From the COVID response Traumagroup.org, evidence-based guidance on supporting care home workers during COVID-19, given the additional challenges they face during this pandemic, as they… Read More »Guidance for Managers and Decision Makers in Supporting Care Home Workers during COVID-19 (Traumagroup.org)
Adelina Comas-Herrera, CPEC-LSE In the guidance documents on how to contain the spread of COVID-19 infections in care homes in most countries (including the UK),… Read More »The problem of asymptomatic positive infections among care home staff and residents: emerging evidence and implications
Klara Lorenz-Dant, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science Last updated: 15.04.2020 Key points The German Government has issued financial… Read More »Report on the COVID-19 long-term care situation in Germany
Amy T. Hsu PhD (University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research—Bruyère Research Institute Chair in Primary Health Care Dementia Research) and Natasha Lane MD PhD… Read More »Impact of COVID-19 on residents of Canada’s long-term care homes — ongoing challenges and policy response
April 11th, 2020 By Sharona Tsadok-Rosenbluth CPA, MHA, PhD candidate and Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Health Systems Management, the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business… Read More »Report: Contagion and deaths related to COVID-19 in Israel in sheltered housing and long-term care institutions – lessons to be learned
Adelina Comas-Herrera, Joseba Zalakaín, Elizabeth Lemmon, David Henderson, Charles Litwin, Amy T. Hsu, Andrea E. Schmidt, Greg Arling, Florien Kruse and Jose-Luis Fernández Older reports:
Michael Lepore, PhD Vice President, LiveWell Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University 11th April 2020 COVID-19 cases have… Read More »Going Public? Reporting of COVID-19 Cases in Long-Term Care Settings
By Maria Pierce, Independent Research and Adjunct Faculty Member, Dublin City University 11th April, 2020 (this post is an updated version of: https://ltccovid.org/2020/04/08/mechanisms-to-collect-data-on-nursing-homes-and-covid-19-in-ireland/) In Ireland,… Read More »Monitoring and reporting deaths related to COVID-19 in Ireland: up to 54% of deaths due to COVID-19 were nursing home residents
By Sara Berloto, Elisabetta Notarnicola, Eleonora Perobelli, Andrea Rotolo from the Observatory on Long Term Care, Cergas SDA Bocconi 10th April 2020 The Italian LTC… Read More »Report on COVID-19 and Long-Term Care in Italy: lessons learned from an absent crisis management
By Dr. Alenka Oven, director of Institute for Long-term care, Slovenia, 9th April 2020 Impact of the COVID19 outbreak so far and population level measures… Read More »The impact of COVID-19 on people who use and provide long-term care in Slovenia and mitigation measures
