TY - BOOK
T1 - Safe Visiting at Care Homes During COVID-19: a Review of International Guidelines and Emerging Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Low, Leefay
AU - Hinsliff-Smith, Kathryn
AU - Sinha, Samir K.
AU - Stall, Nathan M.
AU - Verbeek, Hilde
AU - Siette, Joyce
AU - Dow, Briony
AU - Backhaus, Ramona
AU - Spilsbury, Karen
AU - Brown, Jayne
AU - Griffiths, Alys
AU - Bergman, Christian
AU - Comas-Herrera, Adelina
N1 - © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access document distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported International License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This document seeks to produce evidence-based recommendations to inform care homes and government policies on visiting in care homes during this and future pandemics. It includes a narrative review of international policy and practices relating to visitors to care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of restrictions on residents, caregivers and staff, as well as illustrative case studies. At time of writing, ten months into the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries are experiencing increases in infections termed ‘second waves’ and ‘third waves’, care homes continue to have COVID-19 outbreaks and visitor bans have been re-instated in some regions. Care home residents and staff are being prioritised for COVID-19 vaccination, however, reducing risk of COVID-19 infection for residents will continue to be an important public health issue.
AB - This document seeks to produce evidence-based recommendations to inform care homes and government policies on visiting in care homes during this and future pandemics. It includes a narrative review of international policy and practices relating to visitors to care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of restrictions on residents, caregivers and staff, as well as illustrative case studies. At time of writing, ten months into the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries are experiencing increases in infections termed ‘second waves’ and ‘third waves’, care homes continue to have COVID-19 outbreaks and visitor bans have been re-instated in some regions. Care home residents and staff are being prioritised for COVID-19 vaccination, however, reducing risk of COVID-19 infection for residents will continue to be an important public health issue.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:74415
UR - https://ltccovid.org/2021/01/19/safe-visiting-at-care-homes-during-covid-19-a-review-of-international-guidelines-and-emerging-practices-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
M3 - Research report
BT - Safe Visiting at Care Homes During COVID-19: a Review of International Guidelines and Emerging Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic
PB - LTC Covid
CY - U.K.
ER -