The Scottish Government has set out what it wants housing and communities to look and feel like for the people of Scotland, including key measures for older people and people with disabilities.
Ahead of the official launch of the Learning Disability and Autism Housing Network Charter at this month’s NHF Summit, we are delighted to announce that Golden Lane Housing has joined the Housing LIN's family of sponsors.
Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly update, week ending 12 March 2021 in which we feature the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.
The University of Stirling have got the green light from the UK Research & Innovation healthy ageing challenge to research into designing homes for healthy cognitive Ageing: Co-Production for impact and scale. The Housing LIN is delighted to be one of the non-academic partners to create future-proof housing to meet the needs of the world’s ageing population.
We are working with Learning Disability England to produce 2 guides on choosing and finding where to live. We are looking for examples of information or ways of working that people think are good.
We look forward to sharing with you the exciting things we have planned for 2021 to coincide with the Housing LIN’s 10th anniversary independent of government. In the meantime, looking back at 2020, here are some headline facts and figures.
This new guest blog considers how people are beginning to think further ahead and reassess their housing priorities and future-proof their options for later life.
Welcome to this week’s HLINks, the Housing LIN’s weekly update, week ending 5 March 2021 in which we feature the sector’s key news, views and essential resources through the lens of housing and ageing.
This blog gives an overview of Anchor Hanover's partnership with the charity Re-engage and how this enabled them to reengineer their BeSupportive volunteering programme to provide a companionship call programme to address the loneliness and isolation felt by residents during the pandemic.
This report by Octavia Housing identifies the effectiveness of outreach, befriending and activity engagement services in reducing the the experience of loneliness and isolation amongst older residents.
