AGED CARE
As a newly appointed Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) lead, you might be crushing it… or the role might be crushing you.
AGED CARE
Across the globe, we’re nearing two hundred million infections of COVID-19. Infections and deaths from the Delta variant are ballooning. Several countries have reimposed their 2020 stay-at-home orders.
EDUCATION
How often is your hygiene equipment serviced?
AGED CARE
Imagine if this was your facility: The auditors announce they’re coming in two weeks. They expect your self-assessment when they arrive.
AGED CARE
We have found that the aged care system fails to meet the needs of our older, often very vulnerable, citizens. It does not deliver uniformly safe and quality care for older people. It is unkind and uncaring towards them. In too many instances, it simply neglects them.
AGED CARE | EDUCATION | ACCOMODATION
Commercial hand care systems are harsh on infection and dirt, but they can also be destructive to hand health. On the other hand, a moisturising hand wash that is too gentle may not offer adequate protection power. How do you get the balance right for your organisation?
AGED CARE | EDUCATION | ACCOMODATION
Surface disinfectant can be purchased in 20-litre concentrate drums, to be manually diluted on site.
EDUCATION
Let’s be honest, Schools haven’t been supported during the pandemic. The education sector wasn’t seen as “in danger”, only “dangerous”.
AGED CARE
One hygiene consumables cost that’s commonly overlooked in aged care facilities is toilet paper.
AGED CARE | EDUCATION | ACCOMODATION
The trusty mop and bucket has been used to clean hard floors for many decades. And despite the hygiene industry embracing new technology in other areas, the mop is still estimated to be the go-to method for ~70% of surface cleaning! There are two critical reasons old school cleaning equipment supplies like these live on.
AGED CARE
In aged care, laundry doesn’t get attention unless it goes wrong. And when it does, you’re accountable for everything from poor soil removal to unbalanced pH washes.
AGED CARE | EDUCATION | ACCOMODATION
Before 2020, surface disinfection in aged care facilities was left to the cleaners. It was an unmeasurable and labour-intensive task, so its potential for infection control was ignored.
