HLINks - Housing LIN’s weekly update at your fingertips!
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 18th June 2021 to coincide with both Loneliness Awareness Week and Learning Disability Week.
This week we published a guest blog by John Tonkiss, McCarthy Stone’s Chief Executive on their approach to becoming a dementia-friendly organisation.
And yesterday, over 100 people signed up to join our latest HAPPI Hour session on Housing with Pride. We heard from a selection of contributions on the housing needs and aspirations of older LGBT community from Surrey University’s Professor Andy King, Tonic Housing and One Housing Group, the LGBT Foundation and Anchor Hanover.
You can also take a tour of other news and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, planning matters and more. We highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:
- An evaluation report on Derby City Council’s Local Area Coordination project
- A new report by New Philanthropy Capital on tips to help your remote project tackle loneliness
- Information on Ipsos Mori’s survey for NHS England and Improvement on the future of digital in adult social care
- news that the University of Worcester have been awarded a grant to undertake further research into extra care housing and dementia, and
- A new report by Public Health Scotland on healthy housing.
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Jeremy
New Housing LIN blog out this week
How McCarthy Stone is becoming dementia-ready
In this Housing LIN guest blog, CEO John Tonkiss outlines several actions that McCarthy Stone are taking to become dementia-ready, including:
- Incorporating the wider dementia work being done by Alexander Fleming, McCarthy Stone’s Health and Wellbeing Advisor, into the McCarthy Stone Sustainability Strategy, and
- Establishing a Dementia Working Group covering eight areas of business.
Coronavirus Update
With the easing of Covid-19 restriction rules that came into force last month and further relaxations from Monday this week, check out current and relevant sector guidance on the pandemic on our Coronavirus Info Hub along with a range of Housing LIN practice briefings for the sector and links to other useful information and websites.
And if you missed last month’s launch of the St Monica Trust/Housing LIN RE-COV Study, that ‘state of the nation’ report on COVID-19 and its impact on the retirement village and extra care housing sector, you can now download the presenters’ powerpoints and watch a recording of the HAPPI Hour session.
What else caught our interest?
- CIH blog: Coronavirus – a view from the housing frontline
- The Guardian article: UK health inequalities made worse by Covid crisis, study suggests
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
What caught our interest?
- Inside Housing article: The Twilight Zone of accessible housing provision
- MSV video: Flourish - HAPPI and later living rightsizing
- Show House article: Are housebuilders failing people with disabilities?
- Sanctuary news item: CQC success for Birkenhead disability respite service
- Centre for Ageing Better story: Why Tony is #AgeingWithPride
- Relationships Project blog: Designing connection into care by ARCO
- The Guardian article: Share-housing in your 60s: ‘Six of us wanted to do retirement in an extraordinary way’
- Bourneville Village Trust new scheme: Former college campus transformed into £60m care and health village
- erosh survey: Domestic Abuse in Sheltered and Retirement Housing - please complete our survey
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
This is your chance to inform future policy on digital technology in adult social care
Ipsos MORI and the Institute of Public Care would like senior leads in organisations supplying technology and related services to the adult social care sector to complete an online survey and/or take part in a telephone interview.
This would cover the types of technology, or services supported by technology, they provide to the adult social care sector. The survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.
And, if you would like to take part in the telephone interview, please get in touch at NHSXreview or call on 0800 056 8327.
What else caught our interest?
- TCPA news: housing and health – connections, tensions, and deregulatory consequences
- Dezeen article: Poor-quality housing is the "number one thing holding the UK back"
- Home Renaissance Foundation blog: Smart Homes: who said life was easy? – BeHome Blog
- Juniper Digital Awards: Eseye Scoops Juniper Research Award for Pioneering Alcuris Connected Care Solution
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
Derby City Council publishes evaluation report that reveals Local Area Co-ordination (LAC) works
Derby City Council have now published findings that have changed the focus from asking if Local Area Coordination (LAC) works to how it works best and where it can have the most impact to help reform and support local health and social care systems. The aim of the evaluation report was to reveal how LAC is a practical assets-based approach that can help to reform and support local health and social care systems, benefiting citizens, services and finances in Derby.
