The purpose of this resource is to provide guidance to long-term care facilities when making decisions about accepting hospital discharges.
This document describes various State-based approaches to addressing social isolation in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This flyer highlights key Psychological First Aid concepts and resources disaster responders and outreach workers may use when assisting individuals affected by the pandemic. It also provides resources for further assistance.
This LeadingAge toolkit was developed to help long-term care settings increase vaccine access for residents, care recipients, and staff.
This document includes examples of caring communication in a variety of situations.
This checklist will help post-acute and long-term care settings prepare to administer booser immunizations.
This document provides ideas for communicating with family members of residents during COVID-19.
This resource provides guidance on compassionate care during COVID-19.
This tip sheet offers ways to implement and sustain consistent assignment of point-of-care staff.
The guide helps healthcare staff and leaders engage in effective conversations about COVID-19 vaccination.
This document provides ideas for keeping in touch with loved ones living in long-term care facilities when you are unable to visit them in-person.
This toolkit is a compilation of considerations for long-term care facilities based on lessons learned during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic accompanied by resources to inform planning and response efforts.
This guide assists healthcare professionals in having conversations about values and care preferences with patients and caregivers.
This document contains a list of immunization training and educational materials, including basic and COVID-19-vaccine-specific information.
This Fact Sheet provides instructions for preparation and administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 12 years of age and older.
The partnership survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and The Washington Post examines the experiences and attitudes of frontline healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic. This report highlights findings from the survey related to vaccine intentions among frontline healthcare workers and the toll of the coronavirus pandemic on healthcare workers.
This flyer provides instructions on how to use V-safe, a smartphone-based tool that uses text messaging and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins after you receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
This document provides guidance on utilizing hospice services in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this communications guide, Ann Christiano and Jack Barry from the Center for Public Interest Communications at the University of Florida share 8 Principles of COVID-19 Vaccine Communications.
This information is for hospital staff to use when discharging a patient to a nursing home.
This form is to be used by nursing home staff prior to patient transfer to the hospital.
This resource provides nursing home leadership with important factors to consider when developing and implementing a staff vaccination program.
This guide outlines steps to safely and correctly administer an intramuscular injection, like the COVID-19, flu, pneumonia, and shingles vaccines.
This guide is designed to help nursing home leaders build COVID-19 vaccine confidence among CNAs and overcome barriers to vaccination by applying insights from social, behavioral and cognitive science.
This guide assists nursing home facility leadership with having effective one-on-one conversations with staff on vaccines and delivering a standardized curriculum to help raise staff awareness of accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccines.