Didactic Presentations

• Didactic Recordings
• Session 01: Symptom Management & End of Life Care in the COVID-Positive Resident
• Session 02: Preparing your LTC for COVID-19
• Session 03: Infection Prevention & Control (IPAC) Management of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care
• Session 04: Stress and Anxiety
• Session 05: Ethical Guidance for LTC during a Pandemic & Isolation of Residents with Dementia
• Session 06: Delirium: Prevention, Assessment, & Management during COVID-19
• Session 07: Team Integration of Staff being Redeployed into Long-Term Care
• Session 08: Rebuilding relationships with families in the context of COVID-19: Compassionate and proactive communication
• Session 09: Virtual Care and Wellness at Baycrest - The Telemedicine Rapid IMplementation (TRIM) Team
• Session 10: Burnout & Resiliency
• Session 11: Rewiring our approach to safety
• Session 12: Loneliness & Isolation
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Symptom Management & End of Care in the COVID-19 Positive Resident

• Clinical characteristics and outcomes of older patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China (2019)- a single-centered, retrospective study
• Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study
• Clinical features of COVID-19 in elderly patients: A comparison with young and middle-aged patients

Preparing your LTC for COVID-19

• American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Policy Brief: COVID-19 and Nursing Homes
• Breaking social isolation amidst Covid-19: a viewpoint on improving access to technology in long term care facilities
• Online Resources

Busting Infection Control Myths about COVID-19 in LTC

• Canadian Geriatrics Society COVID-19 Recommendations for Older Adults. What Do Older Adults Need To Know?
• COVID-19 And Older Adults: What We Know
• SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 in older adults: what we may expect regarding pathogenesis, immune responses, and outcomes

Anxiety & Stress

• Factors Associated With Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019
• Gratitude and Well Being- The Benefits of Appreciation
• Is the news making us unhappy? The influence of daily news exposure on emotional states
• Mental Health Problems Faced by Healthcare Workers Due to the COVID-19 pandemic-A Review
• Mental Health Strategies to Combat the Psychological Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Beyond Paranoia and Panic
• Online Resources
• The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence
• Vicarious traumatization in the general public, members, and non-members of medical teams aiding in COVID-19 control

Ethical Guidance for LTC during a Pandemic

• A systematic review on the causes of the transmission and control measures of outbreaks in long-term care facilities- Back to basics of infection control
• Epidemiology of Covid-19 in a Long-Term Care Facility in King County, Washington
• Ethical guidance for people who work in long-term care

Delirium: Prevention, Assessment & Management during COVID-19

• Acute Brain Failure Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management, and Sequelae of Delirium
• Clinical characteristics associated with the onset of delirium among long-term nursing home residents
• COVID-19: ICU delirium management during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
• Delirium: a missing piece in the COVID-19 pandemic puzzle
• Neurologic Features in Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Virtual Care

• Infection Control & Cleaning tCart
• tCart & Pocket Talker

Loneliness & Isolation

• A Short Scale for Measuring Loneliness in Large Surveys- Results From Two Population-Based Studies
• Examining Individual and Geographic Factors Associated With Social Isolation and Loneliness Using Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Data
• Online Resources
• Performance of an Abbreviated Version of the Lubben Social Network Scale Among Three European Community-Dwelling Older Adult Populations
• Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

Personal Protective Equipment Resources

• Reuse of Surgical Masks
• World Health Organization -How to Handrub

Additional COVID-19 Resources

• Consistent Detection of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in Saliva
• Online Resources
• Public Health and Ethics Intersect at New Levels With Gerontological Nursing in COVID-19 Pandemic
• The COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of a Geriatrician-Hospitalist Caring for Older Adults