Caring for Older People during and beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic : Experiences of Residential Health Care Workers

Veronica Sze-Ki LAI; Sui-Yu YAU; Linda Yin-King LEE; Becky Siu-Yin LI; Susan Sin-Ping LAW; Shixin HUANG

doi:10.3390/ijerph192215287

Caring for Older People during and beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic : Experiences of Residential Health Care Workers

Veronica Sze-Ki LAI
, Sui-Yu YAU
, Linda Yin-King LEE
, Becky Siu-Yin LI
, Susan Sin-Ping LAW
, Shixin HUANG^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

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Abstract

Older people and health care workers in residential care homes are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 has been spreading around the world for more than two years, the nature of care delivery has been substantially transformed. This study aims at understanding the long-term and ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on the delivery of care in residential care homes. It investigates how the delivery of care has been transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic and how health care workers adapted to these changes from the perspectives of frontline health care workers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted from February to December 2021 with a purposive sample of 30 health care workers from six residential care homes in Hong Kong. Thematic analysis identified three themes, including (1) enhancing infection prevention and control measures; (2) maintaining the psychosocial wellbeing of residents; and (3) developing resilience. Discussions and implications were drawn from these findings.

Original language	English
Article number	15287
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume	19
Issue number	22
Early online date	19 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215287
Publication status	Published - Nov 2022

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Funding

The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (UGC/FDS16/M12/20).

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

COVID-19
long-term care facilities
health care workers
delivery of care
qualitative study

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