HLINks - Housing LIN’s weekly update at your fingertips!
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 3 September 2021, the first after our August news break.
If you missed some of the thought-leadership pieces we published over the summer, you can find them here:
- A Home for Life: Understanding liminal Space as a place to just be, by Helen Brown
- What dementia readiness actually looks like, by Yasmeen Hussein
- If this building is still standing in a year’s time, I will be blown away, by Megan Reynolds
- Laying the Foundations of Smart Care Technology, by Christian Geisselmann
And to coincide with the NHF’s #StartsatHome day today and the focus on supported housing, we are also delighted to announce our newest #InspirationalAchievement featuring Sanctuary Supported Living’s Shaftesbury Court, a residential care home that has been named a finalist in the ‘Healthy Homes’ category of the 2021 Inside Housing Development Awards.
In other news, you can also take a tour of relevant resources and events on later life housing and independent living with regard to homes and communities, health and social care, design and technology, dementia, planning matters and more. We highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:
- The 2021 to 2022 Better Care Fund policy framework.
- The Good Home Dialogue by the Centre for Ageing Better.
- Collaboration between Fine & Able and Sophie Morgan showing that accessible design can also be beautiful.
- Tackling Loneliness research briefing by House of Commons Library.
- Towards a dementia inclusive society: WHO toolkit for dementia-friendly initiatives.
- The Archbishops of Canterbury’s and York’s new Care Commission (also a Housing LIN HAPPI Hour on Tuesday, 5 October).
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Lastly, if you would like to talk to us about any matters highlighted in this week’s issue, share learning about your work and/or discuss how you can engage our highly regarded consultancy services to support you, email ‘Jeremy talks’ at: info@housinglin.org.uk
Stay connected and, above all, with further lockdown arrangements delayed for the time being, remain safe.
Jeremy
NEW HOUSING LIN PRODUCTS
New Inspirational Achievement feature: Shaftesbury Court
Our newest #InspirationalAchievement features Sanctuary Supported Living’s Shaftesbury Court, a residential care home that has been named a finalist in the ‘Healthy Homes’ category of the 2021 Inside Housing Development Awards.
HLIN Blogs
Here’s an overview of our thought-leadership pieces shared throughout the month of August:
- A Home for Life: Understanding liminal Space as a place to just be, by Helen Brown
- What dementia readiness actually looks like, by Yasmeen Hussein
- If this building is still standing in a year’s time, I will be blown away, by Megan Reynolds
- Laying the Foundations of Smart Care Technology, by Christian Geisselmann
And, in case you missed it, we have made the exciting decision to change our Twitter handle from @HousingLINews to @HLINComms to better reflect the scope of information we share.
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 the recent 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.
HOUSING, COMMUNITY, DISABILITY, AND AGEING
#StartsAtHome Day
To coincide with #StartsAtHome Day, celebrating the positive impact of Supported Housing, we would like to draw attention to better housing choices for people with learning disabilities or autism and a range of tools and examples of transformative practice.
You may also be interested in a report by Mencap and Housing LIN that seeked to better understand the scale, nature and cost of supported housing, and draws on examples of good practice and to provide robust evidence to inform the debate around funding for supported housing into the future.
Other stories that have caught our interest:
- Supported housing has never been more important - a blog from Ian Gilders
- What does supported housing mean to its residents? - read residents' stories
2021 to 2022 Better Care Fund policy framework
This policy framework sets out the national conditions, metrics and funding arrangements for the Better Care Fund (BCF) in 2021 and 2022, including confirmation of the £573m allocated for Disabled Facilities Grants.
The Good Home Dialogue by Centre for Ageing better
The latest research from the Good Home Inquiry, co-commissioned by the Centre for Ageing Better and UK Research and Innovation’s Sciencewise programme from BritainThinks, comes ahead of the final report from the Good Home Inquiry, due to be released next month.
The Future for retirement villages: What the pandemic has taught us
We are proud to worked with CMM magazine to produce this article discussing the long-term impact of the pandemic on retirement villages and extra care housing, based on the finding of our Re-COV research.
What else caught our interest?
- Research in Practice launch new publication and complimentary podcast on housing options and alternative modes of living for later life.
- Government announce £8.6 billion for affordable homes to give boost onto housing ladder.
- Social Eating Guide by Ambition for Ageing
- MDPI Open Access Journal article: Interventions against Social Isolation of Older Adults: A Systematic Review of Existing Literature and Interventions
- An estate agent says older buyers are being excluded from the housing market
- L&G: Downsizers make up under a quarter of households aged 55 and over
- Latest Seniors Housing Development Report announces that senior housing units in UK to grow by 9% over the next five years.
- The Mercers’ Company publish ‘Understanding befriending: A study of befriending schemes for older people’.
- Clarion Housing Group’s William Sutton Prize – 1 month to go before applications close! £20,000 on offer for the winners of this year’s William Sutton Prize. Application close midday on 6 October.
