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Eyeing a more resilient care home environment
Welcome to the first edition of The Care Home Environmentof 2021. The year starts as the last one ended – battling against a terrible disease that disproportionately affects the most vulnerable members of society.
While the holiday period was welcome for many of us, there is no rest from the immediate matter of dealing with the pandemic. That being said, there are plenty of lessons being learned from Covid-19 – as articles in these pages demonstrate – and many care providers are digesting them and exploring how to take ideas forward to enhance their care home environments.
In his interview on page 14, Hallmark Care Homes chairman Avnish Goyal explains the challenge of ensuring developments are more ‘pandemic resilient’ through modified designs and new technology that may not be called upon for long periods.
As a result of Covid-19, there will no doubt be many innovative technologies, techniques and trends emerging in the care home environment of the future
As Goyal wisely points out, however, a global pandemic was predicted for some time and it appears extremely unlikely that Covid-19 will be the last disease to plague humanity.
Providers therefore will need to ensure future care home designs mean they are better prepared to cope with the next epidemic without having to go through the rigmarole and often lengthy process of ordering new equipment.
The pandemic has also given Hallmark Care Homes plenty of food for thought about dementia care and whether residents are receiving sufficiently meaningful provision.
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Goyal uses the analogy of placing oneself in a dementia care resident’s shoes with nothing to do during lockdown and gives a tantalising glimpse into the development of a new, enhanced model of care. As a result of Covid-19, there will no doubt be many innovative technologies, techniques and trends emerging in the care home environment of the future and we will track those developments with interest.
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