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Can you re-roster quickly in an emergency? When it comes to in-home care, life is often unpredictable. Client Service Co-ordinators can spend a lot of time changing rotas and matching carers to clients. Home care software can help an in-home care provider manage unforeseen changes more easily and enable them to work faster.
Ultimately home care software that includes rostering can help streamline processes and save time, important in an emergency.
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“CareLineLive has saved me loads of time as far as scheduling goes” Deputy Care Manager, CI Home Care Rostering software can benefit all stakeholders within an aged care business. Software such as CareLineLive has useful features such as a drag and drop functionality that allows for quick roster changes. You can also select multiple bookings for a single carer using a click and drag option; allowing you to make multiple actions on visits for a carer simultaneously. And with all updates communicated in real-time via their carer app, carers are instantly notified of changes in their rotas. To ensure all client visits/bookings are scheduled correctly, unallocated bookings stick to the top of the roster. Plus, Client Service Co-ordinators can assign a red-amber-green priority to clients; useful when there are staff shortages. Systems, like CareLineLive, also offer travel time estimates between consecutive visits to help maximise productivity and ensure the correct allocation of travel time.
Dementia goes hand in hand with anaemia
An elderly person with good cognitive function but with anaemia, has twice the risk as a non-anaemic person of developing dementia within three years. Since haemoglobin is easy to measure and anaemia can be treated, anaemia is thus a modifiable risk factor for dementia.
Drag and drop can improve the speed of rostering
The good news is, point-of-care testing provides fast, easy and accurate anaemia results. For more details see radiometer.com.au Atti, A.R. et al. Anaemia increases the risk of dementia in cognitively intact elderly. Neurobiol of Aging, 2006, 27; 278-284
This was found in a longitudinal study on people aged 75 and above. It was also seen that the lower the haemoglobin concentration the higher the risk for developing dementia. The researchers suggest that a chronic hypo-oxygenation of the brain due to a decreased oxygen carrying capacity of the blood could be the biological mechanism behind their findings. It was only in persons with an initially good cognitive function that anaemia increased the risk of dementia. This suggests that anaemia plays a role in the initial stages of the disease. It also supports the idea that anaemia is a cause of dementia and not an effect of it. The relationship between anaemia and dementia seems to be independent of other chronic conditions potentially related to anaemia and dementia since this was adjusted for in the study.
Do you work in a rural or remote aged care facility as a nurse or allied health professional? Is it difficult to go on leave due to a shortage of team members? Take a break on us! You may be eligible for Australian Government-funded support to help alleviate the pressure of finding a temporary replacement when you go on leave. Our unique program is subsidised by the Australian Government, meaning that there are no hidden fees. Your aged care facility only pays for the cost of hiring a locum for the duration of your leave period, that is, their wage, superannuation and any applicable taxes. Our program officers will recruit, screen and place highly experienced locums that can hit the ground running from the moment they arrive.
We help alleviate the pressure even further by arranging and paying for the locum’s travel and accommodation. All you need to worry about is ensuring your community receives ongoing healthcare during your absence. Are you interested in becoming a locum? For every rural and remote placement, you not only receive complimentary travel and accommodation, but you also receive an incentive allowance of $150 per working day and a $100 per day meals allowance.
For more information, please visit www.rurallap.com.au or free call 1800 Rural LAP (1800 18725 527).
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