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Video and slides of the LTCcovid webinar on: The COVID-19 outbreak in the care home sector – does ownership matter? (20th July)

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Globally, residents in care homes have experienced disproportionately high morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. Resident frailty and pre-existing structural issues in care homes are at least partly responsible. Factors that are external to the control of individual home operators, such as limited access to a sufficient supply of PPE and testing kits available from local public health authorities, also played a role in the extend of the spread of COVID-19. Despite these common vulnerabilities, not all care homes suffered equally from COVID-19. This webinar explored the potential role of home ownership on outcomes associated with COVID-19 outbreaks in care homes.

Speakers:

Florien Kruse, Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum:

Amy Hsu, University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research and Bruyère Research Institute

Next webinar: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on unpaid carers, 3rd August, 14.00 GMT

Speakers:

Klara Lorenz-Dant (Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science): Impact of the pandemic on unpaid carers so far, and measures adopted to support them

Iracema Leroi (Trinity College Dublin and Global Brain Health Institute): Coping with Loneliness, Isolation and Covid-19 – Hearing the Voice of Carers

Additional speakers to be confirmed

Q&A

Further discussion will take place between 15.00-15.30 to allow for discussion to continue after the presentations for those who can continue after 15.00.

Registration details will be added shortly