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14 Emerging stronger: recruitment during Covid Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare explore the experience of the care provider’s recruitment team during Covid and the lessons it is taking forward
18 Covid-19 and innovating dementia care Vida Healthcare discusses how dementia care can be innovated through the mental and physical health of care home residents and staff, and how Covid-19 has impacted delivery of dementia care
22 A rough guide to care home safety technology InstaCare Systems takes a critical look at care home safety technology, including digital care planning, wireless fall prevention technology and staff attack systems
27 What can social care learn from the past 18 months? As social care slowly emerges from a period of turmoil, Grey Matter Learning managing director Ian Green looks to the future and asks how the sector can adapt operations in a post-Covid-19 world
31 The impact on care residents during Covid Claire Bailey of AutumnCare explores how Covid-19 has affected people living in care and the care software provider’s initiatives to maintain a sense of community and prevent social isolation
35 Preventing waterborne infections in care homes Outbreaks of waterborne infection are an ever-present danger, never more so than in vulnerable settings. In this article, Bristan senior product manager Chris Tranter talks about the importance of waterborne infection control within care homes
39 Covid lessons learned for care staff technology Dr. Charles Armitage, chief executive and co-founder of care staff technology provider Florence, explains how the pandemic shows why social care must continue to embrace modern methods of workforce management
43 How cleaning accreditation aligns with care goals Patty Olinger, executive director of the US-based Global Biorisk Advisory Council, sets out industry best practice to ensure care homes are thorough yet efficient in its approach to cleaning accreditation
47 The three ‘Rs’ of laundry in care homes With the laundry room at the front line of a care home’s infection control and with strict infection protocols set to continue, Amanda Symmons from commercial laundry specialists Washco explains three key areas for managing care home laundry to achieve safe results
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