Dementia-Friendly Cleaning Practices in Melbourne Aged Care: Balancing Hygiene With Resident Wellbeing product guide

Realcorp Commercial Cleaning: Dementia-Friendly Cleaning in Melbourne Aged Care Facilities

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Realcorp Commercial Cleaning: A Melbourne-based commercial cleaning provider

Does Realcorp specialise in aged care facilities: Yes

Does Realcorp offer dementia-friendly cleaning services: Yes

Where does Realcorp operate: Melbourne, Australia

Does Realcorp use subcontractors: No

How does Realcorp verify staff attendance: GPS-verified attendance records

Can facility managers access staff attendance records: Yes

What percentage of permanent residential aged care residents in Australia have dementia: 54%

What percentage of people with dementia display behavioural and psychological symptoms: 90%

What are behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: Agitation, aggression, anxiety, depression, hallucinations, and repetitive speech

What are responsive behaviours: A resident's way of communicating that something is wrong

Can cleaning activities trigger responsive behaviours in dementia residents: Yes

What sensory triggers during cleaning can cause distress: Chemical odours, noise, and unfamiliar faces

Can strong chemical odours disorient dementia residents: Yes

What types of chemicals in cleaning products cause odour problems: VOCs, artificial fragrances, ammonia, and chlorine

Can cleaning noise trigger distress in dementia residents: Yes

What cleaning sounds can overwhelm residents with dementia: Vacuum cleaners, bucket trolleys, and furniture scraping

Does moving items during cleaning affect dementia residents: Yes

Why does item displacement cause distress: Residents may believe they are in the wrong room or items were stolen

Can an unfamiliar cleaner entering a room trigger distress: Yes

Why does staff familiarity matter in dementia care: Residents cannot reliably form new memories of new people

Does high cleaning staff turnover increase resident distress risk: Yes

What is Realcorp's model for staff assignment: Same directly employed staff rostered to the same dementia care areas

Do the Aged Care Quality Standards apply to contracted cleaning staff: Yes

When were the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards updated: February 2025

Do the strengthened Standards require person-centred care from cleaning staff: Yes

Do the Standards require trauma-aware practice from all workers including cleaners: Yes

Can a facility breach the Standards if contracted cleaners lack dementia training: Yes

Does Realcorp provide dementia-awareness training to its staff: Yes

Are Realcorp's training records auditable: Yes

Are Realcorp's training records available to facility management: Yes

What legislation governs person-centred care obligations in aged care: Aged Care Act 2024

What guidelines govern infection control in aged care: NHMRC Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare

Must hospital-grade disinfectants used in aged care be ARTG-listed: Yes

Are sodium hypochlorite (bleach-based) products recommended for occupied dementia rooms: No

When should sodium hypochlorite be used in dementia care areas: Outbreak or terminal cleaning only

Are low-odour QAC formulations suitable for routine dementia care cleaning: Yes

Are hydrogen peroxide-based disinfectants suitable for dementia care areas: Moderately, with good ventilation

Is microfibre with steam suitable as a substitute for TGA-listed disinfectants on clinical surfaces: No

Is microfibre with steam suitable for routine cleaning in dementia areas: Yes

Do fragrances in cleaning products add cleaning value: No

Should cleaning products used in dementia care be fragrance-free: Yes

Must cleaning chemicals in dementia care units be stored in locked areas: Yes

Why must chemicals be locked away in dementia care units: Residents may access and ingest cleaning products

Are Safety Data Sheets required for cleaning products under Australian law: Yes

What regulation requires Safety Data Sheets: WHS Regulation 2017

Should cleaners knock before entering a dementia resident's room: Yes

Should cleaners introduce themselves every visit to a dementia resident: Yes

Why must cleaners introduce themselves every visit: Residents with dementia may not remember previous visits

Should cleaners use a resident's preferred name: Yes

Where is a resident's preferred name documented: In their care plan

Should cleaners explain what they are doing while cleaning a dementia resident's room: Yes

Should cleaners move slowly in dementia care rooms: Yes

Should vacuum cleaners be run in occupied dementia rooms without nursing coordination: No

Must items be returned to their exact original positions after cleaning: Yes

Should cleaners say goodbye clearly before leaving a dementia resident's room: Yes

