Lessons from the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic within long-term care systems
ABOUT THIS WEBINAR
COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the ongoing global lack of preparedness of long-term care systems to guarantee care and safety to older adults who are living with loss of functional ability, representing one of the biggest health and social care crises of this and future generations.
Adelina Comas-Herrera will review the international evidence on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the population that uses and delivers care around the world, and measures taken to mitigate these impacts. After, she will present examples on how different countries are facing the pandemic and the lessons learnt to ensure that care systems can become better prepared to face the COVID-19 pandemic, other future challenges, both anticipated (such as population aging), as well as unexpected ones.
PANELIST
Adelina Comas Herrera is a Researcher at the Care Policy and Evaluation Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is principal investigator of the Project “Social Care COVID Recovery and Resilience” and co-leader of the STRiDE project (Strengthening Responses to Dementia in developing countries). In March 2020, she created the LTCcovid.org Platform, which has generated and shared international evidence on the impacts of COVID-19 in the long-term care sector.
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