Fighting the COVID-19 nursing home crisis: The untold story of the nursing assistants
J Am Geriatr Soc
.
2022 Feb;70(2):379-383.
doi: 10.1111/jgs.17515.
Epub 2021 Oct 22.
Authors
Beth Scheffler
1
,
Karen Petruccelli
2
,
Amy W Baughman
3
4
,
Mark Yurkofsky
4
5
,
Lewis A Lipsitz
4
6
7
,
Rossana Lau-Ng
8
9
Affiliations
1
Performance Based Selection, Ltd, Westlake, Ohio, USA.
2
Clinical Services, Legacy Lifecare, Peabody, Massachusetts, USA.
3
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
4
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
5
Spaulding Nursing and Therapy Center, Brighton, Massachusetts, USA.
6
Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
7
Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
8
Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
9
Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
PMID:
34636029
PMCID:
PMC8656627
DOI:
10.1111/jgs.17515
No abstract available
MeSH terms
COVID-19*
Humans
Nursing Assistants / statistics & numerical data*
Nursing Assistants / supply & distribution
Nursing Homes*
Personal Protective Equipment / supply & distribution*
Social Isolation*
United States