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)
By Kayla Wong, Terry Lum and Gloria Wong (HKU), 27th March In Hong Kong, because of the experience with the SARS epidemic in 2003, the… Read More »Report from Hong Kong: Long-Term Care Responses to COVID-19 by Increased Use of Information and Communication Technology
As reported in a previous post about the situation in care homes in Madrid, triage protocols used by hospitals mean that care home staff find… Read More »When the ambulances don’t turn up: implications of the COVID-19 hospital triage protocols for nursing homes in Madrid
By Klara Lorenz-Dant, CPEC The high risk of infection to people living in care and nursing homes has been recognised and different bodies across Germany… Read More »Report: preventing and managing COVID-19 infections in care and nursing homes, examples from Germany
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 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
As the number people requiring hospital treatment for COVID-19 is expected to surge over the coming days and weeks, hospitals are trying to discharge older… Read More »Organising transitions from hospitals to care homes to free up capacity for people with COVID-19 (UK)