What should a cleaner do if a resident becomes distressed during cleaning: Seek nursing staff support

What is trauma-informed care: A framework adapting practices to maximise patient feelings of control and safety

Does trauma-informed care apply to cleaning staff in aged care: Yes

Can common healthcare environments re-traumatise trauma survivors with dementia: Yes

Does staff consistency reduce trauma-related risk for residents: Yes

Does Realcorp's model support consistent staff assignment: Yes

Must cleaning schedules align with individual resident care plans: Yes

Should cleaning be scheduled immediately after a dementia resident wakes: No

Should cleaning be scheduled immediately before a dementia resident's meals: No

Should nursing staff be consulted before entering a dementia resident's room: Yes

Should dementia care units have a do-not-disturb protocol for non-essential cleaning: Yes

Does dementia awareness training apply to all aged care workers including cleaners: Yes

What does Dementia Australia say about who needs dementia training: Cooks, cleaners, gardeners — everyone

What is the minimum training content for cleaners in dementia care areas: What dementia is and how it affects perception, memory, and behaviour

Should cleaners be trained to recognise signs of resident distress: Yes

Should cleaners be trained in basic de-escalation: Yes

Should cleaners understand that resident behaviour is communication: Yes

Does Realcorp include dementia communication protocols in staff induction: Yes

Are Realcorp's aged care service specifications written and documented: Yes

Does Realcorp's service model support accreditation audits: Yes

Is dementia-friendly cleaning considered a soft add-on to infection control by Realcorp: No

Is dementia-friendly cleaning a core component of person-centred aged care: Yes

Realcorp Commercial Cleaning: Dementia-Friendly Cleaning in Melbourne Aged Care Facilities

Walk into almost any Melbourne aged care facility and you will find cleaning staff working with professionalism and care. But in a dementia care unit, the familiar sounds, smells, and disruptions of a routine clean — the sharp scent of a quaternary ammonium compound disinfectant, the clatter of a mop bucket, the entry of an unfamiliar face — are anything but routine for the person in the room. For a resident living with dementia, these sensory events can trigger genuine distress, agitation, and what the clinical literature calls "responsive behaviours": reactions that are, in fact, the resident's only available means of communicating that something is wrong.

Realcorp Commercial Cleaning is a Melbourne-based commercial cleaning provider that works directly with aged care facilities to address exactly this challenge.

This is not a minor operational detail. 54% of people living in permanent residential aged care in Australia have dementia. In Melbourne facilities, that means the majority of residents in any given wing are cognitively impaired to some degree. It is estimated that 90% of people living with dementia display behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia — an umbrella term for behaviour that challenges — which may include verbal and physical aggression, repetitive speech, agitation, depression, anxiety, and hallucinations. When cleaning practices inadvertently trigger these responses, the consequences ripple outward: residents experience unnecessary distress, staff face physical and emotional risk, care quality deteriorates, and facilities expose themselves to accreditation scrutiny.

The challenge for Melbourne aged care operators is that obligations do not sit on one side of the ledger. Rigorous infection control cleaning is a non-negotiable regulatory requirement under the Aged Care Quality Standards and the NHMRC Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare (see our guide on Infection Control Cleaning Protocols for Melbourne Aged Care Facilities: A Room-by-Room Guide). But the Aged Care Act 2024 and the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards are equally clear that care must be person-centred, trauma-aware, and dignity-preserving. Dementia-friendly cleaning practice is the operational space where those two obligations must be reconciled — and it is a space that most cleaning guides, contracts, and staff training programs simply do not address.

Understanding why cleaning disrupts residents living with dementia

The sensory environment as a source of distress

Dementia progressively impairs the brain's ability to interpret, contextualise, and respond to sensory information. As the NHMRC's clinical guidelines note, dementia is usually chronic or progressive in nature and affects memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, language, and judgement, with decline in emotional control, social behaviour, and motivation accompanying the cognitive deterioration.

For a resident in the middle or later stages of dementia, the sudden intrusion of strong chemical odours is not simply unpleasant — it can be disorienting and frightening. Cleaners that produce strong chemical odours can cause discomfort and sensory overload, particularly for residents with dementia or heightened sensitivities. Many conventional cleaning products contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs), artificial fragrances, ammonia, chlorine, and other harsh chemicals. In a dementia care unit, where residents may spend extended periods in their rooms and have limited capacity to leave or request ventilation, these chemical exposures are not transient.

