Safe Visiting at Care Homes During COVID-19: a Review of International Guidelines and Emerging Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Leefay Low; Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith; Samir K. Sinha; Nathan M. Stall; Hilde Verbeek; Joyce Siette; Briony Dow; Ramona Backhaus; Karen Spilsbury; Jayne Brown; Alys Griffiths; Christian Bergman; Adelina Comas-Herrera

Safe Visiting at Care Homes During COVID-19: a Review of International Guidelines and Emerging Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Leefay Low
, Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith
, Samir K. Sinha
, Nathan M. Stall
, Hilde Verbeek
, Joyce Siette
, Briony Dow
, Ramona Backhaus
, Karen Spilsbury
, Jayne Brown
, Alys Griffiths
, Christian Bergman
, Adelina Comas-Herrera

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	LTC Covid
Number of pages	22
Publication status	Published - 2021

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© 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/.

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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Safe Visiting at Care Homes During COVID-19: a Review of International Guidelines and Emerging Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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