Hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) provides regular calls/webinars related to public health emergencies, and… Read More »Webinar: COVID-19 Information for Long-term Care Facilities (COCA, CDC, United States)
By Miguel Ángel Manzano, independent researcher and editor of the blog Llei d’Engel There is growing evidence that COVID19 is having an enormous impact on… Read More »Report: COVID19 and long-term care in Spain: impact, underlying problems and initial measures
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
With thanks to Andrea Maria Slachevsky As a printable leaflet:
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)
By Annette Bauer, CPEC LSE Palliative care has an important role to play in the response to Covid-19, in order to ensure that people who… Read More »COVID19: Providing palliative care for the many
The European Social Network supports the design and delivery of social service across Europe. They are hosting a webinar titled “Webinar: ‘Ensuring continuity of care… Read More »Webinar: ‘Ensuring continuity of care in times of crisis’ on 1 April 2020 (European Social Network)
The BBC provides a brief overview of how people with dementia and their carers deal with self-isolation. Respondents have reported to have reduced the frequency… Read More »Experience of self-isolation by people with dementia and their carers (BBC, 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
By Klara Lorenz-Dant (CPEC LSE) In an earlier post we described how the Ministry for Health and the health authority in Lower Saxony focused on… Read More »Report: Responses to COVID-19 infection in a care home for people with dementia in Germany
