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A Satisfied Saturday: the power of saying YES!

Our very own North West London Care Home Friends and Neighbours (Care Home FaNs) member, Najjah, a ‘Life Style Coordinator’ from Neem Tree Care Centre, has been working hard to help build...
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Cycling without Age Bristol helps older people in care homes feel the wind in their hair

Cycling Without Age Bristol is a new, independent non-profit organisation (registered with Charity Commission, number 1182936). Our aim is to harness the pedal power of volunteer cycle-pilots to take local care homes...
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Quality of Life: reaching out for support

Bulletin 23 is out now! Download your FREE copy from our Resources page In this issue, we look at ‘Quality of Life: reaching out for support’. We explore the benefits that engaging...
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Celebrating improvements in care homes across North West London

The My Home Life England team at City, University of London delivered a leadership support programme to care home managers, which led to improvements to leadership and staff morale, and to care...
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Stories of building community connections from Kepplegate Care Services

Kepplegate Care Home has been working hard to connect themselves to their local communities. Their story helps us all to think about what’s possible when asking our local communities for support in...
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Going the extra yard; because the extra yards together make the extra mile

Kinections is a project ran by My Home Life Scotland. Kinections aims to develop and grow sustainable dementia-friendly communities in East Ayrshire with and for older people with dementia living in care homes and those...
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Good care means good communication

We all know that having more meaningful conversations is what many older people long for, especially if they are living with dementia in a care home. We asked Sarah Reed, a specialist...
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Making it happen! By Sarah Crockett – Community Coordinator from Bath

“When I think about activity provision, I think of everyday meaningful interactions with residents, families, staff and volunteers. An activity can simply be greeting someone when you walk through the door in...
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Danuta’s a winner at National Dementia Care Awards!

My Home Life England facilitator and BACP member Danuta Lipinska had cause for celebration after bespoke training she helped to develop was recognised at the National Dementia Care Awards 2018. Danuta, who...
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Best Practice in Care Environments: Interview with Julienne Meyer

Professor of Nursing at City, University of London and Executive Director of My Home Life England, Julienne Meyer is passionate about best practice in care environments. In this article Julienne speaks about...
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