McKnight's April 12, 2024
The quality of life tradeoffs incurred due to tight safety protocols and isolation of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic demand more research and policy changes.
This is especially true for residents with cognitive impairments like dementia, added Kathleen Unroe, MD, a Regenstrief Institute research scientist, in a new editorial in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
“I think that we all want so badly just to move past the pandemic and put it out of our minds. And yet, I think we have to take the time to reflect on that experience to try to get to what we have learned about where the balance is,” she told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Thursday.
Unroe emphasized that...
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