By Jae Yeon Lyu, research assistant at CPEC-LSE Preventing the spread of COVID-19 in residential care settings: To guarantee that self-isolation works in residential settings,… Read More »Report: The South Korean approach to managing COVID-19 outbreaks in residential care settings and to maintaining community-based care services
By Kai Leichsenring, Andrea Schmidt, Annette Bauer To address expected shortages in care provided to people in their own home, either provided by migrant care… Read More »Report: Planning for expected shortages in migrant and family care in Austria
By Florien Kruse & Toine Remers, Radboud University Medical Center. Background The first Dutch COVID-19 case was detected on 27th February in Noord-Brabant (a province… Read More »Report: Nursing homes and COVID-19, policy responses in the Netherlands
By Fernando Fantova The COVID-19 emergency is characterized by its novel and vertiginous nature. It is an unprecedented situation in which everything is changing incredibly… Read More »Responding to COVID-19 in Spain: Returning from care homes to live with families as an alternative?
There are examples from Spain and the UK of staff “locking in” care homes to live with the residents, in order to reduce the risk… Read More »Turning care homes to isolation centres: staff moving into care homes to minimize the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks (Spain and UK)
By Adelina Comas-Herrera, CPEC Following the news that the Spanish army was deployed to overwhelmed nursing homes to find that residents had been abandoned and… Read More »More nursing homes in Spain overwhelmed by COVID-19
By Tara P. Sani (Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia/Alzheimer Indonesia). Indonesia’s deaf and hard of hearing community has sent an open letter to President… Read More »Report from Indonesia: Improved access to COVID-19 information required for people living with a disability
By Courtney H. Van Houtven and Nathan Boucher As COVID-19spreads in the U.S., the long-term services and supports (LTSS or LTC) system is grappling with… Read More »Report from the U.S.: the COVID-19 epidemic’s arrival reveals safety net gaps and deficiencies that will harm long-term care workers, carers, and their care recipients
By Lee-Fay Low (University of Sidney) Australia’s first COVID outbreak in long term care Australia’s second and third COVID-19 deaths were 95-year old and 82-year-old… Read More »Report: COVID-19 in nursing homes and policy responses in Australia
By Adelina Comas-Herrera (CPEC) As disturbing news emerge about the collapse of nursing homes in Spain due to COVID-19, where the army entered to find… Read More »COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths in residential and nursing homes: lessons learnt from Spain, Italy and the US
