By Kai Leichsenring, Heidemarie Staflinger, Annette Bauer The Covid-19 outbreak is highlighting the fragility of European Long Term Care (LTC) systems at all levels. In… Read More »Report: The importance of migrant caregivers in the Austrian Long Term Care system highlighted by the COVID19 outbreak
The Northern Health and Social Care (NHSC) Trust serves a portion of the population in Northern Ireland. They have created ‘Supporting Carers and Care Staff to Understand and Respond… Read More »Understanding and Responding to Changes in Behaviour in People with Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic (NHSC Trust, UK)
Professor Shereen Hussein, PSSRU Kent Twitter: @DrShereeHussein The COVID19 pandemic has created urgent and unparalleled pressures on health systems across the world including the United… Read More »Report: Impact of COVID19 on Frontline Long Term Care Workers’ Wellbeing
Skills for Care, an independent UK charity supporting adult social care, has created a list of helpful links related to COVID-19. In addition, they are… Read More »Collection of links to support social care (Skills for Care, UK)
Adelina Comas-Herrera (CPEC) There is a growing number of examples of “strike teams” or “rapid response teams” being sent to care homes that become overwhelmed,… Read More »Tackling COVID-19 outbreaks and staff shortages in care homes: deploying rapid response teams
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)
Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) creates educational content for the NHS and professional organisations. HEE e-LfH created a free online programme for COVID-19 for health… Read More »Free COVID-19 e-learning programme for health and care workers (HEE e-LfH, UK)
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 Kai Leichsenring, Andrea Schmidt, Annette Bauer To address expected shortages in care provided to people in their own home, either provided by migrant care… Read More »Report: Planning for expected shortages in migrant and family care in Austria
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)
