In person contact with family and other visitors are extremely important to people living in care homes. In many countries visits to care homes have… Read More »National and regional guidance relating to allowing family and other visitors back into care homes
Reopening care homes – Lee-Fay Low, University of Sidney, Australia 0:01:35 Dr Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith, De Montfort University, UK 21:08 Allowing visitors back in nursing homes,… Read More »Video and slides from the 6th of July LTCcovid webinar: Re-opening care homes to family and other visitors
Jill Manthorpe, Kritika Samsi, Katharine Orellana & Caroline Green (NIHR ARC South London Social Care theme team) Most day centres have been closed to regular… Read More »New resource: Helping adult day centres to unlock lockdown
Claire Goodman (Centre for Research in Public health and Community Care (CRIPACC) University of Hertfordshire) When Covid-19 hit care homes there was no guidance on… Read More »New resource: Top Tips for Tricky Times, Evidence and guidance grounded in good practice and experience to support care homes
Maximilian Salcher-Konrad 1, Arnoupe Jhass,2,3 Huseyin Naci,4 Marselia Tan,1 Yousef El-Tawil,4 Adelina Comas-Herrera 1 1 Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC), Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2 Research… Read More »Updated findings: Living systematic review of emerging evidence on COVID-19 related mortality and spread of disease in long-term care
Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham, Min Qin and Athina Vlachantoni Centre for Population Change and Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Southampton Link to paper:… Read More »Older and ‘staying at home’ during lockdown: analysis of informal care receipt during the COVID-19 pandemic amongst people aged 70 and over in the UK
With presentations by Dr Jenni Burton (University of Glasgow), Dr Jose- Luis Fernandez, (London School of Economics and Political Science), Dr Patrick Alexander Wachholz, (São Paulo… Read More »Video of the 5th LTCcovid webinar (22nd June) on opportunities and barriers for using care home data to inform the response to COVID-19
15 June 2020 Etuini Ma’u, Jackie Robinson, Gary Cheung, Sarah Cullum (University of Auckland) Aotearoa New Zealand has a population of 5 million, with the… Read More »COVID-related deaths in LTC in Aotearoa New Zealand (Brief Report)
Dr Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith (Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester) Aim/Objectives: The aim of this COVID-19 related study, which started in early May, is… Read More »New study: The experience of family carers and keeping in regular contact with loved ones who permanently live in a care home during the COVID-19 Pandemic, a UK perspective
Speakers Dr Jenni Burton, University of Glasgow Dr Jose- Luis Fernandez, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and… Read More »Next LTCcovid webinar: opportunities and barriers for using care home data to inform the response to COVID-19, 22nd June (2pm GMT)
