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Engagement in Assisted Living During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Promising Practices.

The “lockdown” in assisted living (AL) from the COVID-19 pandemic has physically isolated residents from the outside world and affected resident and family engagement in care. This presentation outlines a content analysis of qualitative semi-structured telephone interviews conducted from April 2020...

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Autores principales: Bartoldus, Victoria, Cho, Youngmin, Perez, Janelle, Wang, Jing, Palmertree, Stephanie, Beeber, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8970262/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1334
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Cho, Youngmin
Perez, Janelle
Wang, Jing
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description The “lockdown” in assisted living (AL) from the COVID-19 pandemic has physically isolated residents from the outside world and affected resident and family engagement in care. This presentation outlines a content analysis of qualitative semi-structured telephone interviews conducted from April 2020 with 105 AL staff, residents, and family members exploring COVID-19 experience/restrictions and engagement during the pandemic. Analysis revealed AL families and residents expressed difficulties with COVID-19 visiting and distancing restrictions, reduced family visitations, discontinuity of care, and worries about COVID-19 infection. Staff/administrators expressed uncertainty about lack of knowledge about COVID-19, worries about transmission, and if staff will get exposed outside of work. Promising factors include enhanced communication between staff and families regarding care, improved virtual communication, creative strategies to socially engage residents, and improved infection control practices and staff training. The presentation discusses the implications of the findings for future research, policy, and practice.
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spelling pubmed-89702622022-04-01 Engagement in Assisted Living During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Promising Practices. Bartoldus, Victoria Cho, Youngmin Perez, Janelle Wang, Jing Palmertree, Stephanie Beeber, Anna Innov Aging Abstracts The “lockdown” in assisted living (AL) from the COVID-19 pandemic has physically isolated residents from the outside world and affected resident and family engagement in care. This presentation outlines a content analysis of qualitative semi-structured telephone interviews conducted from April 2020 with 105 AL staff, residents, and family members exploring COVID-19 experience/restrictions and engagement during the pandemic. Analysis revealed AL families and residents expressed difficulties with COVID-19 visiting and distancing restrictions, reduced family visitations, discontinuity of care, and worries about COVID-19 infection. Staff/administrators expressed uncertainty about lack of knowledge about COVID-19, worries about transmission, and if staff will get exposed outside of work. Promising factors include enhanced communication between staff and families regarding care, improved virtual communication, creative strategies to socially engage residents, and improved infection control practices and staff training. The presentation discusses the implications of the findings for future research, policy, and practice. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8970262/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1334 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1334
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