- University of Liverpool publish findings from the ‘What is a ‘good enough’ life’ research project
- Habinteg Housing Association responds to the National Disability Strategy
- Blog post by Lauren Walker, Collaboration is the key to the future of home adaptations
- EU Settlement Scheme – still a few weeks left to get direct help
- Connected Places Catapult webinar on National challenges in Healthy Ageing locally understood Tickets, Wed 15 Sep 2021 at 10:00 | Eventbrite
DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY
Accessible Made Beautiful
In Collaboration with UK-based accessible design company, Fine & Able, Sophie calls for an “inclusion revolution” in the design of bathrooms for disabled people. She reveals this stunning accessible bathroom refurbishment before and after, showing that accessible design can also be beautiful.
What else caught our interest?
- Gary Steen has left TalkTalk after 10 years as Group Managing Director for Technology and been appointed by global market leading health and care technology company Tunstall Healthcare as Chief Technical Officer to lead the way in the next generation of health tech solutions.
- Sensors and Artificial Intelligence to monitor Dorset social care patients
- A new Net Zero Carbon Toolkit has been launched by Forest of Dean, Cotswold and West Oxfordshire District Councils.
- Research finding by Science Direct: Effects of a consumer driven home modification intervention on community participation for people with mobility disabilities.
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE, MENTAL HEALTH AND LEARNING DISABILITY
Tackling Loneliness
This briefing paper covers research into the prevalence, causes and impact of loneliness and possible interventions to address the issue, and describes cross-government measures announced to tackle loneliness in England, and briefly outlines approaches in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Right time, right place: Urgent community-based care for older people
The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) have published a document outlining the offers and services currently delivered across the country in pursuit of a broadly similar aim to provide appropriate, timely, high-quality care when an older person experiences a crisis or urgent need.
What else caught our interest?
- Social Eating Guide by Ambition for Ageing
- The Archbishop of Canterbury and York have launched the Archbishop’s Commission on Reimagining Care
- New study shows minor adaptations highly cost effective for preventing falls in the home
HOUSING AND DEMENTIA
Towards a dementia inclusive society: WHO toolkit for dementia-friendly initiatives
This toolkit by WHO provides practical guidance and tools that can support efforts, including planning and implementation activities, to create dementia-inclusive societies. It helps raise awareness of, and empowers people living with, dementia to remain in, and be a significant part of, their community.
Stabilise, energise, realise: a long term plan for social care
This report from Future Health and Alzheimer's Society seeks to set out what needs to happen and how to deliver a social care system to be proud of as a nation, in order to work with the Government to address this challenge and develop the solutions.
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.
And did you miss our HAPPI Hour sessions on housing and dementia last month? The recording and presentations are now available.
What else caught our interest?
- Zillah Moore, Director at Tunstall Healthcare discusses how technology can support people living with dementia
- The Time for Dementia Project, supported by the Alzheimer’s Society
- National Residential Landlords Association and Alzheimer’s Society publish 6 tips for making a property dementia friendly.
- Podcast with Third Age Design and Alexander Fleming: Dementia Considerations and Links to Design
- Music for Dementia Campaign
- Making housing and dementia a national priority: third update from the National Housing and Dementia Forum
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EVENTS
Sign up to our Autumn HAPPI Hour sessions
Have we got an exciting programme of HAPPI Hour live-streams to quench you thirst starting this month. Please note the change of the day of our sessions from Thursday to Tuesday!
- HAPPI Hour - Investing in Ideal Homes - 21/09/2021 4:00pm till 5:25pm
- HAPPI Hour - A practical look at intergenerational living - 28/09/2021 4:00pm till 5:15pm
- HAPPI Hour - Reimagining Care: Caring Times - 05/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - Passivhaus for Active Ageing - 12/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - Intergenerational living is the future – where are the opportunities? - 19/10/2021 2:30pm till 4:45pm
- HAPPI Hour - Tap into the TAPPI Inquiry report launch - 26/10/2021 4:00pm till 5:30pm
- HAPPI Hour - From Moving On to Moving In - 02/11/2021 4:00pm till 5:15pm
You may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN
- EU Settlement Scheme Webinars - 26/08/2021 till 15/09/2021
- Creating Age-Friendly Homes in Greater Manchester -14/09/2021 4:00pm till 5:00pm
- National challenges in Healthy Ageing locally understood - 15/09/2021 10:00am till 11:00am
- Foundations - DFG Champions Roadshow 2021 -16/09/2021 till 28/09/2021
- HDRC Webinar - What does “build back better” mean for people living with dementia in extra care and retirement housing? - 21/09/2021 12:30pm till 2:30pm
- Housing 21 Conference - Is housing responding to the diverse needs of older people? -06/10/2021 10:00am till 4:00pm
- Healthy City Design 2021 - 11/10/2021 till 14/10/2021
In next week’s HLINks
In next week's HLINKs, we are delighted to announce a new sponsor of the Housing LIN's sight loss, home and the build environment webpage, with an accompanying guest blog post from an expert in design and planning for older people and people with disabilities.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.