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This Housing LIN Viewpoint (No 103) describes the support given to housing managers at the sheltered and extra care schemes that use Legrand’s technology and measures taken to improve standards for grouped living systems so they could digitally adapt to the new world of social distancing and remote working under Covid-19.

This Viewpoint (no 102) by the University of Cambridge's Centre for Housing and Planning Research draws on their recent research, funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, and suggests that there is a discrepancy in opinion about what telecare is for and the goals to be achieved, between telecare designers, suppliers, manufacturers, local authority commissioners, housing association managers, and the many others professionally engaged in rolling out telecare services.

This Housing LIN Viewpoint No 101 highlights how, during the Coronavirus pandemic, many social landlords have relied on monitoring and communication systems to keep vulnerable residents safe but also to enhance their quality of life as social isolation has become widespread.

Housing LIN viewpoint 99 looks at the Cockaigne houses in Hatfield and reflects on what lessons we can draw from the scheme.

This viewpoint considers the current standards and typologies of specialist supported housing provision for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

Housing LIN Viewpoint 97, by Dr Katey Twyford, focuses on the benefits to housing organisations of managerial coaching.

This Housing LIN Viewpoint no 73 argues that all of our residential neighbourhoods and communities - urban, suburban and rural - need to be considered as 'continuing care neighbourhoods', which are intergenerational,...

In this new Housing LIN Viewpoint no 72, Sue Garwood shares her current understanding of the position with regard to depriving someone of their liberty in a housing setting if they lack the mental capacity...

This Housing LIN Viewpoint no 65 is intended to stimulate consideration and debate on two separate, but related issues: Firstly, with the new and revised and more encompassing definition of "deprivation...

Following the government's response to Lord Filkin's 'Ready for Ageing?' report, the national network of Older People's Housing Champions has been developing a manifesto to take to the political parties...