HLINKs - Housing LIN's weekly update at your fingertips
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 1 October 2021.
This is where you can 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.
For example, this week, we published a new Housing LIN Case Study exploring Melfield Gardens in Lewisham, a housing scheme winner of a 2021 Housing Design Awards last night! We also shared a new guest blog by Jon Foster, Director of Service Development, Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing on what it means for social care to be in recovery.
We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:
- Public Call for Evidence by Policy Connect’s Smart Homes and Independent Living Commission.
- One week to go! Apply for Clarion Housing Group’s William Sutton Prize
- And a blog I wrote on ‘Hard-wiring digitally connected care and independent living’ for the Housing and Ageing Alliance.
We would also like to highlight that we see #HomeshareWeek2021 as an integral part of our #CollaborAGE community chest. You can find a range of reports, guest blogs and case studies on #homesharing, here.
And lastly, join us at next week’s #HAPPIHour with the Archbishops of Canterbury’s and York’s new Commission on Reimagining Care, showcasing a selection of community-based approached to care within a housing context.
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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, remain safe.
Jeremy
NEW HOUSING LIN PRODUCT
Melfield Garden, Lewisham – an intergenerational housing scheme for older people and students, designed to a Passivhaus standard
To coincide with today’s International Day of Older Persons, #UNIDOP2021, and in support of the #STOPageism campaign to reinstate older people at the heart of our lives and communities, we are delighted to share a new Housing LIN case study, which explores Melfield Gardens in Lewisham - winners last night of the intergenerational development, new homes for local people category in the Housing Design Awards 2021.
The development combines intergenerational living with HAPPI principles whilst targeting a highly sustainable Passivhaus standard.
New Housing LIN blog by Jon Foster: What I’ve learnt about the importance of recovery after a crisis
In this guest blog Jon Foster, Director of Service Development, Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing explores what it means for social care to be in recovery, outlining a couple of key principles that has really helped in guiding him through his recovery work.
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
Check out current and relevant sector guidance on the pandemic on our Coronavirus Info Hub.
You can also find out more about the recent launch of the St Monica Trust/Housing LIN RE-COV Study, on COVID-19 and its impact on the retirement village and extra care housing sector.
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
One week to go!
We’re so please that Jeremy Porteus, Chief Executive of the Housing, has been invited by Clarion Housing Group to sit on this year’s William Sutton Prize for social Innovation judging panel! Applicants will need to show how their idea has the potential to deliver positive change for individuals, disadvantaged groups or communities.
There is up to £20,000 on offer for the winners to help turn their bright ideas into reality. With one week to go, there’s still time to apply.
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
Hard-wiring digitally connected care and independent living
In this blog Jeremy Porteus, vice-chair of the Housing & Ageing Alliance and Chief Executive of the Housing Learning and Improvement Network, emphasises the need for connectivity to make the most use of telecare and telehealth services and highlights the opportunity created when digital inequality, digital inclusion and digital integration is addressed.
Public Call for Evidence: how can smart home technologies enhance independent living?
Policy Connect's Smart Homes and Independent Living Commission invites all stakeholders to respond to its public call for evidence.
This evidence will help the Commission make recommendations on how smart home technologies can be used by disabled and older people to enhance independent living.
What else caught our interest?
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.
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?
- HDRC webinar What does “build back better” mean for people living with dementia in extra care and retirement housing? recording and presentations available.
Wales
Scotland
What else caught our interest?
- Social care institute for excellence blog: ‘It does what it says on the tin…’
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 - 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
And you may be interested in these other events supported by the Housing LIN:
- Avoiding costly planning appeals: what needs to change in national and local planning policies - ShakespeareMartineau webinar 05/10/2021, 9:30am till 10:30am
- 3NDWG Webinar: Cultural Sensitivity in Dementia Care 05/10/2021, 11:00am till 12:00pm
- 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 - Early Bird concessions available until 1st October, with further discount offered to Housing LIN members.
- NDTI webinar: Considering and meeting the sensory needs of autistic people in housing 21/10/2021, 2:00pm
- Retirement housing: Why is the support of housing with care so limited in Scotland and what will it take to boost it? - ShakespeareMartineau webinar 03/11/2021, 9:30am till 10:15am
- Knowledge exchange workshop - Creating inclusive communities: Social inclusion in housing with care and support for older people - 04/11/2021, 10:00am till 12:15pm
In next week’s HLINks
Next week we published a blog by Laura Francis, Neighbourhood Services Manager at Housing 21, looking at free internet resources to inspire residents. This coincides with the Housing 21 Conference where Housing LIN’s CEO, Jeremy Porteus will be speaking.
We also launch the second cohort of Future Leaders Network thanks to generous sponsorship from Thirteen Group. And finally, we are joining forces with the Archbishops of Canterbury’s and York’s new Commission on Reimagining Care for a #HAPPIHour session showcasing a selection of community-based approached to care within a housing context.
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.