procedures orcurrent conditions inside nursing homes. There has been no clarity as to why without a hospital surge, COVID-19 patients would be transferred to recover at a nursing home.
Two weeks ago the Globe reported on former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the hot-seat for ordering Covid patients into nursing homes. California Gov. Gavin Newsom did the same – as the Globereportedin 2020 and 2021, “Several U.S. Governors ordered COVID-19 patients into nursing homes ...
This essay details the author's experiences as a medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Richmond, Virginia, the first nursing home to have a COVID-19 outbreak in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It explores how the deaths of his patients challenged his faith...
Nursing homes were an early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Older people with dementia were especially susceptible to contracting the virus and dying from it due to comorbidities, difficulties adhering to infection control protocols, disruptions in care and isolation from family members and caregiv...
On the cognitive test, patients showed arapid declineimmediately after COVID infection, and stayed far below the uninfected group for months—though both groups had about the same cognitive results by the end of a year. The researchers note that the measures taken to protect nursing home residen...
Nursing homes have become the invisible center of Sars-Cov-2 transmission. The virus is known to attack aging patients with compromised immune systems. The healthcare workers caring for nursing home patients have been stretched thin. There was a noticeable 21% drop due to a lack of Personal ...
In Sweden, around 82,000 people aged 65 and above live in nursing homes which corresponds to 0.8% of the total population. Swedish nursing homes are expected to deliver end-of-life care for those elderly patients who do not have complex palliative care needs. The quality of end-of-life ...
“We’ve had hundreds of patients, with a number of patients coming from nursing homes and in their 90s,” though there appeared to be few severe cases, one nurse at a Beijing hospital, who asked to remain anonymous, told AFP. The nurse, who had recently caught COVID him...
Objectives To describe the clinical characteristics, 30-day mortality and associated factors of patients living in nursing homes (NH) with COVID-19, from 20th March to 1st June, 2020. Design This is a retrospective study. A Geriatric Hospital-based Team acted as a consultant and coordinated ...
(HealthDay)—Aides in long-term care facilities are less likely than other staff to be vaccinated, even though they have the most contact with vulnerable patients and could infect them with COVID-19, a new federal study shows. Ad Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...