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Housing LIN Blog

Housing Solutions – an early intervention approach

In their guest blog for the Housing LIN, Jill Pritchard & Alison Docherty set out how HealthCare Improvement Scotland’s Adapting for Change programme adopted an early intervention approach to achieve better integrated housing solutions for people in Scotland.

They show that by ensuring that a wide range of practitioners can engage with service users at the earliest possible opportunity health and wellbeing outcomes can be significantly improved, and housing has a big part to play in this. This blog will be of interest to anyone working in housing with care or specialist housing within a Scottish context.

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New Guide

Later Living: Housing with Care – A Good Practice Guide

Launching today, and featuring a contribution from the Housing LIN, this new guide published by The Urban Land Institute sets out examples of innovative practice within the emerging later living sector for funders, developers, architects, and operators.

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Housing and Ageing

• Resolution Foundation Report: Ageing, fast and slow: When place and demography collide
• Erosh Guide: LGBT+ Older People and Sheltered & Retirement Housing (Erosh membership required for access)
• Inside Housing: We must stop treating older people as problems to be siloed in retirement homes
• The Guardian: The solution to ageing Britain’s housing crisis? Build almshouses
• The Independent: It’s not just millennials facing a housing crisis… older renters are suffering too
• Urban Edge: The expert view on senior living

Design, Planning, and Technology

• Andrew Black Consulting: Healthier and Happier
• Journal of Social Work: Outcomes for older telecare recipients: The importance of assessments

Health and Social Care

• NHS Digital: Three reports providing official adult social care statistics released by NHS Digital today
• Savills: Elderly Care Homes Briefing
• NLGN: Participation is all the rage. But how can we ensure it includes everyone?
• In Control report: Talking about a brighter social care future

Scottish News

• CIH Report: Housing and Dementia Practice Framework: A practice framework for support Scotland’s housing sector

Housing LIN Events

• Midlands Region Housing LIN Meeting
• North West Housing LIN Regional Meeting
• South West Housing LIN Regional Meeting
• South East Housing LIN Regional Meeting

Events promoted by the Housing LIN

• LICHFIELD HOUSING FOCUS GROUPS FOR PEOPLE AGED 60+
• Retirement Living Conference
• The annual RCOTSS-Housing Conference 2019
• Appello - Digital Telecare Webinar and Q&A
• Ageing Better Report Launch: How HA's can reduce social isolation and loneliness

Next Week

Next week we feature a guest blog by Gita Prasad, co-chair of the East of England Housing LIN, about her Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship on intergenerational living in Holland and Denmark.

We are also pleased to be a member of a new Coalition for Accessible Housing that is being launch next week. More details to follow.

With Thanks

The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.