Noise compounds the problem. When people with dementia become frustrated, scared, or unable to communicate, they may become irritable or angry, and sometimes experience a catastrophic reaction — which may occur in response to loud noise, multiple questions, or feeling insecure. The operational sounds of cleaning — vacuum cleaners, bucket trolleys, the scrape of furniture being moved — are precisely the kind of sudden, unexplained environmental stimuli that can overwhelm a resident whose capacity to filter and interpret sensory input is compromised.

Equally significant is the disruption to physical space. Items should be moved carefully during cleaning and returned to their original positions, because for residents with dementia or cognitive impairment, maintaining familiar item placement supports orientation and reduces distress. A room that looks subtly different after cleaning — a chair moved, a personal item relocated — can cause a resident with dementia to believe they are in the wrong room, that their belongings have been stolen, or that their environment is no longer safe.

Unfamiliar staff as a trigger

One of the most underappreciated sources of distress during cleaning is the entry of an unfamiliar person into a resident's room. Traumatic events can have lifelong effects on functioning and emotion regulation, affecting behaviour and experiences in care settings. Common healthcare practices and environments can be re-traumatising for trauma survivors, and these features may trigger behaviour change — such as aggression and agitation — particularly after the onset of dementia.

High staff turnover among contract cleaning providers means residents in dementia care units frequently encounter people they do not recognise. For a person who cannot reliably form new memories or contextualise why a stranger is moving through their personal space, this is not a neutral event. Survivors of trauma are sensitive to aspects of dementia care that can evoke distressing memories and intensify trauma-related fear, grief, and humiliation. Receiving dementia care services introduces a power imbalance that requires the survivor to trust both a providing organisation and the person delivering the care.

This is a direct operational argument for staff consistency — which is why Realcorp's model assigns directly employed, digitally tracked personnel to the same dementia care areas on a recurring basis. No subcontractors means no strangers rotating through sensitive care environments without accountability.

The scale of the behavioural response problem

The clinical data on responsive behaviours in care settings is sobering. Patient distress that results in responsive behaviours is a significant problem for geriatric inpatient units, with incidents most common among people with dementia: 75% will exhibit responsive behaviour during an inpatient stay, most commonly aggression (57%) and other disturbance during personal care (44%). Responsive behaviours are highly disruptive and distressing for the person, their families, other inpatients, and hospital staff.

While this data originates from inpatient geriatric settings, it reflects the same population profile as residential aged care. The implications for Melbourne facilities are direct: if cleaning staff enter dementia care rooms without appropriate protocols, they are statistically likely to encounter responsive behaviour — and they are almost certainly not trained to manage it.

The regulatory and person-centred framework

What the Aged Care Quality Standards require

Person-centred care makes sure the care older people receive is tailored to their individual needs, goals, and preferences by placing them at the centre of all services and decisions made by providers. It respects each older person as a unique individual and is a key part of what it means to value an older person, making them central to the planning and delivery of their care.

The strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, updated in February 2025 by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, explicitly require providers to deliver funded aged care services that meet the needs of individuals with specific needs and diverse backgrounds, including individuals living with dementia, and to deliver funded aged care services that are culturally safe, trauma aware, and healing informed, in accordance with contemporary, evidence-based practice.

Critically, providers need to make sure all workers — including associated provider workers sub-contracted to deliver services on the provider's behalf — understand their roles and responsibilities in adapting a person-centred approach when engaging with older people. This obligation extends explicitly to contracted cleaning staff. A cleaning company that sends workers into a dementia care unit without dementia-awareness training puts the facility in potential breach of the Standards. Realcorp addresses this obligation directly: all staff deployed to dementia care units complete documented dementia-awareness training before commencing work in those environments. That training is auditable, tracked, and tied to individual staff records.

The NHMRC's Clinical Practice Guidelines and Principles of Care for People with Dementia, developed by the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre and funded by the NHMRC, establish that health and aged care professionals should provide person-centred care by identifying and responding to the individual needs and preferences of the person with dementia, their carer(s), and family. The guidelines further specify that health and aged care organisations should ensure that all staff working with people with dementia receive dementia-care training in attitude, knowledge, and skills.

