Nursing home social work during COVID-19

ABSTRACT

This reprinted chapter originally appeared in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2020, 63[6-7], 651-653. (The following of the original article appeared in record 2021-00510-020.) This letter highlights a few of the many the challenges facing nursing home social services workers and departments during COVID-19. We share them as the challenges, sacrifices, and important work of this professional group was largely unnoticed by the media and may not be widely known even within the social work field. Our group's activities also highlight the ways that researchers can support our practice colleagues at this difficult time, amplify their everyday efforts, and contribute to healing during this pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)