6 August 2007
An innovative new website designed to help care home professionals will mean older care home residents will face a brighter future.
Launched by Help the Aged, with funding from BUPA Giving, www.myhomelife.org.uk is the first website of its kind. It aims to enable care home professionals – from assistants to inspectors – to share best practice on key topics such as creating a sense of community within care homes and staff training. In addition care homes will be profiled.
In a report released last year entitled 'My Home Life: Quality of Life in Care Homes', Help the Aged revealed how care home staff are all too often undervalued and overworked in what has become a 'forgotten sector.' The Charity called on health and social care professionals to join a 'movement' in what Help the Aged hopes will result in better recognition of the value that care homes can bring to the lives of older people.
Since the publication of the report, over 500 care homes across the UK have joined the Help the Aged 'My Home Life' network.
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