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:
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
Recreational therapists are helping residents stay connected at St. Joseph’s Lifecare Centre and Dundas’s St. Joseph’s Villa in Ontario, Canada. They are getting creative with ways… Read More »Maintaining connection through visiting restrictions in long term care facilities (St. Joseph’s Health System, Canada)
8th April 2020 Adelina Comas-Herrera, CPEC, LSE The current COVID-19 guidance for care homes in the UK was issued on the 2nd of April: (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-admission-and-care-of-people-in-care-homes.… Read More »Briefing note: Current UK guidance on admission and care of residents during COVID-19 is based on symptomatic cases, ignoring early international evidence and lessons from other countries.
By Maria Pierce, Independent Research and Adjunct Faculty Member, Dublin City University 8th April, 2020 In Ireland, epidemiological data on COVID-19 is collected centrally. Reports… Read More »Mechanisms to collect data on nursing homes and COVID-19 in Ireland
By Michaël R. Laurent, MD PhD, geriatrician, Imelda Hospital Bonheiden @MichalLaurent11 5th April, 2020 Residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) already account for one-third of… Read More »Report: Lessons from failed COVID-19 control in Belgian nursing homes
The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) is a not-for-profit organisation focussed on improving integrated care though multidisciplinary collaborative efforts. In response to COVID-19, IFIC… Read More »8 April Webinar: Care during and beyond the COVID-19 Crisis- Building integrated care as the cornerstone of our new reality (IFIC)
The United Kingdom’s Adult Social Care Directorate (Department of Health and Social Care) published guidance on admission and care of residents during COVID-19 on the… Read More »NEW: UK guidance on admission and care of residents during COVID-19 incident in a care home
By Lee-Fay Low (University of Sidney) Last update: 3rd April 2020 Background Australia spends $18.4 Billion dollars on aged care a year, the additional funds are 2.4%… Read More »Australia: COVID-19 impact on long-term care and mitigation measures
A letter to the editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society by Li Feng Tan and Santhosh Seetharaman, published on the 26th of… Read More »Article summary: Preventing the spread of COVID-19 to Nursing Homes, Evidence from a Singapore Geriatric Centre (Tan and Seetharaman)
