Housing LIN

A big thank you to all those involved in yesterday's #HAPPIHour webinar on 'Do-it-yourself' #CoHousing. It was a fantastic session to end the year on, providing excellent insights into what's happening at a national and local level. 📽️ You can now watch the recording, download the speaker presentation slides and access all the useful links that were shared in the chat box at https://lnkd.in/erBZZwd5

In this blog, Tamsyn Pegler, Volunteer Manager at Coastline Housing, shares Christopher's journey of overcoming loneliness and improving his mental and physical wellbeing through the support of Miners Court Day Centre. After the loss of his wife, he struggled with isolation and low mood but gradually regained confidence and joy by participating in the centre's activities and forming connections with others. His involvement in volunteering further boosted his sense of purpose and achievement, and his experience motivated him to seek long-term care and social support. The story highlights the transformative impact of community, care and engagement on wellbeing. Read here: https://lnkd.in/eSbb7v6g

Yesterday, 25 members of the Housing LIN’s #FutureLeaders Network came together to celebrate their participation in our unique programme at an event hosted at this year’s #HAPPI award-winning Appleby Blue in Bermondsey 🏘️ A big thank you to Laura Wood, founder and director of Invisible Creations®, and one of Inside Housing's top 40 leaders under 40, for sharing her #Leadership journey, and to United St Saviour's Charity for hosting! 🔗Read the full story and find out how you can get involved: https://lnkd.in/ect94NFZ Inspired Villages

Another lovely meet up for the Housing LIN 's Future Leaders Programme. Warmly welcomed by the community at the (beautifully designed!) Appleby Blue almshouse in Bermondsey. Design was a bit of a running theme as we heard from Laura Wood on her journey to founding Invisible Creations®, a company which specialises in design-led assistive products. Looking forward to the next event in 2025 ☺️

"This is an incredibly exciting time to be involved in the design of our nation’s future housing solutions, especially those that respond to our expanding ageing population, its needs and aspirations. In considering what to build and where, there is a compelling social, health and economic case for housing provision in later life to be a key part of the 'big picture' solution to the nation’s housing crisis." Building on the Older People’s Housing Taskforce report and in anticipation of the upcoming government #Housing Strategy, which is expected to focus on measures that facilitate the goal of constructing 1.5 million new homes over the next five years, director Nigel Saunders highlights the importance of choice in housing as he shares his perspectives with Housing LIN. Read 'A new housing strategy for all?' in full here >> https://lnkd.in/dufkwZxQ

"One key takeaway was the importance of designing not just for coexistence but for connection. It’s not enough for generations to live side by side, the spaces we create must actively encourage interaction...." Continue reading insights from our recent #HAPPIHour webinar on Living Intergenerationally below⬇️

One of our #DemECH Extra Care Housing films is specifically for people and families affected by dementia. Have you seen it yet? https://lnkd.in/eBw6UxEQ

I was honoured to chair the Dementia & Housing Working Group #Dementia Friendly #Technology webinar this week with a diverse range of expert speakers and the Housing LIN In my latest blog, I share reflections on the insightful discussion and the powerful messages it conveyed and lots of resources and further reading. Read it here https://lnkd.in/eNcHXwVD We need the government to make dementia a priority, to invest specifically in early and accurate diagnosis, dementia care training and technology that can support us. There are barriers in embracing #tech but at the end of the day, it’s got to be right for the individual, personalised to their changing needs and the support has to be available. Peter Middleton Bryony Evans John Livermore Ben Williams Alex Barker tide (together in dementia everyday) #HAPPIHour

Older People's Housing Report - Overarching recommendation Recommendation 10/10 - Create collective leadership to drive change. To achieve a step change, we need to inspire and empower ambitious action, from the top of government and outwards to communities and families. We need to fully integrate housing health and care at all levels of the system. Here, our collective ambition should be to see the delivery of a long-term National Housing Strategy for an Ageing Population, to enable the country to be better prepared for the multifaceted impact of an ageing society and to support the transformational thinking of government departments in housing, health and social care and other key stakeholders in local communities. Such a strategy is urgently needed if we are to enable people to live healthy and independent lives for longer, support them to make active contributions to society, reduce reliance on the welfare state and make better use of housing stock for all sections of the community. There needs to be ownership of this task at the highest levels of government based on a long-term commitment to delivery. A new Office for an Ageing Population should drive delivery forward. What do you think? #OPHTreport

For a fifth year running, we are excited to celebrate HAPPI Awareness Week (#HAPPIweek), an opportunity to raise awareness around the Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation (#HAPPI) principles and the virtues of designing care-ready accommodation and age-friendly housing services. This week we shared: 🏘️Older People’s Housing Preferences report in partnership with Ipsos UK ✍A new housing strategy for all? - insights from Housing LIN Members 🫂Building Social Connections Toolkit with Madeleine Hebert at Happy Cities 📽️ #HAPPIHour webinar recording on #Dementia Friendly #Technology, with reflections on the insightful discussion by session Chair, Alison Rogan And of course, we draw attention to the HAPPI Reports, led by the All Party Parliamentary Group (#APPG) on Housing and Care for Older People, primarily focussed on age-friendly design and architectural quality. HAPPI reading! 🔗https://lnkd.in/em7cg9Rf