Updated 28th May 2020 By Aida Suarez-Gonzalez1, Gill Livingston2 and Adelina Comas-Herrera3 (with thanks to the Alzheimer’s Society for providing some of the data included… Read More »Updated Report: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people living with dementia in UK
Román Romero-Ortuño1, Seán Kennelly2 Associate Professor, Discipline of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin; Consultant Physician, St James’s Hospital, Dublin Consultant Physician, Department… Read More »COVID-19 deaths in Irish Nursing Homes: exploring variation and association with the adherence to national regulatory quality standards
1st June, 2pm GMT (1 hour of webinar followed by 30 minutes of discussion) Featuring: Terry Lum (The University of Hong Kong), Tan Maw Pin… Read More »Next webinar, 1st June: The COVID-19 Long-term COVID-19 situation in Hong Kong, Malaysia and South Korea
Kejal Hasmuk, Hakimah Sallehuddin, Maw Pin Tan, Wee Kooi Cheah, Rahimah Ibrahim, Sen Tyng Chai Key findings: Malaysia has ten (10) federal-funded old folks’ homes… Read More »Updated report: The COVID-19 Long-Term Care situation in Malaysia
Jayeeta Rajagopalan, Saadiya Hurzuk, Faheem Arshad, Premkumar Raja and Suvarna Alladi Key findings: While there are a large number of elderly people with comorbidities in… Read More »New country report: The COVID-19 Long-Term Care situation in India
John Black (Northern Ireland Co-operation Overseas, NI-CO, Jordan) Key actions taken to limit the spread of COVID – 19 in Jordan So far, there have… Read More »New country report: The COVID-19 Long-Term Care situation in Jordan
COVID Trauma Response Working Group There has been increasing recognition of the contribution that social care staff are making to the COVID-19 response. Importantly, this… Read More »How has COVID-19 affected UK care staff? Invitation to participate in a survey to understand care staff experiences and support needs
David Bell, University of Stirling Delayed discharges occur when a hospital patient considered well enough to return to the wider community continues to occupy a… Read More »Delayed Hospital Discharges in Scotland: What Happened in March 2020?
PREPRINT (not yet peer reviewed): SARS-CoV-2 infection, clinical features and outcome of COVID-19 in United Kingdom nursing homesNeil SN Graham, Cornelia Junghans, Rawlda Downes, Catherine Sendall, Helen Lai, Annie McKirdy, Paul Elliott, Robert Howard, David Wingfield, Miles Priestman, Marta Ciechonska, Loren Cameron, Marko Storch, Michael Crone, Paul Freemont, Paul Randell, Robert McLaren, Nicola Lang, Shamez Ladhani, Frances Sanderson, David J SharpmedRxiv 2020.05.19.20105460; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.19.20105460 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.19.20105460v1 They study: Aim: to… Read More »Emerging evidence summary: SARS-CoV-2 infection, clinical features and outcome of COVID-19 in United Kingdom nursing homes (preprint)
Florien Kruse, Inger Abma, Patrick Jeurissen (Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands). When we wrote our first report on the impact of COVID-19 on the… Read More »Updated report: the impact of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care in the Netherlands
