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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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My Home Life toolkit resources

The My Home Life toolkit was designed to support conversations for quality improvement. It was developed from research and piloted with care home managers. It helps people to explore their thoughts and...
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Community engagement resources

1. Posters   Put a poster in your care home window, or in the window of your local shop, and let the community know how best to support you:     Poster:...
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The four underlying frameworks of My Home Life

Posters for the 4 underlying frameworks of My Home Life: Developing best practice together Focusing on relationships Being appreciative Having caring conversations More information about each of the 4 frameworks can be...
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Literature Review: Quality of life in care homes

In 2007, Help the Aged commissioned the National Care Home Research and Development Forum to deliver this project as part of its policy work relating to improving quality of care for older...
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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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Research on My Home Life

Research on My Home Life  
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