Aged care cleaning services and maintenance of retirement homes

Aged care and retirement homes are structures where the elderly live together for long periods of time. The maintenance and aged care cleaning of this type of establishment are, therefore, very important. In particular, they make it possible to prevent bacteriological and epidemic risks. Older people are sometimes susceptible to infections and infectious diseases, which represent a major problem in nursing homes. Therefore, it is necessary to provide effective and recurring aged care cleaning of the rooms in retirement homes to stem the proliferation of bacteria.

SCS Group Integrated Services is a cleaning company specializing in the maintenance of medical buildings, following a precise intervention protocol in order to limit the risks associated with the specific cleanliness of this type of establishment.

Hygiene and maintenance of establishments housing the elderly

In order to provide quality care in retirement homes, certain basic rules of hygiene and maintenance are essential. Here are some examples of processes offering cleaning guarantees in aged care.

• Carry out recurring and methodical cleaning of the occupants’ rooms
• Prevent the spread of bacteria
• Use cleaning materials and products effectively
• Know and master bio-cleaning techniques

SCS Group Integrated Services cleans and maintains retirement homes or establishments housing the elderly in Melbourne and throughout the state of Victoria. The maintenance interventions of your establishment can be carried out at times of your convenience in order to avoid the discomfort of the staff and the occupants.

Find cleaners for the maintenance of a retirement home

Finding the confidence of a competent and reliable cleaning company is not always easy. SCS Group Integrated Services offers for your retirement home establishments maintenance of rooms and common areas a professional cleaning service. Of course, we also take care of facade cleaning, window washing, and floor cleaning for this type of establishment.

The competence of our maintenance agents is based on several skills:

• Dusting, washing, and disinfection techniques
• Regular cleaning of pathogenic microbes
• Bio-cleaning and the choice of cleaning products
• Identification of different risk areas and classification of premises
• cleaning and disinfection methods
• Implementing an intervention protocol and cleaning control

Measures to combat infections in nursing homes

The risk of infection and disease transmission is high in nursing homes, certain cleaning actions are therefore recommended as a priority:

• Aged care cleaning and disinfection of nursing homes and especially contaminated areas/surfaces
• Regular change of surface disinfectants

The principles of Aged care cleaning of rooms in retirement homes

SCS Group Integrated Services cleaning agents use maintenance methods adapted to each space in your retirement home. Indeed, aged care has different zones. These do not present the same degree of infectious risk. Thus, in the administration offices and the reception hallway, classic cleaning techniques are needed because the risk of infection is relatively low there.

In the occupants’ rooms and the treatment rooms, the risk of infection and the spread of bacteria is much higher. Here, it will be necessary to use a cleaning process and maintenance products:

• Cleaning from the cleanest to the most contaminated or dirtiest systematically
• Washing from top to bottom
• A dusting technique always precedes aged care cleaning:
  • For wet wiping top surfaces
  • Wet sweeping the floors