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Knight Frank's market leading research examines the fundamentals of the private Senior Living market from the strong demographic landscape to sales and rental performance of the largest private operators.

In the latest Housing and Ageing Alliance members’ blog, Sarah Davis senior policy officer at the Chartered Institute of Housing makes the case for developing person centred approaches to making our homes fit for purpose for an ageing population in a time of climate change.

In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Clive Gilbert, Policy Manager at Policy Connect and a TAPPI Panel member, and Dr Hannah Marston at the Open University, draw attention to the government’s recent National Disability Strategy and considers how assistive technology can help enable disabled and older people achieve genuine choice and control.

Inspired by the HAPPI design principles, the Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) launches its Inquiry findings and recommendations on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 4pm.

Catch up! This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and takes a look at other stories that caught our interest.

The strategy aims to unlock the potential of today’s older people and tomorrow’s ageing society, and adopts a rights-based approach that promotes equality and social justice across a range of policy areas and places the older people’s voice at the core of Welsh Government policy making.

Ahead of appearing in our extended HAPPI Hour session on Intergenerational Living on Tuesday next week, 19 October 2021, we've published a joint Housing LIN guest blog by Matter Architecture's Roland Karthaus and United for All Ages' Stephen Burke.

Happy Friday! This week’s HLINks provides a comprehensive round-up of the latest Housing LIN news, views, resources and events and takes a look at other stories that caught our interest.

The Housing LIN Cymru welcome Joanne Kirrane as our new chair in Wales. Joanne has worked across health, social care and housing for over 25 years. She is based in South Wales and is the Executive Director of People, Homes and Communities at Melin Homes.

A new report, published by the Centre for Ageing Better, looks at the barriers people in their 50s and 60s face to walking and cycling, and argues that action is needed from national and local government, service providers and health systems to get people moving.