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- Karen Spilsbury
- Reena Devi
- Alys Griffiths
- Anita Astle
- Claire Goodman
- Adam L Gordon
- Barbara Hanratty
- Peter Hodkinson
- Fiona Marshall
- Julienne Meyer
- Carl Thompson
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Original language | English |
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Article number | afaa201 |
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Journal | Age and Ageing |
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Early online date | 15 Sep 2020 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 15 Sep 2020 |
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Abstract
The care and support of older people residing in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic has created new and unanticipated uncertainties for staff. In this short report, we present our analyses of the uncertainties of care home managers and staff expressed in a self-formed closed WhatsApp™ discussion group during the first stages of the pandemic in the UK. We categorised their wide-ranging questions to understand what information would address these uncertainties and provide support. We have been able to demonstrate that almost one-third of these uncertainties could have been tackled immediately through timely, responsive and unambiguous fact-based guidance. The other uncertainties require appraisal, synthesis and summary of existing evidence, commissioning or provision of a sector- informed research agenda for the medium- to longer-term. The questions represent wider internationally relevant care home pandemic related uncertainties.
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© 2020 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Age and Ageing following peer review. The version of record [Age and Ageing, afaa201, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa201] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa201.
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