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Organisational Sustainability
You know, sometimes you just shouldn’t eat that extra piece of cake: it can ruin a good thing! Similarly, you sometimes need to reject an offer or opportunity that comes across your desk. It might not be in the best interests of your organisation. We sometimes miss...
What's Your Message? | Communication in Aged Care
I have a confession to make: you see, I have been fascinated with this thing we label as ‘communication’ or more specifically ‘messaging’ for a long time, probably because I have personally struggled in getting it right, and I know how critical good communication...
6 Expert Cleaning Tips to Reduce the Risk of Infection
If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the standards associated with cleaning an aged care facility, or providing home based care cleaning services in the community, especially since the spread of COVID-19, you are not alone. As the Approved Provider of an Aged Care Home...
Toolbox Talks – Let's not become complacent
When was the last time you presented or participated in a toolbox talk? Hopefully your answer was "sometime in the last month" at the very least, as staying up to date with safety information is an important aspect of providing quality care. We’ve borrowed the term...
Understanding Wellness and Reablement in Aged Care
There are a number of benefits to having adult daughters studying university subjects from home; not only do I get cups of tea and coffee brought to me in my home office, I also learn lots of new and interesting things. This week it was the difference between...
Sanitiser Sanity
There's concern that the sudden overuse of hand sanitisers during the current pandemic in our attempt to protect ourselves from COVID-19 may be creating an environment where antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms can emerge. Over the past few weeks we’ve received a...
If it's not on – it's not on!
For those of us who were teenagers or young adults in the 1980’s and 90’s there is one slogan that probably still rings in our memories that was used to promote Safe Sex, especially in the very scary onslaught and impact of HIV-AIDS as it spread across the world. "If...
“Mask not what your country can do for you; mask what you can do for your country”
My niece recently became engaged and to celebrate, she and her fiancé are holding a masked ball. Well, not actually a ball, more like a bush dance… but there will be masks. Maybe not the kind of masks you’re thinking of… or, then again, perhaps due to the current...
Access to Aged Care – Are we doing enough?
One of the concepts woven through the aged care quality framework is that aged care is accessible for all people who need it. But what does that mean? What makes up accessible aged care and what are the barriers that organisations need to consider to ensure that aged...
Individual COVID-19 Action Plans for Seniors
As things start to ease up with COVID-19 movement restrictions, we’re seeing borders opening again and more people moving around, returning to some semblance of normality — in most States of Australia anyway. But the outbreak and subsequent return to lockdown for...