The approach taken forms a baseline against which LAC in Derby can be assessed in the near future whilst identifying areas for further research and investigation for ongoing learning and continuous improvement.
We are also pleased to have added this report to our CollaborAGE directory.
What else caught our interest?
- LGA web resources: Reducing preventable admissions to hospital and long-term care – A High Impact Change Model
- SCIE paper: Commissioning for a better future: A starter for ten
- SCIE website: Critical review tool for social care leaders
- LGA website: Equalities, diversity and inclusion hub
- HSJ comment piece: ICSs and the drive to improve health and reduce inequalities
- The Guardian article: Adult social care services face ‘deluge’ of requests for support
- NCF news: Vic Rayner, CEO of NCF receives an OBE in The Queen’s 2021 Birthday Honours
- Community Care article: Care demand rising with more expected, as service capacity lags below pre-Covid levels, says ADASS
Housing and Dementia
The NIHR School for Social Care Research announces 12 new awards
We are pleased to report that the School of Social Care Research, supported by the National Institute for Health Research, have funded 12 new research projects to the tune of £1.7m across a range of adult and social care practice themes.
The announcement came soon after the APPG Inquiry report (see below) which recommended the need for more research. One of the successful bids was made by the University of Worcester and we are proud to be involved in their new project, Supporting people living with dementia in extra care housing.
APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry Report
Did you miss this recent APPG Inquiry report?
Watch and listen again to the launch of the new report on housing and dementia here and be inspired by Wendy Mitchell as she shares her personal story about living with dementia.
Missed our HAPPI Hour sessions on housing and dementia? The recording and presentations are now available.
Wales
For Welsh government guidance on COVID-19, visit: https://gov.wales/coronavirus
What else caught our interest?
- United Welsh blog: Improving Diversity and Inclusion: Discomfort, Empathy and Deeds
Scotland
Healthy Housing for Scotland
Public Health Scotland has published briefing paper setting out evidence on how housing can influence health and wellbeing, has been published by Public Health Scotland in an aim to assist the Scottish Government with policy developments associated with its Housing to 2040 strategy. Underpinned by 28 key messages, this paper is intended to complement the Housing to 2040 strategy by outlining in greater detail the pathways and mechanisms for how housing can influence health and wellbeing.
It also aims to support public health colleagues who work locally, regionally and nationally with housing colleagues in the process of designing, implementing and evaluating policy decisions.
And for Scottish government guidance on COVID-19, go to https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/
What else caught our interest?
- Scottish Housing News article: Permission granted for Blackwood's £12.5m project to revolutionise healthy ageing
Events
Sign up to our remaining June HAPPI Hour sessions
Have we got an exciting programme of HAPPI Hour live-streams to quench you thirst!
This Thursday, 17 June, we shone a light on research and development into cohousing and extra care housing for older LGBT communities with Surrey University, Tonic Housing, One Housing, Anchor Hanover and the LGBT Foundation. The recording and slides are now available.
And we round off the month with a session next Thursday, 24 June, with Motionspot and ExtraCare Charitable Trust looking at the latest in contemporary and accessible adaptations, including an showcase apartment, and the Centre for Ageing Better’s The Good Home Inquiry.
Also, following our HAPPI Hour session with ADASS and the Home Office on the EU Settlement Scheme, they have announced a new series of upcoming webinars. We look forward to organising another housing one with them over the summer.
And you may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN
In next week’s HLINks
Next week we publish a new guest by Look Ahead’s Nathan Rhodes on how psychologically informed environments have influenced their work and our HAPPI Hour focuses on looking at the latest in contemporary and accessible adaptations and The Good Home Inquiry
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.