Safe visiting is essential for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic : an international perspective

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

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2021.02.020

Safe visiting is essential for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic : an international perspective

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

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Abstract

Blanket and total bans of nursing home visitors were wide- spread at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when governments and homes were unprepared to prevent and manage outbreaks. However, these visitor restrictions have been prolonged and often reinstated after having been lifted, despite increased home and health system COVID-19 readiness and mounting evidence of harms to residents. Further, in most nursing homes, visitor bans were introduced without discussion or consent from residents or their advocates, constituting a violation of the resident's rights to have visitors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	977-978
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Volume	22
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.02.020
Publication status	Published - May 2021

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Low, L.-F., Hinsliff-Smith, K., Sinha, S. K., Stall, N. M., Verbeek, H., Siette, J., Dow, B., Backhaus, R., Devi, R., Spilsbury, K., Brown, J., Griffiths, A., Bergman, C., & Comas-Herrera, A. (2021). Safe visiting is essential for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic : an international perspective. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 22(5), 977-978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.02.020

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Safe visiting is essential for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic : an international perspective

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