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Supporting LGBTQ+ individuals living in care homes

This Pride Month, four care team members tell us how they are supporting LGBTQ+ older people to ‘Thrive Inclusively’ – from values-based caring and recruitment practices, to facilitating opportunities for people to...
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Supporting people living with dementia in care homes to thrive

We’re marking Dementia Action Week by highlighting how care teams are supporting people to live well with dementia in care homes. When living with dementia, it can be difficult for an individual...
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Our 6-part Thriving in Residential Care Series & Webinar with Care England

We’ve collaborated with Care England on a series of 6 articles and webinar spotlighting the powerful stories we uncovered in our ‘Thriving in Residential Care’ research. Our study was the UK’s largest qualitative...
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My Home Life England Annual Impact Report 2024

Introducing our 2024 Impact Report! 2024 was a busy year of collaboration, innovation, and facilitating positive change in the care sector. We supported care leaders across England to develop their leadership skills,...
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Families matter: 4 things that help families to have confidence in care teams, by Cath Holmes

Cath Holmes is Director of Care Quality at Anchor and a member of the My Home Life England Board.  We spoke to Cath about how to best support the family and friends...
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Our new research reveals 6 key ways that older people can thrive in a care home

We are delighted to release our new research: ‘Thriving in Residential Care’! My Home Life England (part of City St George’s, University of London) has conducted one of the largest ever qualitative...
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My Home Life England Annual Impact Report 2022-2023

We are proud to share our annual impact report for August 2022 – July 2023! Some of our highlights include: Over 160 care leaders completed My Home Life England programmes. Working across...
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Increased resilience, retention and quality – key outcomes of My Home Life England programmes

We are really pleased to share new data from over 200 care leaders, which reveals that participation in My Home Life England programmes has significant impact for care leaders – including an...
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‘Rebuilding Together’ – Insights into how care homes coped during the pandemic

On the third anniversary of the first COVID-19 lockdown (23rd March 2020), My Home Life England shares new insights from care homes about their experiences of the pandemic.
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New toolkit supporting positive working relationships – released by My Home Life England and NAPA

About the toolkit The toolkit is free to access. It focuses on positive practice, building on what already works well and finding new ways to work towards shared goals. It has been...
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