COVID19: Providing palliative care for the many
By Annette Bauer, CPEC LSE Palliative care has an important role to play in the response to Covid-19, in order to ensure that people who… Read More »COVID19: Providing palliative care for the many
Researcher working on global ageing, dementia and long-term care
By Annette Bauer, CPEC LSE Palliative care has an important role to play in the response to Covid-19, in order to ensure that people who… Read More »COVID19: Providing palliative care for the many
Professor Shereen Hussein, PSSRU Kent Twitter: @DrShereeHussein The COVID19 pandemic has created urgent and unparalleled pressures on health systems across the world including the United… Read More »Report: Impact of COVID19 on Frontline Long Term Care Workers’ Wellbeing
Vanessa Davey, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca 29th March 2020 The pace of expansion of the COVID-19 epidemic in Spain has been very fast. Comparative… Read More »Report: the COVID19 crisis in care homes in Spain: recipe for a perfect storm
Maria Pierce, Independent Research and Adjunct Faculty Member, Dublin City University 29.03.2020 There are 637,567 people aged 65 years and in Ireland, making up 13.4%… Read More »Report: Key issues facing the home care sector in Ireland during COVID-19
Adelina Comas-Herrera and Jose-Luis Fernandez-Plotka (CPEC, LSE) Latest update: 30th March 2020 pm This document summarizes policy measures have been compiled mostly from contributions to… Read More »Summary of international policy measures to limit impact of COVID19 on people who rely on the Long-Term Care sector
Adelina Comas-Herrera and Jose-Luis Fernandez-Plotka (CPEC, LSE) 29th March 2020 Presentation that summarises key measures to prevent and control COVID19 outbreaks in care homes, and… Read More »Key measures to prevent and control COVID19 outbreaks in care homes and support continuity of care
In an attempt to shield care home residents from infection, 150 care home residents without symptoms are being moved into hotel accommodation in Barcelona. So… Read More »Report from Spain: Moving care home residents to hotels in Barcelona to reduce risk of COVID-19 contagion
Adelina Comas-Herrera (CPEC) There is a growing number of examples of “strike teams” or “rapid response teams” being sent to care homes that become overwhelmed,… Read More »Tackling COVID-19 outbreaks and staff shortages in care homes: deploying rapid response teams
Summary of a Morbidity and Mortality report by Kimball et al (see citation and link below). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US) tested… Read More »Article summary: symptom-based screening in Skilled Nursing Facilities could fail to identify half of residents with COVID19
Article by Barnett and Grabowski as an Insight in JAMA highlighting the vulnerability of nursing homes to infection. It reports on the initial infection in… Read More »Article summary: Nursing homes are Ground Zero for COVID-19 epidemic (by ML Barnett and DC Grabowski)