Tom Owen
My Home Life Programme, City St George's University of London
Tom Owen
Tom Owen has been working in social care for 38 years as a campaigner, researcher and practitioner. He began his career working in care homes, and as a community worker before taking a research position at Oxford University and then, becoming Policy Research Manager at Help the Aged (Now Age UK) leading on issues around dying, social isolation, depression and the lived experience of older people.
Tom Owen is co-founder and trustee of My Home Life, an international programme (and social movement) promoting quality of life in care homes and other care settings. Tom also acts as Director of ‘My Home Life England’, based at City St George’s, University of London
Tom has presented papers at a range of UK and international conferences and has published a number of papers in academic and trade journals.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | United Kingdom; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Northern Ireland); United Kingdom (Scotland); United Kingdom (Wales); |
|---|---|
| Topics | Access to care; Attitudes and Expectations about Long-Term Care; Care Homes; Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care integration/ coordination; Care outcomes; Complex interventions; Ethics and care; Gender and care; Home/domiciliary care; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC Workforce; Provider sector; Quality of care; Residential LTC services; |
| Methods | Creative research methods; Ethnography; Focus groups; Longitudinal qualitative studies; Observational studies; Pilot study; Qualitative studies; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Care home markets and regulation; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Social Care Reform in England; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| Website | http://www.myhomelife.org.uk |
| ORC.ID | 0009-0004-2980-1140 |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i6xDH7kAAAAJ&hl=en |
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