This webinar, recorded on the 1st of February 2021, explored experiences on safe visiting in care homes during COVID-19 in Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, the… Read More »Video and slides of the LTCcovid webinar on International guidelines and emerging practices for safe visiting at care homes during COVID-19
This webinar will explore experiences on safe visiting in care homes during COVID-19 in Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, the UK and USA, and will present… Read More »Save the date for the next LTCcovid webinar: International guidelines and emerging practices for safe visiting at care homes during COVID-19, 1st February 1pm GMT
In person contact with family and other visitors are extremely important to people living in care homes. In many countries visits to care homes have… Read More »National and regional guidance relating to allowing family and other visitors back into care homes
Reopening care homes – Lee-Fay Low, University of Sidney, Australia 0:01:35 Dr Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith, De Montfort University, UK 21:08 Allowing visitors back in nursing homes,… Read More »Video and slides from the 6th of July LTCcovid webinar: Re-opening care homes to family and other visitors
Speakers Lee-Fay Low, University of Sydney, Australia Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith, De Monfort University, UK Hilde Verbeek, Department of Health Services Research, Maastricht University, Netherlands Q&A Further… Read More »Next webinar: Re-opening care homes to family and other visitors, 6th July, 2pm GMT
Recreational therapists are helping residents stay connected at St. Joseph’s Lifecare Centre and Dundas’s St. Joseph’s Villa in Ontario, Canada. They are getting creative with ways… Read More »Maintaining connection through visiting restrictions in long term care facilities (St. Joseph’s Health System, Canada)
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)
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)
