Aged Care Laundry Service
Compassionate & Reliable

Aged care facilities process enormous volumes of laundry daily — bed linen, towels, personal clothing, and soiled items — and the standard must be impeccable. Residents' health, comfort, and dignity depend on it. For Canberra's aged care sector, laundry management is complicated by several factors unique to the industry. Incontinence-affected items require pre-treatment and high-temperature sanitisation. Personal clothing must be individually labelled, sorted, and returned to the correct resident. Infection control protocols must be followed rigorously, especially during outbreaks of gastroenteritis or respiratory illness. Many facilities operate in-house laundries, but the costs are significant: commercial equipment maintenance, labour, water, energy, chemicals, and the facility space dedicated to laundry processing. Staff turnover in laundry roles adds recruitment and training costs on top. The Aged Care Quality Standards (Standard 3 — Personal Care and Clinical Care) explicitly reference maintaining residents' personal hygiene, including clothing and bedding. Outsourcing laundry to a professional provider ensures consistent compliance with these standards while freeing facility staff to focus on direct care activities. Professional aged care laundry isn't just operational efficiency — it's a care quality decision.