New Ways of Working? A Rapid Exploration of Emerging Evidence Regarding the Care of Older People during COVID19.

ABSTRACT: Health and social care staff have had to quickly adapt, respond and improve teamwork, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to rapidly summarize the emerging evidence of new ways of working in the care of older people during this period. We conducted an exploration of the emerging evidence within the timeframe of 1 March 2020 to 11 May 2020. To capture a broad perspective, we undertook thematic analysis of Twitter data which was extracted through a broad search for new ways of working in health and social care. For a more in-depth focus on the health and social care of older people, we undertook a systematic scoping of newspapers using the Nexis UK database. We undertook a validation workshop with members of the interprofessional working group of the Irish National Inte

SUBMITTER: Ni She E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7558069 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature