Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: “We’re Building the Plane While We’re Flying It”: A Case Study of Long-Term Care Workers during COVID-19 in North Carolina

Chapter 1. Perspectives of Regional Area Agency on Aging Staff and Long-Term Care Advocates: A Rapid Qualitative Appraisal
Chapter 2. “It Spread Like Wildfire”: Challenges in Providing Care in Long-term Residential Care Communities
Chapter 3. Finding Resilience in Crisis: Home and Community-Based Programming during COVID-19
Chapter 4. Activities and Engagement: Avoiding Isolation and Loneliness

Chapter 5. Caring for People with Dementia during COVID-19
Dena Shenk, Andrea Freidus and Christin Wolf

Chapter 6. Providing Long Term Care Throughout the Pandemic: The Perspective of Administrators and Managers

Chapter 7. Roles and Professional Identities in Defining Reality: A Linguistic Analysis
Boyd Davis & Christin Wolf

Chapter 8. Caring for Older Adults in Long Term Residential Care during COVID-19 in the United States and Switzerland: Balancing Protection and Social Isolation
Andrea Freidus, Dena Shenk, Megan Davies, Christin Wolf, and Sandra Staudacher

Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Applications as We Look to the Future

References
Index

Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond

Andrea Freidus and Dena Shenk

218 pages, 30 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-192-0 Hb Published (January 2024)

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“The book provides remarkable insights into the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on front-line workers in North Carolina who care for the residential elderly (and) uses an excellent combination of ethnographic and epidemiological methods to provide in-depth qualitative insights while contextualized by the larger quantitative world of disease transmission.” • Linda M. Whiteford, University of South Florida

There were many challenges, successes, and concerns in providing long-term care to older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at central North Carolina, the authors highlight the implications of providing long-term care to older Americans, with an emphasis on the importance of communication, resilience of staff, and value of human infrastructure.

Based on extensive interviews, this collection of essays reflects on the participants’ individual experiences and represents the voices of staff and caregivers working in long-term residential care communities, in-home and community-based programs, as well as regional aging service providers and advocates.

Andrea Freidus is the Graduate Director of the MA/MPH program at UNC Charlotte. She is an applied medical anthropologist whose main research interest is about the impact of COVID-19 on congregate and community-based care for older Americans in the Charlotte region.

Dena Shenk is Emerita Professor of Anthropology at UNC Charlotte. She is the author of Someone to Lend a Helping Hand: Women Growing Old in Rural Society (Gordon & Breach Science Publishers Ltd, 1998) and has published numerous articles and book chapters about aging, people living with dementia, and their formal caregivers in the US, Denmark and Peru.

Series: Volume 10, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations

Subject: Medical Anthropology Sociology Applied Anthropology

Area: North America

LC: HV1451 .F74 2024

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC013000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Gerontology; MED058070 MEDICAL/Nursing/Home & Community Care

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Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond

Andrea Freidus and Dena Shenk

Series: Volume 10, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations

Subject: Medical Anthropology Sociology Applied Anthropology

Area: North America

This title is published as Open Access

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Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond

Andrea Freidus and Dena Shenk

Series: Volume 10, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations

Subject: Medical Anthropology Sociology Applied Anthropology

Area: North America

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Knowledge Unlatched.