LTCcovid aims to:
- Document the impact of COVID-19 on people who rely on long-term care (including unpaid care) and those who provide it
- Share information about policy and practice measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in long-term care and gather evidence about their success or otherwise.
- Analyse the long-term implications of this pandemic for long-term care policy.
COUNTRY REPORTS
Impact of COVID-19 long-term care system, policy and practice measures adopted, implementation challenges
INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Cross-country reports covering data on impact of COVID-19 and policy and practice measures
EMERGING EVIDENCE
Summaries of studies on the impact of COVID-19 on long-term care and evaluations of mitigation measures.
CURATED RESOURCES
Links to websites with guidance and other materials to support both service providers and people who
use long-term care
Latest Blog Posts
- Justice for Older people in South AfricaBy Roxanne Jacobs a*, Marguerite Schneider a and Nicolas Farina b aAlan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape… Read More »Justice for Older people in South Africa
- Webinar announcement: Taking stock of Covid-19 and the Long-Term Care sector in Germany, 5th July 2pm GMTThis webinar, chaired by Klara Lorenz-Dant (Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science) will bring together researchers who have been… Read More »Webinar announcement: Taking stock of Covid-19 and the Long-Term Care sector in Germany, 5th July 2pm GMT
- The Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on informal carers across Europe (Eurocarers)Eurocarers in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (IRCCS-INRCA), and with the support of the European Commission, carried out an… Read More »The Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on informal carers across Europe (Eurocarers)
- Video and slides of the webinar on: The social care sector in England and Covid-19, mapping the way towards recovery and increased resilience, 24th MayThe slides are available here: This webinar shared and gathered feedback on, research to identify areas in which international evidence can inform policy and practice… Read More »Video and slides of the webinar on: The social care sector in England and Covid-19, mapping the way towards recovery and increased resilience, 24th May
Twitter feed @LTCcovid
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Justice for Older people in South Africa https://ltccovid.org/2021/06/15/justice-for-older-people-in-south-africa/ via @AdelinaCoHe
NEW TODAY: Estimating background rates of hospital transfers & deaths in aged care facilities, following COVID-19 vaccination ... #freeaccess #preprint ... "Aggregated rates of hospital transfer & death estimated to be 5.55 & 2.53 per 100 bed-months" https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/estimating-background-rates-hospital-transfers-and-deaths-aged-care-facilities
After two waves of covid, residents of UK care homes are *still* invisible in national datasets. New @pandemicethics_ review from myself, @melaniesmallman & @jamesgswilson picks apart the reasons why, & points out some strategies for policy and research
https://ukpandemicethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Making-older-people-visible-in-care-home-data-by-solving-the-denominator-problem.pdf
This year's theme for Elder Abuse Awareness Day is "Access to Justice". Watch UN-hosted webinar live via https://www.un.org/development/desa/ageing/world-elder-abuse-awareness-day/2021-2.html, about this very important issue, in accessing justice during the Covid-19 pandemic. @STRiDEDementia, @CPMentalHealth, @GCRF #elderabuseawarenessday https://twitter.com/LTCcovid/status/1404783041927696385
On #ElderAbuseAwarenessDay: Justice for Older people in South Africa, by @roxannejacobsSA, @margie_who and@DrNFarina, @STRiDE_SA, @STRiDEDementia, @CPMentalHealth @GCRF #ElderAbuse #StopElderAbuse https://ltccovid.org/2021/06/15/justice-for-older-people-in-south-africa/
On #ElderAbuseAwarenessDay: Justice for Older people in South Africa, by @roxannejacobsSA, @margie_who and@DrNFarina, @STRiDE_SA, @STRiDEDementia, @CPMentalHealth @GCRF #ElderAbuse #StopElderAbuse https://ltccovid.org/2021/06/15/justice-for-older-people-in-south-africa/
New research project added to @LTCcovid
The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator, provides rapid evidence, guidance, and critical analysis to inform policy and help improve decisionmaking, with several outputs looking at social care https://ltccovid.org/project/uk-pandemic-ethics-accelerator/ @PandemicEthics_ @cian
Read the @CPEC_LSE report, "The impact of COVID-19 on people living in institutional settings": https://www.lse.ac.uk/cpec/assets/documents/CPEC-Covid-Desinstitutionalisation.pdf Findings include:
🔵Restrictions on individuals’ rights
🔵Damage to their physical and mental health
🔵Shortened life-spans
@LTCcovid @AdelinaCoHe @Knappem
Please share this survey widely everyone. We need one response per Care home, as asking about what data homes currently collect, to inform design of a minimum dataset. This is a portfolio study. @CHSS_Kent @pssru_kent @NCFCareForum @ARC_KSS @enrich_research @skillsforcare https://twitter.com/dacha_study/status/1403306565596332037
We are looking for managers and senior carers who work in older people's care homes to complete a 15-min online survey about care home data collection and sharing: https://newcastle.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/a-national-online-survey-about-care-home-data-collection This national survey will capture how much data care homes are already collecting #carehomes
Thank you for the opportunity to share some learnings from our @dgp_pflege work on developing guidelines for community and social care during #COVID19 #nursing https://twitter.com/AdelinaCoHe/status/1404452095009431552
Webinar announcement: Taking stock of Covid-19 and the Long-Term Care sector in Germany, 5th July 2pm GMT https://ltccovid.org/2021/06/14/webinar-announcement-taking-stock-of-covid-19-and-the-long-term-care-sector-in-germany-5th-july-2pm-gmt/
Webinar announcement: Taking stock of Covid-19 and the Long-Term Care sector in Germany, 5th July 2pm GMT https://ltccovid.org/2021/06/14/webinar-announcement-taking-stock-of-covid-19-and-the-long-term-care-sector-in-germany-5th-july-2pm-gmt/