From the Health Service Executive (Ireland), guidance for health and social care workers who visit homes (home care): https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/guidance/infectionpreventionandcontrolguidance/V1.0-Guidance-HealthSocialCareWorkersWhoVisitHomes.pdf
Recomendaciones para organizar un voluntariado vecinal seguro, en el contexto de Covid-19, de la Agencia Navarra de Autonomía y Dependencia de las Personas, del Departamento… Read More »Recomendaciones para un voluntariado vecinal seguro (Agencia Navarra de Autonomía y Dependencia de las Personas, del Departamento de Derechos Sociales, Spain)
Guidance aimed at local authorities, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and registered providers, who support and deliver care to people in their own homes, including community… Read More »COVID-19: guidance on home care provision (Department of Health and Social Care, UK)
Guidance setting out key messages to support planning and preparation in the event of an outbreak or widespread transmission of COVID-19 in supported living settings:… Read More »COVID-19: guidance for supported living provision (Department of Health and Social Care, UK)
Guidance from the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care on residential care provision: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-residential-care-supported-living-and-home-care-guidance/covid-19-guidance-on-residential-care-provision
The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care has issued an ethical framework to support the decisions of local authorities and the wider health and… Read More »Responding to COVID-19: the ethical framework for adult social care, guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care (UK)
Help Age International has published a document to provide guidance and advice about COVID-19 for care homes: “While older people in care homes are particularly… Read More »Guidance and advice for care homes about coronavirus (COVID-19) by Help Age International
The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), an international NGO focusing on hospice and palliative care development worldwide has a page with resources for those… Read More »Resources of the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance
The Inter-Agency standing Committee (the highest-level humanitarian coordination forum of the United Nations System) has published an Interim Briefing note on: Addressing Mental Health and… Read More »The Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Briefing note on: Addressing Mental Health and Psychosocial Aspects of COVID-19
With thanks to a tweet by @IAHPC: Article on the response and role of palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national telephone survey of… Read More »Palliative and Hospice care during COVID-19: a telephone survey of hospices in Italy
