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2nd June 2009

Merthyr Tydfil care home in pioneering project
My Home Life Wales “will benefit residents, relatives and staff”

A MERTHYR TYDFIL care home is taking part in a unique all-Wales programme to improve the lives of people in care homes. Greenhill Manor Care Home is involved in the ‘My Home Life Wales’ programme.

Wendy Sayers from Greenhill Manor says: "My Home Life Wales aims to make sure that living, visiting or working in a care home is an enjoyable experience. Greenhill Manor Care Home prides itself on creating an environment where residents truly feel at home and their relatives know that their family members are receiving the best care available. We’re going to be sharing our ideas with the My Home Life Wales programme about the things that we do at Greenhill Manor Care Home to make life special for our residents, their relatives and the staff who work here."
 
Merged charity Age Concern Cymru and Help the Aged in Wales is running My Home Life Wales. Programme manager John Moore explains:"We’re very glad to be working with Greenhill Manor Care Home on this exciting project. My Home Life Wales will work with care home residents, their relatives and staff to identify and share ideas that make life better for people who live in, visit or work in care homes across Wales. These can be very simple and straightforward ideas or complex innovations but the aim will be the same – improving people’s day-to-day lives in care homes. My Home Life Wales will share the wealth of knowledge and information provided by Greenhill Manor Care Home to benefit as many people as possible in care homes across Wales.”      
 
The Welsh Assembly Government’s Health Challenge Wales is funding My Home Life Wales. Deputy Minister for Social Services Gwenda Thomas says of My Home Life Wales: "Wales has always led the field with programmes that benefit older people, such as the Welsh Assembly Government’s Strategy for Older People in Wales, and My Home Life Wales is another innovative project that will really make a difference to so many people across the country. This is an exciting project that at its heart is a clear vision of how we can improve the lives of care home residents and staff. The Welsh Assembly Government fully supports the programme’s ethos of involving care home residents in meaningful activities and decisions that affect them as well as the programme’s emphasis on recognising the importance and value of the work done by care home staff." 

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