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Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 2nd July 2021.
This week we published a guest blog by Dr Joy Malala in which she highlights the key issues raised in her new book on the home in the digital age for the Home Renaissance Foundation.
In other news, you can also take a tour of latest 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 update from ADASS on the EU Settlement Scheme
- Information from the House of Commons debate yesterday on housing with care
- A report by the University of California at Davis on Planning Healthy Ageing Communities, and
- we signpost to next week’s HAPPI Hour on housing for people with a learning disability or autism.
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Jeremy
New Housing LIN blog out this week
The Home in the Digital Age: Home Renaissance Foundation latest book
In this new blog for the Housing LIN, Dr Joy Malala introduces the impact and influence of digital technologies on the home and provides context for the recently published Home Renaissance Foundation book, The Home in the Digital Age.
Coronavirus Update
With the easing of Covid-19 restriction rules that came into force last month and further relaxations expected from 19 July, 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?
- Government funding: Adult social care given over £250 million extra to continue coronavirus (COVID-19) protections
- Public Health England research findings: New national surveillance of possible COVID-19 reinfection
- Scottish Older People’s Assembly report: Access to Healthcare Survey Report
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
Parliamentary debate on Housing with Care
Yesterday MPs held the first ever formal debate on retirement?communities following lobbying by the Associated Retirement Community Operators (Arco) trade association. The debate on the effect of Covid-19 on retirement communities, referencing the St Monica Trust/Housing LIN RE-COV Study.
Ahead of the debate, Arco said: “it will focus on the way in which housing with care offers a new, innovative model for delivering care, and keeping older people active and healthy for longer”.
What else caught our interest?
- Places for People blog: Rightsizing, not downsizing, is the answer for the UK retirement housing sector
- National Lottery Funding: Local Connections Fund - Round 1
- Power to Change report: Private developers and property owners must act now to save UK’s failing high streets
- Policy Press book: Ageing in a Global Context
- International Journal of Ageing and Later Life article: Retirement transitions in the 21st century: A scoping review of the changing nature of retirement in Europe
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) healthy ageing challenge fund five innovative projects
We are pleased to see five agencies listed to share £23 million in funding from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) healthy ageing challenge.
The projects are headed by various organisations and are designed to ensure that we all live healthier, more useful and better-connected lives as we age, while helping to narrow the gap between the experiences of the richest and poorest members of the community. The five successful projects range from enabling people to live healthier working lives to using technology to map and plug gaps in care provision.
UCDavies publish Planning Healthy Ageing Communities
We are delighted to have helped inform UCDavies’ new publication on land-use planning and community design that can help address the growing health and housing needs of the ageing population, including those who are intellectually and developmentally disabled.
The report includes an evidence review, guidelines, toolkits and interview insights into the health effects of land-use planning and design and will help inform and inspire developers, planners, builders, policy makers, and other key stakeholders in the development of innovative healthy aging communities.
What else caught our interest?
- New London Architecture article: Inclusive design is fundamental
- APPG report: ‘Left behind’ Neighbourhoods: Community data dive
- BBC regional news: Digital divide: Older people in the West left 'lonely'
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
ADASS share advice on EU Settlement Scheme deadline
Through its extensive national network of connections, ADASS have kindly provided awareness-raising and signposting activities and materials to help advice those who may be helping someone they care for, or are the family of members of, an EU/EEA citizen resident in the UK, to make an application to the EU Settlement Scheme which closed on 30 June. However, the Home Office have indicated that they will accept late applications if there are ‘reasonable grounds’ for failing to meet the deadline.
What else caught our interest?
- Marie Curie news: UK Commission on Bereavement
Housing and Dementia
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?
- Digital Inclusion Alliance Wales website: Digital Inclusion Alliance Wales
- Inside Housing article: Report highlights COVID-19 pressures on housing professionals in Wales
Scotland
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: Age Scotland: Scotland must be better prepared to meet the needs of an ageing population
- University of Stirling news item: New national housing and dementia forum
EVENTS
Sign up to our July HAPPI Hour sessions
Have we got an exciting programme of HAPPI Hour live-streams to quench you thirst next month. Please note the change of the day of our sessions from Thursday to Tuesday!
Next week, on 6 July, hot on the heels of Learning Disability Week, we will be joined by NHS England’s Clare Skidmore, Learning Disability England’s Sam Clark and Golden Lane Housing Association’s John Verge in our next HAPPI Hour - Building the right home and support
Then on 20 July we host a HAPPI Hour on Compassionate Neighbourhoods: communities that care with St Joseph’s Hospice’s Patrick Dollard, Ann Brolan from Anchor Hanover and IBI architect’s Maarit Heneinon-Smith.
And lastly, on 27 July we welcome Levitt Bernstein’s Irene Craik, Phoenix Community Housing’s Steve Connor and UKRI’s Julie Glenn to our HAPPI Hour - Fostering innovation in designing for Ageing
And you may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN
- ADASS EU Settlement Scheme webinars, 8 June to 21 July 2021
- University of Lincoln Mend the Gap event, 6 and 7 July 2021 Mend the gap: Housing for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
In next week’s HLINks
Next week we publish a new guest by Carla Fulgoni from The Planning Bureau in which she sets out her thoughts on planning and responding to the demands of working from home. We'll also report on the new The Workhome Project website.
It is also Rural Housing Week as well as Co-production Week. We will highlight the APPG’s work housing for older people in rural areas and our online CollaborAGE Directory.
And if you haven’t already booked your place, do register for next week’s HAPPI Hour on housing for people with a learning disability or autism. Please note we have moved the day to Tuesday.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.