COVID-19 pandemicIn Hong Kong, about 15% of older people (aged 80 and above) live in care homes, one of the highest proportions in the world. During the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003, the crude fatality rate for older people in care homes ...
Care homes have been very badly hit by the covid-19 pandemic. This has highlighted their historical neglect and marginalisation and has belatedly brought them into the spotlight. We should not forget the lessons. By mid-April, the government was being criticised for reporting only in-hospital ...
摘要原文 Care homes have been very badly hit by the covid-19 pandemic. This has highlighted their historical neglect and marginalisation and has belatedly brought them into the spotlight. We should not forget the lessons.By mid-April, the government was being criticised for reporting only in-...
Exploring the Relationship between Care Homes and Excess Deaths in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Italydoi:10.2139/ssrn.3654929We explore the relationship between the spatial distributions of excess deaths and care home facilities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-baAlacev...
The novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 needs no introduction. By now, all of America has moved to social distancing and most of us are running our home care agencies from home. I'm sure that by now you've received emails from the CEOs of every company, health institution and academic ...
A Scottish government spokesperson said: "We are undertaking advanced outbreak investigation at care homes reporting cases of COVID-19. "If cases are reported, all residents and staff will be tested, regardless of symptoms. "We are also testing in linked institutions where care ...
Oliver rightly reports that care homes are in trouble.1 Covid-19 has laid bare weaknesses of support from the NHS, public health, regulators, and local government, showing once more that care homes and their residents don't fit traditional healthcare or social care paradigms. DOI: 10.1136/bmj...
TORONTO, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The Canadian government has urged long-term care homes to control COVID-19, as nearly half of the country's coronavirus deaths are linked to them. "Of the cases where we have the data on whether someone was in a long-term care facility or seniors' reside...
She said: "The experiences of care home staff should serve to focus the evidence-based response to the pandemic in care homes. "We want to see care home providers and staff given timely, responsive and unambiguous guidance as they learn to live with and manage COVID-19." ...
(UCL Institute of Health Informatics), leader of the Vivaldi study looking at COVID-19 in care homes, said: "In our study the nucleocapsid-specific antibody disappears within a year and the wide use of tests targeting these antibodies to see if people have had COVID-19 before could ...