HLINks: Housing with care survey, new HLIN blog, new resources, and news from the specialist housing sector
The Housing LIN, in partnership with EAC, has launched a survey asking about housing with care. We’ve published several new resources on our website this week. We also have a new blog about tackling loneliness in retirement communities. And we have our usual roundup of news from the housing with care and the specialist housing sector.
Housing LIN and EAC Survey
Growing housing with care: an in-depth survey
The Housing LIN wants to know what the demand for housing for care is, and what it will be over the next 5 years.
We know there is a shortfall in supply (recently estimated at 30,000 units per year), but how is the sector responding to this?
Working with the Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) we’ve created a survey to measure the demand for housing with care.
Housing LIN blog
‘Please disturb’ - tackling loneliness in a retirement living community
Recent research show that up to 1.9 million older people in the UK feel ignored or invisible. The housing sector has a large role to play in addressing this.
Our latest guest blog looks at tackling loneliness in retirement communities. Published to coincide with the UN International Day of Older People #UNIDOP2019 it was written for the Housing LIN by Sara Keetley of Sanctuary Housing Group.
Housing and Ageing
Place-Age - Place-Making with Older Adults: Towards Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
This report features the results of a three-year research project by Heriot-Watt University.
The report makes recommendations for age-friendly policies and practice, and draws on research from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Manchester.
Fortifying futures: how older boomerangers in English multigenerational households boost resilience through social capital accumulation and distribution
This research paper from the Sheffield Hallam University explore the links between theories of social capital and the concept of family resilience and how this interfaces with an understanding of what a multigenerational home means from a housing context.
It also assesses how multigenerational homes can help build social capital and considers the viability of doing so.
News
Design, Planning, and Technology
National Design Guide
The government’s National Design Guide sets out the characteristics of well-designed places and demonstrates what good design means in practice.
It provides a blueprint for how local authorities can achieve quality and great design, and recommends what developers need to deliver to help win the support of communities – ensuring new homes are built quicker and better.
The guide makes specific reference to the need for well-designed, accessible homes that are socially inclusive, healthy and also meet the housing needs of an ageing population. There is reference to the HAPPI design principles and the online resources on the Housing LIN website.
News
- World Health Organisation: WHO launches digital app to improve care for older people
- The Guardian: Innovative solutions to the UK’s housing crisis
- The Housing Forum: MMC for affordable housing developers A Housing Forum guide to overcoming challenges and barriers
- YouTube: Invisible Creations - Taste Of Independence
Health and Social Care
Act to Adapt
This report from the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association calls for better access to housing adaptations for people with MND.
News
- UK Research and Innovation: Healthy Ageing Challenge funding opportunities
- Skills for Care: The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England
- Care Management Matters: We Have a Dream – Reframing the Social Care Conversation
Events
Housing LIN Events
Events Promoted by the Housing LIN
Next Week
Next week we have a Housing LIN guest blog by Chris Dodd, managing director of Legrand, ‘From analogue to digital technology enabled care’.
With Thanks
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.