McKnight's December 3, 2021
A new survey offers plenty of ideas for getting long-term care providers on the same page as family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic, investigators say.
Investigators surveyed family caregivers of long-stay residents with dementia living in LTC facilities between June 2020 and June 2021. The open-ended surveys included 125 caregivers supplemented with interviews with 20 of those participants.
Family caregivers expressed concerns about COVID-19 infection. They also reported key challenges, such as:
- Difficulty maintaining contact with relatives because of visiting restrictions;
- A lack of information about relatives’ health and well-being;
- Worries about overburdened LTC staff;
- The impossibility of returning relatives home from the LTC facility;
- And fears about relatives dying alone.
They also identified the resources,...
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