Social connections are important for the health and wellbeing of people living in long-term care (LTC) homes. The purpose of this report is to provide strategies, identified from published research and illustrated with stakeholder input (including a provincial survey), that can help to build and maintain social connections in LTC residents. These strategies can be used by LTC home staff, families and residents anytime, but the examples are given to highlight ways they might be adapted in the current context of COVID-19 or to help plan for other infectious disease outbreaks.
Strategies for building and maintaining social connection for long-term care home residents: Considerations for Covid-19. Toronto, The KITE Research Institute, 2020, 13 p.
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