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Infection Prevention and Control guidance for Long-Term Care Facilities

Interim guidance from the World Health Organization for Long-Term Care Facilities in the context of COVID-19.

Doctors, nurses coming out of retirement to help New Brunswick and Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 response

Physicians and nurses in two provinces in Canada are coming out of retirement to help with the response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Does this call into question the issue of a mandatory retirement age?

COVID-19 Now We All Know What It’s Like To Be Old & Alone

Due to COVID-19, all of us are experiencing the isolation many older adults experience every day

Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions and Guidelines for Institutional Ethics Services Responding to the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

An ethically sound framework for health care during public health emergencies must balance the patient-centered duty of care—the focus of clinical ethics under normal conditions—with public-focused duties to promote equality of persons and equity in distribution of risks and benefits in society—the focus of public health ethics.

Prisons and Custodial Settings are Part of a Comprehensive Response to COVID-19

COVID-19 outbreaks in custodial settings are of importance for public health, for at least two reasons: first, that explosive outbreaks in these settings have the potential to overwhelm prison health-care services and place additional demands on overburdened specialist facilities in the community; and second, that, with an estimated 30 million people released from custody each year globally, prisons are a vector for community transmission that will disproportionately impact marginalised communities.