For an accreditation audit perspective, see our guide on Aged Care Quality Standards and Cleaning: How Environmental Hygiene Affects Accreditation in Victoria.

Practical framework: dementia-friendly cleaning in Melbourne aged care

1. Scheduling cleaning around resident routines

The single most impactful operational change a Melbourne facility can make is to align cleaning schedules with individual resident care plans rather than institutional convenience.

Keeping a resident's routine and environment consistent and simple is critical, because even small changes can cause agitation — and if changes must be made, they should be made gradually.

Practical scheduling principles:

• Identify each resident's cognitive peak times. Most people with dementia have periods of greater clarity and calm — typically mid-morning for many, though this varies. Scheduling room cleaning during these windows reduces the likelihood of distress.
• Avoid cleaning immediately after waking or before meals. These are periods of heightened vulnerability when disorientation is most pronounced.
• Coordinate with nursing staff before entering rooms. A brief handover ensures cleaning staff know if a resident is having a difficult day, has had a medication change, or is currently agitated.
• Build predictability. Where possible, assign the same cleaner to the same dementia care rooms each day. Familiarity reduces the "stranger in my room" response. Realcorp's One Team model makes this operationally achievable — the same directly employed staff, rostered consistently, with GPS-verified attendance records that facility managers can access.
• Respect the "do not disturb" signal. Dementia care units should have a clear protocol for residents or nursing staff to flag when a room should not be entered for non-essential cleaning.

2. Selecting low-odour, TGA-compliant disinfectants

The infection control imperative in aged care is absolute. As detailed in our guide on Hospital-Grade Disinfectants in Aged Care and Healthcare: What Melbourne Facilities Need to Use and Why, only ARTG-listed hospital-grade disinfectants are mandated for use in residential aged care settings. The challenge for dementia-friendly practice is that many of the most commonly used hospital-grade disinfectants — particularly chlorine-based and strong quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) formulations — produce pronounced chemical odours.

The TGA-listed product range has evolved considerably. Shifting to non-toxic, respiratory-safe cleaning products can actively support healthier breathing environments for aged care residents, with products labelled as low VOC, fragrance-free, or hypoallergenic designed to minimise airborne pollutants.

Product selection guidance for dementia care areas:

Fragrances and dyes are common triggers for respiratory issues and add no cleaning value. Microfibre and steam methods clean effectively with little to no chemicals, reducing the need for synthetic cleaning agents.

Cleaning chemicals in aged care facilities must be stored securely in locked areas, particularly in dementia care units where residents may access and ingest cleaning products. All products must carry Safety Data Sheets accessible to staff as required under the WHS Regulation 2017.

Realcorp's approach to product selection means every product used in a dementia care environment is assessed against both its infection control efficacy and its sensory impact on residents. That assessment is documented and available for audit.

3. Communicating with residents during cleaning

How a cleaner enters, announces, and moves through a resident's room is as clinically significant as what products they use. Non-verbal interactions should be used to show respect for a person's individuality, and staff should not act as if a person with dementia cannot hear or is not present.

Step-by-step communication protocol for dementia care rooms:

1. Knock and wait — even if the door is open. This is a non-negotiable respect signal.
2. Introduce yourself by name and role every single time, regardless of how many times you have cleaned that room. A resident with dementia may not remember you from yesterday.
3. Use the resident's preferred name. Care plans should document this. Using a person's preferred name and referring to the unique details of their lives is a key element of person-centred interaction.
4. Explain what you are doing in simple, calm language. "I'm just going to wipe down your table, Margaret — I'll be very quick and quiet."
5. Move slowly and avoid sudden movements. Sudden visual stimuli can be as startling as sudden sounds.
6. Minimise equipment noise. Use quieter mop systems where possible; avoid running vacuum cleaners in occupied rooms without first gaining the resident's assent or coordinating with nursing staff to relocate the resident briefly.
7. Return all items to their exact original positions. In a dementia care setting, this is a clinical intervention, not a housekeeping preference.
8. Thank the resident and say goodbye clearly before leaving.

Good dementia care is about informed trial and error and having confidence to try different approaches if needed. Cleaning staff should be empowered to adapt their approach and to seek nursing support when a resident is clearly distressed.

