Rehabilitation of care home residents will be vital after lockdown ends
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Rehabilitation of care home residents will be vital after lockdown ends

Nicky Hayes Consultant editor, Nursing Older People

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on older people and on care home residents in particular. Many people will have an ongoing legacy of functional decline that goes beyond the breathlessness, ‘brain fog’ and fatigue that are among the most commonly reported symptoms of long COVID.

Nursing Older People. 33, 4, 5-5. doi: 10.7748/nop.33.4.5.s1

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