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 Florien Kruse & Toine Remers, Radboud University Medical Center. Background The first Dutch COVID-19 case was detected on 27th February in Noord-Brabant (a province… Read More »Report: Nursing homes and COVID-19, policy responses in the Netherlands
By Adelina Comas-Herrera, CPEC Following the news that the Spanish army was deployed to overwhelmed nursing homes to find that residents had been abandoned and… Read More »More nursing homes in Spain overwhelmed by COVID-19
By Courtney H. Van Houtven and Nathan Boucher As COVID-19spreads in the U.S., the long-term services and supports (LTSS or LTC) system is grappling with… Read More »Report from the U.S.: the COVID-19 epidemic’s arrival reveals safety net gaps and deficiencies that will harm long-term care workers, carers, and their care recipients
The Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health (an academic research center which aims to identify cost-effective policies that improve the health of people… Read More »COVID-19: Call for policy action to protect people with disability (CRE-DH, Australia)
