COVID-19
Reports – Australia
Charlesworth, S & Low S-F 2020, ‘The long-term-care COVID-19 situation in Australia’ for the International LTC Policy Network
Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety 2020, ‘Aged Care and COVID-19: Special Report’
Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation 2022, ‘National COVID-19 in Aged Care Survey, Final Report’
The Long Care (LTC) Network, is an international research group that has been working with LTC covid initiative and the Intergenerational Longer term Policy Network (ILPN) researchers across more than 20 countries to collect, collate and compare data on covid-related deaths in long term care. See countries reports here
Reports – Canada
Estabrooks CA, Straus S, Flood, CM, Keefe J, Armstrong P, Donner G, Boscart V, Ducharme F, Silvius J, Wolfson M. 2020 ‘Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and the future of long-term care.’ Royal Society of Canada,
Armstrong, P, Harrington, C & McGregor, M 2020, ‘Staffing for COVID-19 and Beyond’ Longwoods.com, accessed 22 July 2022. Three prominent aged care academics argue the evidence linking staffing levels and good quality care is clear, and staffing levels must be addressed to manage COVID-19 in long term care facilities.
Blogs
Home care work in the COVID-19 era by Sara Charlesworth and Wendy Taylor
COVID-19 and Long-term Care’ by Sara Charlesworth on RMIT’s CPOW website
Presentations
‘The Aged Care Workforce and Client Wellbeing’: Five lessons from COVID-19 in Australia’, Charlesworth, S and Taylor W, online presentation for Dementia New Zealand, 2022
‘COVID-19: Reshaping the regulation of work and the workplace’, Distinguished Professor Sara Charlesworth and Professor Anthony Forsyth, for the College and Business and Law (COBL) and Centre for People, Organisation and Work (CPOW), 2020
‘COVID-19 toll on the aged care system’, Charlesworth, S internal presentation, RMIT, 2020
Aged Care COVID-19 statistics
The Department of Health of the Australian Government maintains statistics on the incidence of COVID infections and deaths in government funded aged care services. This includes both residential aged care homes and home care services. The statistics provide a snapshot for both older people receiving support and aged care workers providing care.
COVID-19 At a Glance Infographic (published daily)
A daily infographic listing the number of confirmed cases among older people living in aged care residences and receiving home care.
COVID-19 Outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities (published weekly)
Updated regularly, this site includes the number of outbreaks in facilities, the number of facilities with outbreaks, the no of resident and staff cases and the number of recovered residents and staff cases.
COVID -19 in aged care services – home care. These regularly updated stats include the number of active cases and the number of deaths among older people receiving aged care services at home.