WHO Policy Brief: Preventing and Managing COVID-19 Across Long-term Care Services
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a policy brief, "Preventing and Managing COVID-19 Across Long-term Care Services."
The policy brief provides 11 policy objectives and key action points to prevent and manage COVID-19 across long-term care. Its intended audience is policy-makers and authorities (national, subnational and local) involved in the COVID-19 pandemic. The brief builds on currently available evidence on the measures taken to prevent, prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and to mitigate impact across long-term care services, including care providers.
Long-standing problems in long-term care systems are addressed along with ways to transform health and long-term care services so that long-term care services are readily integrated and provided as part of the continuum of care that includes health promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation.
The policy brief was written by a collaboration of WHO and non-WHO experts on long term care. Terry Fulmer, RN, PhD, FAAN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation, was one of the contributor/reviewers.
To go to the brief, click here.