The long-term care workforce, severely neglected before the pandemic, faced extreme challenges in staffing, access to personal protective equipment, and guidance to protect older people from a highly transmissible, often fatal infectious disease. This workforce is predominantly female, minority, and low income. This conversation will examine how well older adults and caregivers, formal and informal, bore up during the worst of the pandemic. Allied topics include community-dwelling older adults, resilience, long-term care resident experience, risk perception, and social isolation.
