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Design and Cost Considerations in Extra Care Housing

Written by Pozzoni Architecture and additional information supplied by RLB and CPC cost consultants, this new report, co-produced with the Housing LIN, aims to demonstrate that with careful consideration and the right tools, including useful new cost modelling, Extra Care will remain a viable and sustainable housing with care choice for residents, commissioners and funders, operators and developers.

How to…. Engage Residents in Sheltered & Retirement Housing

This new guide from Erosh (their members only) looks at resident engagement in a sheltered and retirement housing setting with good practice advice on minimising barriers and maximising the meaningful engagement of older people.

Patient Home Environment Checklist: Make your home falls free

This leaflet from the Sussex Health and Care Partnership provides a checklist for householders about hazards found in their home.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Supporting Residents in Retirement Housing and Extra Care Housing who experience Loneliness - An A-Z of examples

Compiled by a consortia of organisations led by the Retirement Housing Group and the Housing LIN, this briefing highlights how the retirement/sheltered housing and extra care housing sector is working closely with “extremely vulnerable” residents

Exploration and Discovery - Getting under the skin of it

This report from partners TLAP/SCIE and Shared Lives reports back on Phase II of the work undertaken by the Social Care Innovation Network. It seeks to discover how to develop, through learning groups, practical lessons on how we can develop the conditions in which innovations in social care can flourish or proliferate.

Event fees and housing with care: What now?

This guide by ARCO sets out the law and regulation of event fees in housing with care settings. It provides information on the current legal status of event fees, the Law Commission's proposed Code of Practice, and what the next steps are likely to be for the use of event fees in the housing with care sector.

An A-Z of Retirement Villages and Extra Care Schemes

We have created this A to Z of sheltered housing, retirement villages and extra care housing developments where one of the words in the scheme name begins with a letter of the alphabet. The list of 26 schemes is purely meant as a bit of light-hearted fun (#HLINfunday) in these difficult times. We welcome your suggestions, especially any schemes that have a U, X or Z at the beginning of the name of the scheme!

Social connection in the COVID-19 crisis

This report from the APPG on Social Integration presents initial findings from part one of the Inquiry and is about understanding the issues and sharing good practice in relation to social connectedness.

Community Support and Social Care: A new reality

This set of reports describes how Community Led Support results in benefits for people, building on those strong connections for local communities, as well as impacts on the public purse.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Changes to Welfare Benefits

This Housing LIN briefing (No 5) provides information for social landlords, local authorities and other organisations advising and supporting working age adults on welfare benefit changes under COVID-19, highlights examples of practice and signposts to latest government guidance and where to get further advice and support.

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