These protocols are not aspirational guidelines at Realcorp — they are written into our aged care service specifications, included in staff induction, and reviewed as part of ongoing site management.

4. Trauma-informed approaches for cleaning staff

Trauma-informed care is a framework in which the potential impact of trauma is acknowledged, and practices and procedures are adapted to maximise feelings of control and safety for the patient. This framework, developed primarily in mental health and acute hospital settings, applies directly to the cleaning context in residential aged care.

Trauma is a common human experience that affects older people living in residential aged care settings. Many residents now in Melbourne aged care facilities have lived through wartime, forced migration, domestic violence, or institutional abuse. Traumatic events can have lifelong effects on functioning and emotion regulation, and common healthcare practices and environments can be re-traumatising for trauma survivors.

A trauma-informed cleaning approach does not require cleaning staff to become therapists. It requires them to understand three things:

Behaviour is communication. If a resident becomes agitated or resistive during cleaning, they are communicating distress — not being difficult. The symptoms or behaviours exhibited by residents are their way of telling caregivers that something is wrong or that they need help or attention. By anticipating or addressing the cause of the distress — pain, fear, anger, tiredness — the resident gets what they need and is less likely to exhibit challenging behaviours.

Power dynamics matter. A cleaner entering a resident's room holds environmental power. Trauma-informed practice means actively reducing that power differential through communication, pacing, and deference to the resident's signals.

Consistency reduces risk. Placing the resident and their individual needs at the centre of care, being guided by the resident, being flexible and adjusting care practices to the resident's needs, and having consistency in routine are all examples of person-centred approaches that are particularly important for residents who have experienced trauma.

This is another reason why staff continuity is not simply an operational preference — it is a clinical and compliance requirement. Facilities that rely on high-turnover subcontracted labour for dementia care cleaning carry measurable risk on this point.

5. Training requirements for cleaning staff in dementia care units

Person-centred dementia care education must include not just nursing staff but cooks, cleaners, gardeners — everyone. This is a direct statement from Dementia Australia's policy position on person-centred models of care, and it has direct operational implications for Melbourne facility managers. Cleaning staff — whether in-house or contracted — who work in dementia care units must receive specific dementia awareness training as part of their onboarding.

Realcorp incorporates this training requirement into its aged care service model, ensuring that all directly employed personnel deployed to dementia care environments are equipped with the knowledge and skills to engage safely and respectfully with residents. Training records are maintained, auditable, and available to facility management on request.

A basic understanding of what trauma is and how it may affect residents' perspectives, emotions, and behaviours is a necessary component of caring for residents who may have experienced trauma. Staff need ongoing training in trauma-informed care, because training tends to focus on the practical aspects of care and not the relational aspects, leaving staff underprepared for this work.

Minimum training components for cleaning staff in dementia care areas:

• What dementia is and how it affects perception, memory, and behaviour
• How to recognise signs of distress versus calm engagement
• Communication techniques: knocking, introducing, explaining, using preferred names
• Why routine, consistency, and item placement matter clinically
• What to do if a resident becomes distressed: de-escalation basics and when to call nursing staff
• Chemical safety in dementia care units: locked storage, odour minimisation
• Trauma awareness: understanding that behaviour is communication

For a broader overview of training obligations for cleaning staff in Victorian healthcare settings, see our guide on Healthcare Cleaning Staff Training Requirements in Victoria: Certifications, Competencies, and Compliance.

Operationalising dementia-friendly cleaning: a facility manager's checklist

The following checklist translates the above principles into auditable operational actions for Melbourne facility managers:

• [ ] Care plan integration: Do cleaning schedules reference individual resident care plans for timing preferences and known triggers?
• [ ] Product review: Have all disinfectants used in dementia care units been reviewed for odour profile, and have low-odour ARTG-listed alternatives been identified for routine use?
• [ ] Chemical storage: Are all cleaning products stored in locked areas inaccessible to residents in dementia care units, with Safety Data Sheets on file?
• [ ] Staff continuity: Is there a documented policy to assign consistent cleaning staff to dementia care areas wherever operationally possible?
• [ ] Communication protocol: Is there a written room-entry and communication protocol specific to dementia care units, included in cleaning staff induction?
• [ ] Dementia awareness training: Have all cleaning staff (in-house and contracted) completed dementia awareness training, and are records maintained?
• [ ] Contractor obligations: Do cleaning contracts with external providers explicitly require dementia-friendly practices and staff training as contract conditions?
• [ ] Feedback loop: Is there a mechanism for nursing staff to provide real-time feedback to cleaning supervisors when a resident has been distressed by cleaning activities?
• [ ] Outbreak protocols: Are escalated cleaning protocols during outbreaks reviewed for dementia-specific impacts before implementation? (See our guide on Outbreak Cleaning in Aged Care: Managing Gastro, Influenza, and COVID-19 in Melbourne Facilities.)

