After COVID-19 vaccinations: what does living and working in nursing homes look like?

Autor: Urlings JHJ; Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Postbus 616, 6200, MD Maastricht, the Netherlands. j.urlings@maastrichtuniversity.nl.; Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care, Maastricht, the Netherlands. j.urlings@maastrichtuniversity.nl., Backhaus R; Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Postbus 616, 6200, MD Maastricht, the Netherlands.; Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care, Maastricht, the Netherlands., Verbeek H; Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Postbus 616, 6200, MD Maastricht, the Netherlands.; Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care, Maastricht, the Netherlands., de Boer B; Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Postbus 616, 6200, MD Maastricht, the Netherlands.; Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care, Maastricht, the Netherlands., Koopmans RTCM; Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.; De Waalboog 'Joachim en Anna', Center for Specialized Geriatric Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands., Gerritsen DL; Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands., Hamers JPH; Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Postbus 616, 6200, MD Maastricht, the Netherlands.; Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC geriatrics [BMC Geriatr] 2023 May 16; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 298. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 16.
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-023-03987-y
Abstrakt: Background: Nursing homes were disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccination was considered critical for the normalization of daily live of nursing home residents. The present study investigates the impact of the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and the effect of vaccinations on the daily lives of residents and staff in Dutch nursing homes.
Setting and Participants: The sample consisted of 78 nursing homes that participated in the Dutch national pilot on nursing home visits after the COVID-19 pandemic. One contact person per nursing home was approached for participation in this mixed-methods cross-sectional study.
Methods: Data was collected twice through questionnaires in April and December 2021. Quantitative questions focused on recent COVID-19 outbreaks, progress of vaccination, effects of vaccination on daily living in the nursing home and burden experienced by staff. Open-ended questions addressed the prolonged effect of the pandemic on residents, family members and staff.
Results: The overall vaccination rate of residents across nursing homes appeared to be high among both residents and staff. However, daily living in the nursing home had not returned to normal concerning personal interactions, visits, the use of facilities and work pressure. Nursing homes continued to report a negative impact of the pandemic on residents, family members and staff.
Conclusions: Restrictions to the daily lives of residents in nursing homes were stricter than restrictions imposed on society as a whole. Returning to a normal daily living and working was found to be complex for nursing homes. With the emergence of new variants of the virus, policies strongly focusing on risk aversion were predominantly present in nursing homes.
(© 2023. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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