Confinement du personnel d'Ehpad avec les residents : une solution contre le Covid-19 ? #MMPMID32897192
Belmin J; Um Din N; Pariel S; Lafuente-Lafuente C
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil 2020[Sep]; 18 (3): 238-240 PMID32897192show ga
The Coronarovirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak strongly affected nursing and was responsible for a high mortality rate. During the pandemic of March-May 2020, 17 French nursing homes organized staff confinement periods with residents 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, to reduce the risk of entry of the SARS-CoV-2 virus into their facilities, in a context where visits to residents were prohibited. By means of a telephone survey of their directors, we observed that 16 nursing homes (94%) had no cases of COVID-19 among the residents, and that mortality from COVID-19 was very low compared to that recorded at the national level by Sante publique France (p<10(-4)). Moreover, the number of cases of Covid-19 among the staff of these nursing homes was also lower than that recorded by Sante publique France (p<10(-4)). These establishments experienced certain difficulties which the directors managed to overcome and the investment of these teams was widely appreciated by the families of the residents and through the press.
Geriatr+Psychol+Neuropsychiatr+Vieil 2020 ; 18 (3): 238-240
