8 things to look for when choosing a care management software

Just recently I was conversing with a manager of a care home and when asked whether she is using a care management software she replied, “I am not at the moment, but I guess I should as that looks like where it’s going for the future!” If you are reading this and you manage a care home and you think you need to venture out onto the path of digitization, but you feel so lost as to which one to choose then keep reading.

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Do you often wonder how you can improve the mental health of your residents? Do you worry that the care they are receiving may be sufficient for their physical needs but doesn’t quite cover their mental well-being? It is widely noted that older people are more susceptible to mental health problems, so it is imperative mental health is given an important role when providing care and in the care management software you choose. 2020 has been a turbulent year for many due to the pandemic and care home residents are not exempt from dealing with numerous mental health issues. Here are 4 ways in which you can improve the mental wellbeing of your residents.
Keeping connections alive
During the pandemic, many families could not visit care homes which would inevitably have had negative effects on the residents’ mental wellbeing. Though restrictions are lifted now, the same way of physical contact we enjoyed before March is still long gone. Many may have lost their loved ones during this time too. It’s important that the families of residents are always kept in the loop with how they are doing, and regular catchups are arranged virtually or otherwise. The power of human connection and the effect it can have on our mental wellbeing is second to none.

Physical activities
When family members can’t visit often or they live too far away, providing engaging and stimulating social activities with other fellow residents where they can converse and engage with each other is paramount to their mental wellbeing. Planning activities such as game nights, movie days, social dining can all be ways to engage with residents and ultimately provides them with something to look forward to every morning.

Physical problems
Often when we think of mental health, we always overlook physical wellbeing – forgetting that they both work hand in hand. It’s important to keep track of all physical ailments that may have deteriorated over time and may be causing residents pain or adding to their stress. Unieke’s body mapping chart helps you to manage the residents’ physical wellbeing and keep it up to date.

Choosing Unieke
Providing the best person-centred care that involves mental health wellbeing begins, as always, with efficient care management software. A well rounded, detailed care management software that includes all your resident’s needs and even the option for providing the next of kin with access so they, too, can contribute to their care plan and be in the know of how they are doing can be lifesaving. This is where Unieke’s tailor-made care management software can help you in your endeavours. We are delighted to be offering our basic plan for free.

Experience UK’s Leading Care Home Management Software. A smart system to manage care plans, assessments, reports, appointments and staff in every care home. A perfect care home management system for nursing and residential care homes. We have all the assessments and reports you will ever need – be it for a service user or a staff member. Let our software take care of all the administration so you can spend more time caring.

A brief overview of a care home software and its purpose

Care homes are a vital part of the UK’s health and social care setting. People need special skills and understanding to work with the most vulnerable people in the community. To safeguard and provide best person-centred care in care homes, staff needs to spend valuable time with the individuals. Government has also outlined best practices and laws in place to make sure that care homes follow best practices.

In order to comply with government rules and regulation and to make sure that care home provides the best care, staff needs to spend a lot of time on recording and updating health care assessments. Administration takes up a lot of valuable time of skilled staff in providing person-centred care for residents in care homes.

This is where a care management software comes in place to make life easier to staff and helps residents to get the best care.

It is a software application that helps you to manage all the care plans, risk assessments, and other health care assessments. Advanced care home software packages even let you manage your staff records like supervision, appraisals, matrixes, rota, and timesheets. Unieke offers a fully tailor-made software which makes us different from others as you can add your own features/assessment/templates in the system on top of our 50 plus assessments. We also work with care home providers and managers to improve our service and more assessments regularly.

How care home software helps you?

As you add the day to day activities in the system it gives you a detailed insight into the residents. This helps you to make decisions based on these reports and provide person-centred care to the residents. Care home software reduces duplicate works and helps you update or review documents with smart suggestion tools based on the informations available. Doing it in the paper makes you go through different folders and documents to get vital information when updating care plans or risk assessments. In a care home software, it gives you all vital information when you update assessments and reminds you when any assessments are due to update, so you don’t miss any updates or reviews. We offer a scalable and flexible system that adapts to your care home’s growth. Our built-in compliance checks ensure that your documentation is compliant with regulations. As regulations change, we will keep the software updated to keep you in compliance.

How much a care home software cost?

When choosing to invest financially in software, it is important to look around for the best deals. Many offer plans that are separated by product so one for care plans, one for staff management etc. It is often best to streamline everything, so you have it all in one place. When you choose Unieke’s care home software it doesn’t cost you anything, no setup fee, no advance payment or contracts. We offer our basic plan for free during this pandemic and we only charge the active users. We also offer a tailor-made software package with unlimited assessments and all new latest updates from us to keep you update and compliant with CQC.