Importance of infection control and continence management plans in assisted living communities during the COVID-19 pandemic

A robust and comprehensive infection control plan in a senior living community is a must. Delirium manifestations of Covid-19 and or Urinary Tract Infections, may be confused or misdiagnosed with dementia symptoms in memory care residents. A robust incontinence care program is a key pillar of infect...

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Autores principales: Sayabalian, Ara, Easton-Garrett, Sheri, Kassabian, Armen, Kunze, Margo B., Bruce, Melissa Carolyn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7834464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33360318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2020.12.003
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author Sayabalian, Ara
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description A robust and comprehensive infection control plan in a senior living community is a must. Delirium manifestations of Covid-19 and or Urinary Tract Infections, may be confused or misdiagnosed with dementia symptoms in memory care residents. A robust incontinence care program is a key pillar of infection control to reduce symptoms causing hospitalization. Misdiagnosis, transfer infections, acute treatment dementia challenges, worsening incontinence are all risks of residents being hospitalized. A comprehensive incontinence assessment, plan, and education program are all paramount to seeing a reduction in hospitalizations and misdiagnosis of Covid-19 and other symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-78344642021-01-26 Importance of infection control and continence management plans in assisted living communities during the COVID-19 pandemic Sayabalian, Ara Easton-Garrett, Sheri Kassabian, Armen Kunze, Margo B. Bruce, Melissa Carolyn Geriatr Nurs AALNA Section A robust and comprehensive infection control plan in a senior living community is a must. Delirium manifestations of Covid-19 and or Urinary Tract Infections, may be confused or misdiagnosed with dementia symptoms in memory care residents. A robust incontinence care program is a key pillar of infection control to reduce symptoms causing hospitalization. Misdiagnosis, transfer infections, acute treatment dementia challenges, worsening incontinence are all risks of residents being hospitalized. A comprehensive incontinence assessment, plan, and education program are all paramount to seeing a reduction in hospitalizations and misdiagnosis of Covid-19 and other symptoms. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021 2020-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7834464/ /pubmed/33360318 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2020.12.003 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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