Berridge, C., Parsey, C.M., Ramirez, M., Freitag, C., Johnson, I.M., Allard, S.W. An interdisciplinary team of aging researchers at the University of Washington released a… Read More »Caring for Washington’s older adults in the COVID-19 pandemic: Interviews with organization leaders about the state of social and healthcare services
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?”
Eric Fewster, Independent Water & Environmental Manager, UK This care homes strategy is based around a fundamental understanding of asymptomatic / pre-symptomatic transmission as a… Read More »Updated Care homes strategy for Infection Prevention and Control of COVID-19, based on a clear delineation of risk zones
Florien Kruse, Radboud Medical Centre, IQ healthcare Call for collaboration The COVID-19 pandemic hit the residential and nursing home sector hard in both the first… Read More »Does ownership matter in the response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the residential and nursing home sector?
The aim of this webinar/ conversation is to discuss differences in the policy responses (and impacts) between the 1st and subsequent waves, and also to… Read More »Next LTCcovid webinar/conversation: International experiences of 2nd, 3rd waves, vaccines and beyond in the long-term care sector, 14th December, 2pm GMT
Wossenseged Jemberie As of November 11th, 2020 the total number of people with confirmed COVID-19 case in Sweden is 166,707 and increasing. COVID-19 specific mortality… Read More »COVID-19: Opportunities for interdisciplinary research to improve care for older people in Sweden
Florien Kruse, Lisa van Tol, Cilla Vrinzen, Oemar van der Woerd, Patrick Jeurissen The full report is available here: Key points: The Dutch nursing home… Read More »Updated country report: The impact of COVID-19 on long-term care in the Netherlands – the second wave
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has issued a rapid risk assessment, as increasing reports of COVID-19 outbreaks in LTCFs are being… Read More »The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) issues a Rapid Risk Assessment for people living in LTC facilities in the EU/EEA and the UK
We have created a new page to facilitate updating: If you would like to to contribute information about a project, please send the following to… Read More »Completed or ongoing research projects on COVID-19 and long-term care
In order to facilitate cross-learning and collaborations, LTCcovid.org will create a new page listing ongoing and completed research projects on COVID-19 and long-term care. In… Read More »Call for information on ongoing and completed research projects on COVID-19 and long-term care
