AFAR & GIA Webinar Recording: COVID-19 Vulnerability and Mortality in Nursing Homes - Why Systemic Changes are Needed Now
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and Grantmakers in Aging (GIA) co-hosted a webinar July 21, "COVID-19 Vulnerability and Mortality in Nursing Homes: Why Systemic Changes are Needed Now."
How can we better protect loved ones in long term care from COVID-19? In many states, nursing home patients account for 40% of COVID-19 related deaths. Drawing on front-line experience and published research, this webinar examined strategies for lowering illness and death rates among this highly vulnerable population and proposed immediate solutions and need for a national planning task force.
Presenters included:
- Mark S. Lachs, MD, MPH, AFAR Board President; Director of Geriatrics, The New York Presbyterian Health Care System; Co-Chief of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Nathaniel Hupert, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Karl Pillemer, PhD, Hazel E. Reed Professor in the Department of Human Development, Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Outreach in the College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
To watch the recording, click here.
