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Restoring trust: COVID-19 and the future of long-term care in Canada
Facets, 2020 The Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19 was formed in April 2020 to provide evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery from COVID-19. The Task Force established a series of working groups to rapidly
C. Estabrooks +9 more
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A Decade of Lessons Learned from Integration Strategies in the Netherlands
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2021 Introduction: In the Netherlands multiple single, cross sector and cross governance level policy reforms were introduced to improve health and social care and decrease fragmentation.
Henk Nies +3 more
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Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2020 Residents in long-term care facilities (LTCF) are a vulnerable population group. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths in LTCF residents represent 30–60% of all COVID-19 deaths in many European countries.
K. Danis +35 more
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Geospatial panorama of long-term care facilities in Brazil: a portrait of territorial inequalities
Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2022 OBJECTIVES: To map the number and geospatial distribution of Brazilian long-term care facilities (LTCFs) for older adults. Additionally, we sought to highlight the relationship between these findings and the number of older people in the country's 27 ...
Tatiana Teixeira Barral de Lacerda +9 more
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Nursing Open, 2022 Aim To examine the response of long‐term care (LTC) residential facilities to the COVID‐19 pandemic worldwide, and the antecedents and outcomes of this response. Design A protocol of a cross‐sectional survey.
Sameh Eltaybani +5 more
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BioMed Research International, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic had a great negative impact on nursing homes, with massive outbreaks being reported in care facilities all over the world, affecting not only the residents but also the care workers and visitors.
Dana-Claudia Thompson +6 more
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Ethics and aging: focus on living will for patients with dementia
Geriatric Care, 2017 Today dementia certainly represents a public health priority with a huge global impact on wordwide population. However, clinical and social issues related to dementia have long been marginalized.
Alberto Sardella +5 more
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Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2009 BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common chronic disorder that often requires lifelong care. Available practice parameters provide evidence-based recommendations for addressing aspects of care. OBJECTIVE This guideline is designed to assist
L. Epstein +10 more
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Long-Term Care System in Japan
Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research, 2020 The long-term care insurance (LTCI) system was introduced in Japan in 2000 to address the demands of older persons with disabilities based on the concept of a user-oriented social insurance system with support for independence.
M. Yamada, H. Arai
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COVID-19 in long-term care homes in Ontario and British Columbia
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2020 KEY POINTS People living in long-term care (LTC) homes in Canada have been far more likely to die of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) than the rest of the population.[1][1] However, the effect of COVID-19 on residents in LTC has varied across ...
Michael Liu +7 more
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