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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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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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