By Leon Harris CPP Published in INsite, June/July 2001 A large amount of capital and time is injected into a new development, unfortunately often without input by specialist security consultants as part of the design team. Whenever security is developed in relation to planned aged care facilities, there is the inevitable tension between over-securing and under-securing [...]
By Leon Harris CPP Published in INsite, April/May 2001 As a specialist consultancy for the health and aged care industry, our Security Reviews often deal with the protection of Dementia residents. Although there are some ‘purpose built’ facilities for Dementia sufferers with varying built in safeguards, most older facilities were not designed or built with Dementia [...]
We consistently hear concerns from Community Health Workers that they often travel through or work in areas that have poor or no mobile telephone reception. The quality of service in a particular area will often vary between the different service providers. Of particular concern voiced by workers is how they obtain assistance should they be [...]
With the increasing use of contract security guards and patrols by the aged care sector, both client and security provider must be clear of mutual obligations, expectations and limitations of these services. With so many legislative and other requirements placed on aged care operators it is understandable that some important Australian Standards sometimes fail to [...]
