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#Jeremytalks
Welcome to #Jeremytalks and our must-read weekly bulletin, HLINks, week-ending Friday, 22 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 guest blog jointly written by Policy Connect’s Clive Gilbert and the Open University’s Dr Jenny Matson who draw attention to the government’s recent National Disability Strategy and considers how assistive technology can help enable disabled and older people achieve genuine choice and control. Clive is also a panelist on the Housing LIN's Technology for an Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) Inquiry. You can now register to attend the online TAPPI Inquiry report launch on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 4pm.
And if you missed this week's HAPPI Hour 'Intergenerational living is the future – where are the opportunities?’, you can watch the recording and access the slides, here. We're also delighted to have received such excellent feedback:
- A good mix of experienced practitioners sharing some exciting, new and innovative ideas and thinking.
- Very interesting and promising concept for future housing development.
- Informative and shows that thinking in this area is moving in a positive direction, across many areas of our sector
We also highlight a range of items that we think will be of interest to you, including:
- New HHA blog – Homes fit for purpose for an ageing population, by Sarah Davies, CIH
- Knight Frank’s Senior Living Annual Review
- Future Care Capital report
- Final call for the NHSX Digitising Social Care Fund
- DemECH – Commissioner survey
And lastly, looking to next week, we are really excited about the launch of the TAPPI Inquiry report. Ahead of the launch, we have produced this animation to promote the event. Join TAPPI Inquiry chair, Professor Roy Sandbach OBE, Susan Kay from Dunhill Medical Trust, members of the TAPPI Expert Panel and those who gave evidence to learn about the 10 guiding principles and recommendations in Phase One of this influential project. Register now!
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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
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Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation report launch and webinar, Tues 26 October
Inspired by the HAPPI design principles, the Technology for our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (TAPPI) launches its Inquiry findings and recommendations on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 4pm.
Chaired by Professor Roy Sandbach OBE and funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, the virtual launch will set out the importance of a person-centred approach to reduce digital inequalities and deliver more digitally integrated technology-enabled care and housing.
Drawing on evidence from the Royal College of Occupational Therapists, the TAPPI Panel saw the need to better utilise DFGs to provide technology solutions that enable people to live well at home.
It saw the opportunity for a means-tested Technology Facilities Grant that could give people better access to tech that supports their independence at home.
Ahead of the launch, the Housing LIN has made this short animation. Take a look and please share amongst your partners and practitioner networks. We look forward to seeing you at the launch next week.
An Independent Living Technology Challenge is needed to fulfil the ambitions of the National Disability Strategy
In this new Housing LIN guest blog, Clive Gilbert, Policy Manager at Policy Connect and a TAPPI Panel member, and Dr Hannah Marston at the Open University, draw attention to the government’s recent National Disability Strategy and considers how assistive technology can help enable disabled and older people achieve genuine choice and control.
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.
What else caught our interest?
Housing, Community, Disability, and Ageing
New HHA blog – Homes fit for purpose for an ageing population, by Sarah Davies, CIH
In the latest Housing and Ageing Alliance members’ blog, Sarah Davis, senior policy officer at the Chartered Institute of Housing makes the case for developing person centred approaches to making our homes fit for purpose for an ageing population in a time of climate change.
This blog is the latest in a series being produced by members of the Housing and Ageing Alliance, a collective of local and national organisations working together to bring about improvements to the housing and living conditions of older people.
Seniors Housing Annual Review - 2021
Knight Frank's market leading research examines the fundamentals of the private Senior Living market from the strong demographic landscape to sales and rental performance of the largest private operators.
The data in this year’s Review suggests that, while the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the sector, recovery has been swift.
What else caught our interest?
- Freeing up accommodation – a downsizer market
- Foundations: Putting moving home support into action – working together to change lives
- Clarion Housing Group becomes first housing association to pilot intergenerational living model
- Centre for Ageing Better – Age-friendly care study: Community radio for and by people in later life
Design, Construction, Planning and Technology
Learning Disability Tech Landscape Review
This report explores those start-ups deploying technological solutions in England and the benefits they bring to users, carers, and health and social care, particularly post-COVID.
The key findings demonstrate the size of the market, locations of companies developing solutions and quantifies the available information about investment in solutions.
What else caught our interest?
- Unified Tech Fund Application – Digitising social care
- Living well for longer: Shaping the design and provision of housing for later life
- Using technology is later life: Independent Age
- Initiatives to Help Us All Age Better – thirdage.design
- TSA – Building a proactive care system that is practical and scalable: a story of partnerships working
- Thinking of renovating? Here’s how to future-proof your bathroom.
- BeHome Blog – Would you live in a prefabricated house?
Health and Social Care, Mental Health and Learning Disability
The value of investing in social care
The Nuffield Trust, the Health Foundation and The King's Fund have published a new joint briefing: The value of investing in social care - what are the benefits of further funding for reform to adult social care in England?
The briefing outlines seven benefits of social care in England where there are opportunities offered by additional funding for further reform: access, market stability, workforce, support for unpaid carers, quality, innovation and the role of social care in supporting other public services like the NHS.
What else caught our interest?
- The Stark Reality of the Care Workforce – The National Care Forum
- Innovations in community-centred support goes global
- Additional funding to help adult social care this winter
- What is integrated care meant to achieve and how will we know if it’s working
- Casual impact of social care, publish health and healthcare expenditure on mortality in England: cross-sectional evidence for 2013/2014
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.
DemECH - Commissioner survey
We are pleased to partner with the Association for Dementia Studies on a new research project funded by the NIHR SSCR to find out how best to support people living with dementia in Extra Care Housing
Extra Care Housing is a model of housing that supports independent living in self-contained accommodation, with 24-hour onsite flexible care provision, and access to a range of communal facilities.
Each survey is available to complete online using the links below. Surveys can be completed using a computer, laptop, tablet (e.g. iPad) or smartphone. Surveys are anonymous and should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.
The deadline for completing the surveys is Friday, 12 November 2021.
What else caught our interest?
Wales
For Welsh government guidance on COVID-19, visit: https://gov.wales/coronavirus
Scotland
For Scottish government guidance on COVID-19, go to https://www.gov.scot/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance/
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 - 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:
- 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
- Healthy Ageing 2021 – Creating societal change through inspiration, innovation and impact – Centre for Ageing Better & UK Research and Innovation – 15/11/2021 – 16/11/2021
In next week’s HLINks
Next week we're looking forward to launching the TAPPI Inquiry report, an important sector review of technology for our ageing population, on Tuesday, 26 October 2021. You can also look out on Thursday for details about our virtual Summit 2021 - A Festival of Ideas which will be held during the week commencing 6th, December. We have an exciting prgoramme of HAPPIHour-style events throughout the week. Take your pick!
The Housing LIN would like to thank Willmott Dixon for their support in producing this newsletter.