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Most aged care homes and retirement villages already run some version of this. Here is where each way of doing it runs out, and what Apworth does instead.
A rostering tool for the roster, an engagement app for residents, a spreadsheet for money, a folder for compliance.
Good atEach tool is good at its own slice, and the rostering ones in particular are strong.
Runs out atThey do not join up. The same resident, shift or incident is entered in several places, and nothing reconciles them. Every question that crosses two tools becomes a manual one.
One app for resident communication, notices, events and family updates.
Good atThe community side is handled well, and residents get a single place to look.
Runs out atIt stops at the office door. Rostering, award-aware pay, incident and asset registers, and the audit evidence usually live in other systems again.
Excel rosters, printed schedules, paper request forms, a physical noticeboard.
Good atCheap, familiar, and nobody needs training.
Runs out atIt holds until a shift is missed or a request is lost between handovers, and families only hear from you when something has already gone wrong. None of it stands up as an audit record.
What Apworth Does Instead
Workforce, community, wallet and governance in the same place, so the roster, the resident, the invoice and the incident are the same records rather than four copies. A question that used to cross tools is one sentence to Ask.
Priced per community, not per user, so nobody gets left off to save money. And Apworth is not a clinical system, so it runs alongside the clinical software you already have rather than trying to replace it.
Bring the tools you use now and we will show you what consolidating looks like, not a canned tour.