ArticleJournal of the American Medical Directors Association2020
Long-Term Care, Residential Facilities, and COVID-19: An Overview of Federal and State Policy Responses.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Changes in Federal and State Policies on Visitation Restrictions in Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025Pooled it
- Understanding factors influencing personal care workers' intentions to stay: A systematic integrative review.Australasian journal on ageing · 2025Pooled it
- Governance of Assisted Living in Long-Term Care: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Depressive and Behavioral Symptoms in US Nursing Home Residents.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2026Article
- Expectations regarding transitioning into long-term care, social connectedness, and mental health of older adults.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Observational
- A Mixed-Methods Study of End-of-Life Care in Assisted Living During the COVID-19 Pandemic: National Survey of Administrators and In-Depth Interviews With Bereaved Next of Kin.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026Article
- Lifting Federal Visitation Restriction and COVID-19 Infections in Nursing Homes.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025Article
- The role of vaccination, testing, and public restriction policies in COVID-19 mortality and incidence: insights from Global Burden of Disease regions.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2025Article
- Examining self-described policy-relevant evidence base for policymaking: an evidence map of COVID-19 literature.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- COVID-19 in Nursing Homes-Learning the Hard Way.JAMA internal medicine · 2024Article
- State- and Territory-Level Nursing Home and Home Health Care COVID-19 Policies and Disease Burden.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Perceived dilemma between protective measures and social isolation in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study among Swiss nursing home directors.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- "We Did More Damage": How COVID-19 Collapsed the Care Convoys of Residents Living With Dementia.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023Article
- Examining the Global Nursing Regulatory Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of nursing regulation · 2023Article
- Characteristics of telemedicine workflows in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC health services research · 2023Article
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- Identifying performance factors of long-term care facilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2022Article
- There and back again: the shape of telemedicine in U.S. nursing homes following COVID-19.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Social Distancing and Isolation Strategies to Prevent and Control the Transmission of COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases in Care Homes for Older People: An International Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Using Voice and Touchscreen Controlled Smart Speakers to Protect Vulnerable Clients in Long-Term Care Facilities.Innovation in aging · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected residents and staff at long-term care (LTC) and other residential facilities in the United States. The high morbidity and mortality at these facilities has been attributed to a combination of a particularly vulnerable population and a lack of resources to mitigate the risk. During the first wave of the pandemic, the federal and state governments received urgent calls for help from LTC and residential care facilities; between March and early June of 2020, policymakers responded with dozens of regulatory and policy changes. In this article, we provide an overview of these responses by first summarizing federal regulatory changes and then reviewing state-level executive orders. The policy and regulatory changes implemented at the federal and state levels can be categorized into the following 4 classes: (1) preventing virus transmission, which includes policies relating to visitation restrictions, personal protective equipment guidance, and testing requirements; (2) expanding facilities' capacities, which includes both the expansion of physical space for isolation purposes and the expansion of workforce to combat COVID-19; (3) relaxing administrative requirements, which includes measures enacted to shift the attention of caretakers and administrators from administrative requirements to residents' care; and (4) reporting COVID-19 data, which includes the reporting of cases and deaths to residents, families, and administrative bodies (such as state health departments). These policies represent a snapshot of the initial efforts to mitigate damage inflicted by the pandemic. Looking ahead, empirical evaluation of the consequences of these policies-including potential unintended effects-is urgently needed. The recent availability of publicly reported COVID-19 LTC data can be used to inform the development of evidence-based regulations, though there are concerns of reporting inaccuracies. Importantly, these data should also be used to systematically identify hot spots and help direct resources to struggling facilities.
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