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Care home managers' views on the media coverage of COVID‐19 outbreaks in care homes for older adults: A case study in Stockholm

The COVID‐19 pandemic has particularly affected older adults and resulted in high rates of infections and deaths in care homes. We have conducted a case study in which three managers of care homes for older adults in central Stockholm have shared their thoughts on the media coverage of care homes fo...

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Autores principales: Morath, Lenke P., Burström, Bo, Liljas, Ann E. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9350000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35699305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/opn.12483
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description The COVID‐19 pandemic has particularly affected older adults and resulted in high rates of infections and deaths in care homes. We have conducted a case study in which three managers of care homes for older adults in central Stockholm have shared their thoughts on the media coverage of care homes for older adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We analysed the data using conventional content analysis and identified three themes and five categories. The results show that the managers experienced the media coverage of care homes during the pandemic to be negative and incomplete, causing feelings of sadness and shame amongst themselves and their staff. The negative media coverage further generated added workload as they had to arrange for discussions to answer questions by staff and close relatives of the residents. Informants also thought that there is a lack of knowledge about the role of care homes and subsequently what to expect of them. Finally, informants reported that the pandemic might create an opportunity for system‐level policy changes. In light of this, we discuss possible victim blaming of staff and how greater public awareness of the care home sector could facilitate for a debate on policy changes and the low social status of caring for older adults.
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spelling pubmed-93500002022-08-04 Care home managers' views on the media coverage of COVID‐19 outbreaks in care homes for older adults: A case study in Stockholm Morath, Lenke P. Burström, Bo Liljas, Ann E. M. Int J Older People Nurs Commentary The COVID‐19 pandemic has particularly affected older adults and resulted in high rates of infections and deaths in care homes. We have conducted a case study in which three managers of care homes for older adults in central Stockholm have shared their thoughts on the media coverage of care homes for older adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We analysed the data using conventional content analysis and identified three themes and five categories. The results show that the managers experienced the media coverage of care homes during the pandemic to be negative and incomplete, causing feelings of sadness and shame amongst themselves and their staff. The negative media coverage further generated added workload as they had to arrange for discussions to answer questions by staff and close relatives of the residents. Informants also thought that there is a lack of knowledge about the role of care homes and subsequently what to expect of them. Finally, informants reported that the pandemic might create an opportunity for system‐level policy changes. In light of this, we discuss possible victim blaming of staff and how greater public awareness of the care home sector could facilitate for a debate on policy changes and the low social status of caring for older adults. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9350000/ /pubmed/35699305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/opn.12483 Text en © 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Older People Nursing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Care home managers' views on the media coverage of COVID‐19 outbreaks in care homes for older adults: A case study in Stockholm
title Care home managers' views on the media coverage of COVID‐19 outbreaks in care homes for older adults: A case study in Stockholm
title_full Care home managers' views on the media coverage of COVID‐19 outbreaks in care homes for older adults: A case study in Stockholm
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title_full_unstemmed Care home managers' views on the media coverage of COVID‐19 outbreaks in care homes for older adults: A case study in Stockholm
title_short Care home managers' views on the media coverage of COVID‐19 outbreaks in care homes for older adults: A case study in Stockholm
title_sort care home managers' views on the media coverage of covid‐19 outbreaks in care homes for older adults: a case study in stockholm
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9350000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35699305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/opn.12483
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