There was no scientific advice to test discharged patients at Covid's start, an ex-minister says.

A public health agency official has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry that visiting in care homes during the pandemic was about "managing risk". Heather Reid, the interim director of Nursing, Midwifery and ...

For much of last year, the Los Angeles Jewish Home had relatively few COVID-19 cases, evading the pandemic’s hefty toll on long-term care residents in Southern California.

The spread of COVID-19 has added pressure to the home health care industry, which more than 10 million Americans rely on for assistance.

The spread of coronavirus disease to a skilled nursing facility in Washington state underscores the risk the deadly new virus poses in elder care facilities, where illnesses caused by more common ...

Early evidence suggests that older people — especially those with existing health problems — are more vulnerable to the new coronavirus and more likely to die from it, much like the flu.

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on older people in care homes across Canada. Yet serious concerns remain for a different kind of epidemic that may continue throughout the rollout of vaccines ...

A large-scale study of older adults found that severe COVID-19 infections requiring hospitalizations are associated with accelerated cognitive decline. Milder cases that do not require hospital care ...

Long-term care industry is “very strongly positioned” to deal with the pandemic going forward.

An outbreak of coronavirus in a nursing home near Seattle is prompting urgent calls for precautionary tactics at America’s elder care facilities, where residents are at heightened risk of ...