This week’s HLINks: 14 - 18 June 2021

Welcome to #Jeremytalks (opens new window) and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks (opens new window), week-ending Friday, 18th June 2021 to coincide with both Loneliness Awareness Week and Learning Disability Week.

This week we published a guest blog by John Tonkiss, McCarthy Stone’s Chief Executive on their approach to becoming a dementia-friendly organisation.

And yesterday, over 100 people signed up to join our latest HAPPI Hour session on Housing with Pride. We heard from a selection of contributions on the housing needs and aspirations of older LGBT community from Surrey University’s Professor Andy King, Tonic Housing and One Housing Group, the LGBT Foundation and Anchor Hanover.

You can also take a tour of other news and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. We highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:

An evaluation report on Derby City Council’s Local Area Coordination project
A new report by New Philanthropy Capital on tips to help your remote project tackle loneliness
Information on Ipsos Mori’s survey for NHS England and Improvement on the future of digital in adult social care
news that the University of Worcester have been awarded a grant to undertake further research into extra care housing and dementia, and
A new report by Public Health Scotland on healthy housing.

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Stay connected and, above all, with further lockdown arrangements delayed for the time being, remain safe.

Jeremy

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.