A public health agency official has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry that visiting in care homes during the pandemic was about "managing risk". Heather Reid, the interim director of Nursing, Midwifery and ...

Holocaust survivor Edith Frankie became one of the Los Angeles Jewish Home’s first residents to be vaccinated for COVID-19 on Dec. 30, 2020. (Photo courtesy Los Angeles Jewish Home) For much of ...

There was no scientific advice to test discharged patients at Covid's start, an ex-minister says.

Nursing homes that allowed visitors during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic did not see higher infection rates, even during one of its most dangerous phases, academic researchers conclude in a ...

With no coronavirus vaccine available and testing hard to get, long-term care homes need to focus on staying clear of the virus, said Dr. Swati Gaur, a Gainesville geriatrician who helped write ...

The spread of COVID-19 has added pressure to the home health care industry, ... 'We want to live': At-risk adults, home health care workers fear coronavirus. Marisa Kwiatkowski Tricia L. Nadolny.

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on older people in care homes across Canada. Yet serious concerns remain for a different kind of epidemic that may continue throughout the rollout of vaccines ...

Nursing homes risk another wave of covid deaths as vaccinations lag White House urges long-term-care operators to speed up new booster shots for residents December 21, 2022 More than 2 years ago ...

Risk of COVID now greatly diminished, but still there. Once considered the epicenter of the pandemic, nursing homes house some of the people most vulnerable to COVID-19: those who tend to be older ...

Early in the pandemic, more than 80% of the state’s COVID-19 deaths were among care-home residents — the highest of any state, according to analysis by the Foundation for Research on Equal ...

For much of last year, the Los Angeles Jewish Home had relatively few COVID-19 cases, evading the pandemic’s hefty toll on long-term care residents in Southern California.