As businesses strive to get back to business safely, Tom Brazington, regional director Thames Valley & Western for leading green space management company idverde, explores how care homes can utilize landscaping to support social distancing.
Social distancing is now part and parcel of everyday life for us all, care homes included. Care home staff, residents, suppliers and visitors are all expected to take certain measures to protect themselves from Covid-19.
In other sectors, such as retail, these measures include using floor markings to make sure shoppers keep a safe distance from one other and to follow a one-way system to minimise interactions with others.
But as effective as they may be within the world of retail, these measures are not as easy to implement within care home settings from a practical perspective. Not without potentially impacting residents’ quality of life.
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