IMPACT members Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA, MS and Health Care Systems Scholar Gail Towsley, PhD, MS, NHA published an article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). The editorial article, Learning from the experience of dementia care for nursing home residents during the pandemic, comments on an article by Gadbois et al, about nursing home care during the COVID pandemic. Unroe and Towsley comment on issues including the need for dementia care specific staff training, the value of telehealth communication, and the particular importance of expanding family roles in nursing home care. The authors describe the creation of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition as a response to pandemic-era policies which prevented family members from visiting nursing home residents to limit COVID transmission
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