ReviewHealthcare policy = Politiques de sante2022
Rights versus Risks: The Impact of Isolation on Residents and Families in Long-Term Care.
Review in Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Duty to Protect? The Troubling Pattern of Legislative Noncompliance and Missed Police Involvement in Ontario's Long-Term Care Sector.Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2026Article
- Trust as a key measure of quality and safety after the restriction of family contact in Canadian long-term care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Review
- Self-isolation of an Italian long-term care facility during COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison study on care-related infectious episodes.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2023Article
- COVID-19 and Long-Term Care: What Have We Learned?Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2022Article
- Perspectives from the Netherlands: Responses from, Strategies of and Challenges for Long-Term Care Health Personnel.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ontario government created directives for long-term care (LTC) homes. As a result, residents were isolated in their rooms and visitors were banned. This commentary examines these practices and their impact on LTC residents and their families. A review of relevant documents showed the practices were unnecessary and physically and psychologically detrimental. Moving forward, family should be recognized as essential members of residents' care teams and allowed in LTC homes during outbreaks. This would entail providing them with the necessary protective equipment and adequate training to ensure infection prevention protocols are maintained.
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