Long-term care settings in the times of COVID-19: challenges and future directions

Affiliations

¹ Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
² Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
³ Department of Public Health, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
⁴ Department of Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine; The Herczeg Institute on Aging; Igor Orenstein Chair for the Study of Geriatrics; Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
⁵ NGO Committee on Ageing, Geneva.
⁶ International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁷ Language, Logic and Cognition Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

Liat Ayalon et al. Int Psychogeriatr. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;32(10):1239-1243.

doi: 10.1017/S1041610220001416. Epub 2020 Jul 1.

¹ Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
² Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
³ Department of Public Health, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
⁴ Department of Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine; The Herczeg Institute on Aging; Igor Orenstein Chair for the Study of Geriatrics; Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
⁵ NGO Committee on Ageing, Geneva.
⁶ International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁷ Language, Logic and Cognition Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

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