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and maintaining hygiene, a warm soak for many care home residents can lead to improvements in day-to-day activities outside of the bathroom through enhanced sleep, improved mobility, and a reduction in pain. Ultimately, as a result, this can lead to lower staffing costs as residents require less intervention in the wider care home environment, due to an increase in independence, confidence, and wellness.
Duty of care
All healthcare providers understand they have a duty of care to ensure optimal support and dignity for clients. The current financial constraints and staff shortages can be addressed and bolstered through the help of appropriate equipment that delivers this utmost care to residents and carers while maximising long-term budgets. Selecting quality and proven powered baths with cutting-edge design features, such as the range from Gainsborough for example, not only provides efficient safety and support to a reduced care team, but they also provide long-term cost savings through reduced water and energy use. This in turn reduces gas and electric overheads as lower hot water usage
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means less heating is required. Combined with faster filling and more efficient bather transfers, bathing cycle times are reduced so staff can attend to more residents in less time. Without compromising care, this reduces pressure on care teams and results in enhanced service provision around care sector establishments.
Conclusion
By taking the necessary investment steps to support carers and workplace demands, care home managers can more effectively safeguard morale and bolster staff retention, while preventing any secondary impact on service users that may arise when care staff experience burn out. In seeking ways to safely reduce
workloads on a more long-term scale, through ergonomic, adapted bathroom equipment, for instance, the care home industry can boost operational efficiency and ensure single-handed care practices can be delivered more easily, safely, and effectively. Investing in specialist equipment is, in fact, a worthwhile and much needed investment in carer and service-user wellbeing.
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Peter Eckhardt
Peter Eckhardt is chief executive of Gainsborough Healthcare Group. A UK specialist bath manufacturer, Gainsborough provides holistic products and services to the care industry through it leading brand Gainsborough Specialist Bathrooms. Peter takes pride in delivering a company ethos that is client-centric and based on the core values of ethics, diligence and integrity.
Promoting independence …
[enhance personal hygiene improve physical health sustain mental well-being]
… in elderly & dementia care
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