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The My Home Life movement

My Home Life began as a project initiated in 2006 by the National Care Forum and Help the Aged. It has become a high profile social movement to promote quality of life in care homes.

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The Big Care Home Conversation

“What makes life good in care homes now, what could make them better - and how might we get there?”

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The Eight Themes

The Eight Themes

Our eight themes identify what best practice in care homes for older people looks like in the 21st century. They are grouped into three different areas:

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My Home Life promotes quality of life for those living, dying, visiting and working in care homes.
  • Big Care Home Conversation

    Big Care Home Conversation

    What makes life good in care homes now, what could make them better – and how might we get there? The Big Care Home Conversation offers you an opportunity to share your views.

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    Downloads

    We’re developing resources to keep you up-to-date on ideas, tips and good practice. Watch our films, and download resources & materials to create your own tree in your care home.

  • Why have a conversation about care homes?

    There is no doubt we, as a society, have an uneasy relationship with care homes. We might feel a host of emotions; anger, mistrust, fear, disappointment. This might arise out of what we read in the press or it may be because of what they represent to us as individuals. Given that the work of care homes increasingly revolves around older people who are dying or experiencing high levels of mental and physical frailty, is it that we struggle to emotionally engage with such concepts and therefore push care homes from our minds? Might it be that we are more comfortable with an image of ourselves being active and engaged in later life and that care homes bring us back to the uncomfortable reality that for some of us growing old may not be so idyllic? Is it that care homes present to us some degree of societal failure that we are not looking after our own?

    Lets not forget that care homes are often making significant positive differences to the lives of our elders but greatly need our help. While care homes remain ‘islands of the old’, mistrusted and isolated from our communities,  it is difficult to transform them into valued, cherished places that sit at the heart of our communities and have relevance to us all.

    Tom Owen, My Home Life Director.