Pandemic

Where healthcare workers live, as well as other social factors, plays a role in whether they get COVID-19, a new study finds.

It’s no secret that nursing homes dealt with challenges in staffing from COVID-19. A study released last week in JAMA Network Open aimed to better understand how nursing home administrators thought about...

A new study in JAMA Neurology found that excess deaths — more than the normal number — among people with Alzheimer’s and dementia in nursing homes declined significantly during the second year...

Researchers suggest that nursing homes offered better dementia care during the pandemic, compared to those remaining at home.

Even though oral antiviral drugs and monoclonal antibodies help people recover from COVID-19, a new report found that nursing homes didn’t use the medications much during the pandemic.  

The surprising persistence of these additional deaths reflects geographic care disparities and gaps in vaccine uptake that should be remedied, investigators say.

It is time for the international community to recognize COVID-19 as an endemic disease and end the pandemic health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Friday.

For two years, monoclonal antibodies were approved, revoked and sometimes reauthorized or scarce, but pushing through these challenges “unequivocally saved lives and prevented hospitalizations,”...

A new study has pinpointed key factors that can serve as targets for improving residents’ quality of life, researchers say.

Dementia and the pandemic did not have a significant impact on caregivers’ overall ratings of care quality. But people with dementia were more likely to have unmet spiritual needs.