The Corona Older platform has published a piece, reproduced below, drawing attention to the WHO Global Omicron Technical Brief and adding additional commentary. The piece… Read More »OMICRON and older people in Low and Middle-Income countries (Corona-Older)
Caitlin Littleton, HelpAge International COVID-19, Older Adults and Long-Term Care in the Asia Pacific Region is a November 2020 report prepared by Justine Irving of… Read More »COVID-19, Older Adults and Long-Term Care in the Asia Pacific Region
Alice Ashwell, Roxanne Jacobs, Sumaiyah Docrat and Marguerite Schneider (STRiDE South Africa) With the outbreak of Covid-19 in South Africa in March 2020, the National… Read More »How Long-term Dementia Care Facilities in South Africa have coped with the Covid-19 Lockdown
On 30 October 2pm UK time, the Global Platform on COVID-19 and older adults in Low and Middle-Income countries will run a webinar jointly with… Read More »Webinar: COVID-19 and Long-Term Care for people living at home in low and middle-income countries, 30th October
Kejal Hasmuk, Department of Medicine, University of Malaya Medical Centre; Hakimah Sallehuddin, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM); Maw Pin Tan, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya,… Read More »Updated country report: The Long-Term Care COVID-19 situation in Malaysia
Patrick A. Wachholz, Cleusa P. Ferri, Elaine Mateus, Fabiana da Mata, Paulo J.F. Villas-Boas, Helena A.W.Watanabe, Déborah Oliveira The full report is available here: Key… Read More »Updated report: COVID-19 situation in Brazilian care homes and actions taken to mitigate infection and reduce mortality
Caitlin Littleton, Asia Pacific Regional Programme Adviser- Care and Health, HelpAge International. Contact: caitlin@helpageasia.org The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the inadequacy of current societal and… Read More »COVID-19, women and the care economy: a new UN Women policy brief
Alice Ashwell, Roxanne Jacobs, Sumaiyah Docrat and Marguerite Schneider (STRiDE South Africa) The full report (including initial survey findings) is available here: Key findings: Provision… Read More »The Impact of Covid-19 on Long-term Care Facilities in South Africa, with a specific focus on Dementia Care
Kejal Hasmuk, Hakimah Sallehuddin, Maw Pin Tan, Wee Kooi Cheah, Rahimah Ibrahim, Sen Tyng Chai The report is available here: Key findings: Malaysia has ten… Read More »Updated report: The COVID-19 Long-Term Care situation in Malaysia
Roxanne Jacobs (Centre for Public Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, STRIDE) Due to underreporting, elder abuse is considered a hidden problem globally. … Read More »COVID-19 and elder abuse, a perspective from South Africa
