LIVING WITH COVID-19 IN ONE LONG-TERM CARE HOME: A BRIEF REPORT ON STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE DINING

ABSTRACT

Following the public health policies enacted in British Columbia, our long-term care (LTC) home restricted visitors from the outside. Keywords practice improvement project, long-term care homes, COVID-19, resident dining experience, staff selfreflection BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great changes in the everyday life of long-term care (LTC) home residents and has presented difficult challenges for LTC home staff to support and provide care with residents. [...]Hung searched for the codes and patterns across the data and identified initial themes. [...]all authors discussed the themes together in research meetings (via Zoom) and gained analytic consensus and refined the final themes.