Vellani, S, Zuniga, F, Spilsbury, K orcid.org/0000-0002-6908-0032 et al. (8 more authors) (2022) Who’s in the House? Staffing in Long-Term Care Homes before & during COVID -19 Pandemic. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 8. ISSN 2333-7214
Abstract
Critical gaps exist in our knowledge on how best to provide quality person-centered care to long-term care (LTC) home residents which is closely tied to not knowing what the ideal staff is complement in the home. A survey was created on staffing in LTC homes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic to determine how the staff complement changed. Perspectives were garnered from researchers, clinicians, and policy experts in eight countries and the data provides a first approximation of staffing before and during the pandemic. Five broad categories of staff working in LTC homes were as follows: (1) those responsible for personal and support care, (2) nursing care, (3) medical care, (4) rehabilitation and recreational care, and (5) others. There is limited availability of data related to measuring staff complement in the home and those with similar roles had different titles making it difficult to compare between countries. Nevertheless, the survey results highlight that some categories of staff were either absent or deemed non-essential during the pandemic. We require standardized high-quality workforce data to design better decision-making tools for staffing and planning, which are in line with the complex care needs of the residents and prevent precarious work conditions for staff.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage) |
Keywords: | long-term care homes, COVID-19, workforce, staff complement, common data elements |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Healthcare (Leeds) > Nursing Adult (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leeds Care Association Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2022 17:02 |
Last Modified: | 05 Sep 2023 11:16 |
Published Version: | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/233372142... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/23337214221090803 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184757 |