RESPONDING TO THE COVID-19 IN RESIDENTIAL LONGTERM CARE IN POLAND: WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO INCREASE SAFETY OF THE ELDERLY

Abstract

The paper addressed the Covid-19 outbreak in Poland and how long-term care was affected?. It outlines and discusses the response to the crisis in residential care as well as the recommendations on the organization of nursing and care services in long-term care. The paper suggests a necessity of establishing not only support to institutions, where infection still occur but for establishing a mechanism to provide assistance to older and dependent people at home, who are also at high risk of negative consequences of the pandemic?

Keywords

• covid-19
• long-term care
• poland