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Cutting carbon-heavy heating systems in care homes
Accounting for around 70 per cent of a care home’s energy costs, improving heating and water efficiency is the biggest lever for cutting bills. Craig Dolan looks at what care home managers need to know when considering new or upgraded systems.
What does a Tuesday afternoon feel like?
Most care home lighting is designed for the people who work there, says Michael Bamling, who makes the case for configuring it for the people who live in them, and outlines practical principles that can change their daily experience.
COVER STORY: Turning reporting into real impact
Reporting is a necessary and important task for care groups, but the value it provides can vary significantly if there is not a clear structure or process involved. Radar Healthcare’s new and updated event toolkits were developed to address this gap.
Why sustainability matters in care homes
Care homes create a significant amount of waste, which needs to be managed as a legal requirement. With ‘simpler recycling’ rules extending to micro providers due next year, Mia Fisher argues rubbish needs to be higher up facility managers’ priorities
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Our story began in a shed in Devon where Frequency Precision's founder, Doug Dwyer, was a busy inventor. His mother was living in a nursing home so he made a pager system so that she could use to call for assistance easily. This got him thinking: how could he make a better, more discreet way to monitor people at risk whilst still retaining their...
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