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Greeting residents in their first language

We are proud to offer a home that strengthens the cultural identity of residents, relatives and staff. We found that simply greeting someone or understanding an expression of discomfort in Welsh can...
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Personalising our home – pictures and corkboards

We have been looking at different ways that we can improve our care home and our relationships with our residents – we are always asking ourselves: ‘how can we put more effort...
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Sharing decision-making and listening to your community in renovation projects

“I’m the Chief Operating Officer of The Fed– a social care charity which runs many community projects for people of all ages and large residential and nursing home for older people. We...
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Using a decision tree to start conversations and share decisions

“As I’ve been going through the My Home Life Leadership Support programme, I’ve been looking at how we can be doing more to share decision making in our care home. We’ve already...
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Commemorating the war with a theme of forgiveness with residents and the local community

  A manager shares plans for a really special event commemorating residents’ memories of the war, and the war experiences of them and and their families – with a theme of forgiveness....
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Walk in your manager’s shoes for a day…

  Gillian is the manager of a small residential care home with 20 residents in Edinburgh. My story to share is about something we call ‘Funday Friday’. One day a month, one...
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Managers share ideas for Care Home Open Day 2015!

If you haven’t had a chance to think about Care Home Open Day (Friday 19th June) yet, some managers from across the country have shared their ideas (little and large) for great...
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Setting up a managers’ forum

Susan Yates is the manager at Dial House in Bedford, a family-run nursing home for 50 residents. Since I finished the My Home Life programme in 2012, the group of managers I...
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Welcome to the new My Home Life blog

Hello and welcome to our new blog and our first ever blog post! On this blog we want to host stories from people who are working in and around care settings every...
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The Big Care Home Conversation – information and resources

The Big Care Home Conversation (BCHC) was devised by My Home Life England to discover: What works well in care homes? And what could be even better? From May 2012, My Home...
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