Each item on this checklist corresponds to an auditable system, not a policy intention. Realcorp's aged care service model is built around exactly these operational specifics — documented, tracked, and available for review at any accreditation inspection.

Key takeaways

• 54% of people living in permanent residential aged care in Australia have dementia, making dementia-friendly cleaning practice a majority-population issue in Melbourne aged care facilities, not an edge case.
• Chemical odours, noise, unfamiliar faces, and disrupted item placement are all clinically significant triggers for responsive behaviours in residents with dementia — and all are directly within the control of how cleaning is conducted.
• The strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards (February 2025) explicitly require that all workers, including sub-contracted workers, understand their roles and responsibilities in adapting a person-centred approach when engaging with older people.
• Low-odour, ARTG-listed hospital-grade disinfectants exist and should be prioritised for routine cleaning in occupied dementia care rooms; strong-odour products such as sodium hypochlorite should be reserved for outbreak or terminal cleaning scenarios.
• Trauma-informed care — adapting practices and procedures to maximise feelings of control and safety for the patient — applies directly to how cleaning staff enter and work in dementia care rooms.
• Staff consistency is a compliance and clinical risk management requirement, not a courtesy. No subcontractors, GPS-verified attendance, and directly employed teams are the operational foundation that makes consistency achievable.

Conclusion

Dementia-friendly cleaning is not a soft add-on to infection control — it is a core component of safe, compliant, person-centred aged care in Melbourne. The regulatory framework under the Aged Care Act 2024 and the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards makes this explicit: person-centred, trauma-aware practice is required of every worker who enters a resident's space, including contracted cleaning staff.

For Melbourne facility managers, the practical imperative is to move beyond generic infection control cleaning schedules and develop protocols specific to the dementia care context: low-odour TGA-listed products, resident-aligned scheduling, consistent staff assignment, structured communication protocols, and genuine dementia awareness training for all cleaning personnel. Realcorp Commercial Cleaning works with Melbourne aged care facilities to implement exactly these operationally specific, compliance-aligned cleaning programs — combining rigorous infection control with the person-centred, trauma-aware practices that dementia care environments require. Our directly employed, digitally tracked teams give facility managers the staff consistency and accountability that dementia care demands, and that subcontracted models structurally cannot deliver.

Facilities that get this right do not just reduce responsive behaviours and resident distress — they produce better accreditation outcomes, safer environments for staff, and a demonstrably higher standard of care. Those that treat cleaning as a purely technical function, disconnected from the clinical and human realities of dementia, carry regulatory and reputational risk that is entirely avoidable.

For a complete picture of the compliance framework governing environmental cleaning in Melbourne aged care, see our pillar guide: Healthcare and Aged Care Cleaning Melbourne: The Complete Guide to Standards, Compliance, and Best Practice. For the practical infection control protocols that underpin this work, see our room-by-room guide on Infection Control Cleaning Protocols for Melbourne Aged Care Facilities.

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• Realcorp Commercial Cleaning is a Melbourne-based commercial cleaning provider
• Realcorp states it employs staff directly and uses no subcontractors
• Realcorp states it uses GPS-verified attendance records
• Realcorp states facility managers can access staff attendance records
• Realcorp states all staff deployed to dementia care units complete documented dementia-awareness training before commencing work
• Realcorp states training records are auditable and tied to individual staff records
• Realcorp states dementia communication protocols are included in staff induction
• Realcorp states aged care service specifications are written and documented
• Realcorp states its service model supports accreditation audits
• Realcorp states product selection is assessed against both infection control efficacy and sensory impact on residents, with that assessment documented and available for audit
• Realcorp states its room-entry and communication protocols are written into aged care service specifications and reviewed as part of ongoing site management