survey. We are keen to hear how your organisation has managed during the pandemic.
And further to last week’s #HousingMatters on Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative, this week they released Morya Riseborough’s interview with the Housing LIN SW Leadership Set member, Louise Drew of Shakespeare Martineau, on her take on the retirement living market.
In this week’s HLINks, you can also take tour of our curated round-up of other news and events on later life living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more, including the new Housing Forum report out today entitled ‘Older and Wiser’.
In other news, this week we kicked off the TAPPI (Technology for an Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation) Inquiry. Funded by Dunhill Medical Trust, over the next few months, we will bringing together a panel of industry experts and witnesses to explore the scope for a cross-cutting framework that ensures that technology supports an integrated approach to meeting the needs and aspirations of an ageing population.
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Thanks for listening, stay connected and, above all, be safe during the new lockdown.
Jeremy
In next week’s HLINks
And in next week's news, we look forward to publishing a new Housing LIN viewpoint by a team led by the University of Bristol on their work on what collaborative housing offers in a pandemic.
Lastly, the Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.