By Kayla Wong, Terry Lum and Gloria Wong (HKU), 27th March In Hong Kong, because of the experience with the SARS epidemic in 2003, the… Read More »Report from Hong Kong: Long-Term Care Responses to COVID-19 by Increased Use of Information and Communication Technology
As reported in a previous post about the situation in care homes in Madrid, triage protocols used by hospitals mean that care home staff find… Read More »When the ambulances don’t turn up: implications of the COVID-19 hospital triage protocols for nursing homes in Madrid
By Klara Lorenz-Dant, CPEC The high risk of infection to people living in care and nursing homes has been recognised and different bodies across Germany… Read More »Report: preventing and managing COVID-19 infections in care and nursing homes, examples from Germany
By Jae Yeon Lyu, research assistant at CPEC-LSE Preventing the spread of COVID-19 in residential care settings: To guarantee that self-isolation works in residential settings,… Read More »Report: The South Korean approach to managing COVID-19 outbreaks in residential care settings and to maintaining community-based care services
By Fernando Fantova The COVID-19 emergency is characterized by its novel and vertiginous nature. It is an unprecedented situation in which everything is changing incredibly… Read More »Responding to COVID-19 in Spain: Returning from care homes to live with families as an alternative?
Report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (US) on the consequences of the introduction of COVID-19 into a long-term residential care facility in… Read More »Report on a COVID-19 outbreak within a residential care home in Washington: implications for public health practice (CDC, US)
