Healthcare Quarterly Special Issue: Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness in Long-Term Care
The Healthcare Quarterly Special Issue: Strengthening Pandemic Preparedness in Long-Term Care explores practices to strengthen pandemic preparedness in long-term care. It features insights from 22 research teams that partnered with 91 long-term care and retirement homes, residents, families and essential care partners through the Implementation Science Teams initiative.
The articles in this issue highlight the importance of:
- person-centred approaches to care
- meaningfully engaging essential care partners
- maintaining clear, consistent and reciprocal communication between residents, family members, essential care partners and staff
- supporting long-term care workers
- conducting research in partnership with long-term care homes, residents and essential care partners to support the implementation of evidence-informed interventions and contribute to better care, quality of life, and health outcomes
This special issue was supported by Healthcare Excellence Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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