Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

Andrea Freidus is the Graduate Director of the MA/MPH program at UNC Charlotte. She is an applied medical anthropologist whose main research interest is about the impact of COVID-19 on congregate and community-based care for older Americans in the Charlotte region.

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments



Introduction: “We’re Building the Plane While We’re Flying It”: A Case Study of Long-Term Care Workers during COVID-19 in North Carolina



Chapter 1. Perspectives of Regional Area Agency on Aging Staff and Long-Term Care Advocates: A Rapid Qualitative Appraisal

Chapter 2. “It Spread Like Wildfire”: Challenges in Providing Care in Long-term Residential Care Communities

Chapter 3. Finding Resilience in Crisis: Home and Community-Based Programming during COVID-19

Chapter 4. Activities and Engagement: Avoiding Isolation and Loneliness



Chapter 5. Caring for People with Dementia during COVID-19

Dena Shenk, Andrea Freidus and Christin Wolf



Chapter 6. Providing Long Term Care Throughout the Pandemic: The Perspective of Administrators and Managers



Chapter 7. Roles and Professional Identities in Defining Reality: A Linguistic Analysis

Boyd Davis & Christin Wolf



Chapter 8. Caring for Older Adults in Long Term Residential Care during COVID-19 in the United States and Switzerland: Balancing Protection and Social Isolation

Andrea Freidus, Dena Shenk, Megan Davies, Christin Wolf, and Sandra Staudacher



Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Applications as We Look to the Future



References

Index