A new mental health and psychosocial support toolkit for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic has been developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group… Read More »Living with the Times, A Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Toolkit for Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, by IASC
Thomas Fischer (@ProfessorPflege), Evangelische Hochschule Dresden The full guideline documents in German are available here: https://www.awmf.org/leitlinien/detail/ll/184-002.html Under the auspices of the German Society for Nursing… Read More »New German guideline on community care during the COVID-19-pandemic
The World Health Organization has updated its interim guidance first published on 21 March 2020) on for long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19,… Read More »World Health Organization: updated Infection Prevention and Control interim guidance for long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19, 8 January 2021
Jan Steyaert, Jurn Verschraegen, Leentje De Wachter The original of this text was published 11th of December 2020 in Flemish, as: Steyaert, J., Verschraegen, J., & De… Read More »Vaccination strategy in residential care centres in Belgium: “Does father get a shot against corona?”
By Jenni Burton Care home residents, staff and relatives have suffered disproportionately from the impacts of COVID-19. Much has been learned on an international level… Read More »New resources for care home staff supporting residents with COVID-19
Eric Fewster, BA, MSc, C.WEM, MCIWEM, CEnv, Independent Water & Environmental Manager, Salford, UK A revised version of the document ‘Care homes strategy for Infection… Read More »Updated resource: Care homes strategy for Infection Prevention & Control of COVID-19 based on a clear delineation of risk zones
Lindsay Farrant and Kerene Payne, School of Public Health and Family Medicine (Palliative Medicine), University of Cape Town At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic… Read More »Responding to the Palliative Care needs of the South African people during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Sarah Russell, Suzanne Wightman, Professional and Practice Development Team, Dementia UK and family carers with lived experience. The outbreak of coronavirus has been a… Read More »Dementia UK: Care Homes and the Coronavirus Outbreak Advice and Information
Este recurso que originalmente se publicó en línea en el Reino Unido el 18 de abril, ahora se encuentra disponible en español. Un recurso práctico… Read More »Recurso: Traducción al español de la Estrategia para la prevención y control de infecciones por COVID-19 en instituciones de cuidados a largo plazo basada en delimitación explícita de zonas de riesgo.
This resource that originally went online in the UK on 18th April, has now been translated into Portuguese. A practical resource with a strategy for… Read More »Resource: Portuguese translation of the Care Homes Strategy for Infection Prevention & Control of Covid-19 Based on Clear Delineation of Risk Zones.
