GENERAL GUIDELINES AGAINST SPREAD OF COVID -19

  1. Do not keep segregated garbage in the open. Ensure that the Garbage collector collects it before you complete the work in that dwelling
    1. Remind the residents to clean their mobile phones
    1. Report to the Supervisor if you find any resident having any of the symptoms of fever, cough, cold, running nose or complaining of headache
    1. Resident need not sign the Notebook that you carry. If any complaints, they can call the HK Supervisor.
    1. No housekeeping staff to carry notebooks or any personal items to any dwelling

By Buggy and Car Drivers, Company Two Wheelers:

  1. Clean the buggy and car thoroughly every day in the morning
  2. Use Hand Sanitizer before and after helping a senior to get in/out of the buggy or car
  3. Use Dettol water to clean the car and buggy from inside. In the case of Buggy, it must be done before and after breakfast, lunch and dinner when the Buggy is used. A record will be maintained, and the RM/F & B Supervisor would ensure the same
  4. Ensure Tissue Papers are available but after use, do not throw it outside but ask the resident or guest to take it with him or her and dispose it off in garbage bin
  5. Inform RM in case you find any resident with any of the signs of fever, cough, cold, runny nose etc.
  6. Do not take such passengers inside the dining room but call the RHM to check them out first
  7. Wash your hands after completion of work before entering any space in the RC

Services and Care Facilities:

Retirement Communities have facilities for providing services and care to the seniors with lounges, dining room, staff dining, Activity Centre, Multi-purpose hall, private dine-ins, medical centre, physiotherapy or rehab centre, library, reading room, Yoga and Meditation Hall, Activity Centre, Multi-purpose hall, Open air theatre or Amphitheatre etc. Some also have Assisted Care Centres

  1. Most of the residents come to enjoy the services and care that is offered at these facilities. These are high traffic areas and we need to look at each of these more critically and add some more precautions mainly because of the design and usage of these facilities.
  2. Maintain the prescribed social distance by keeping 1 metre (3 feet) while using the indoor games facility or sitting in the library to read books.
  3. At the Dining room space the chairs accordingly to maintain physical distance.
  4. Stagger meals to ensure physical distance maintained between residents or if not feasible, close dining halls and serve residents individual meals in their rooms where needed.
  5. All handrails to be cleaned with Dettol diluted in water and with clean cloth 30 mins before and after each meal in the dining room.