A public health agency official has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry that visiting in care homes during the pandemic was about "managing risk". Heather Reid, the interim director of Nursing, Midwifery and ...

“Covid is not pretty in a nursing home,” said Deb Wityk, a 70-year-old retired massage therapist who lives in one called Spurgeon Manor, in rural Iowa. She twice contracted the disease and is ...

The coronavirus decimated nursing homes during the first two years of the pandemic, killing more than 200,000 residents and staff members.

Half of the $3 million settlement is restitution, according to a copy of the agreement the U.S. attorney’s office shared with ...

The first terrifying wave of Covid-19 caused 60,000 deaths among residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities within five months.

Prior research and the popular press have anecdotally reported inadequate nursing home staffing levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining adequate staffing levels is critical to ensuring ...

More testing of nursing home staff would have reduced covid-19 deaths, study says Researchers say facilities that tested staff most frequently experienced 26 percent fewer resident deaths in the ...

But Sheila Hayward - the only remaining resident to have lived through the Covid-19 pandemic at the care home - said she will never take this for granted.

Aged care residents are also disproportionately dying of COVID. Those in nursing homes account for nearly 30% of the 11,000 deaths from COVID in Australia throughout the pandemic. Why is this ...

As COVID gripped the nation five years ago, nursing home operators often found themselves blamed for devastating outcomes.

In lawsuits, some families who lost loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic say they were misled by nursing home facilities.

Five years after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, some nursing homes have made improvements. But widespread, systematic change has not arrived.