During the coronavirus health emergency, the LTSS Center will be sharing research studies and research-based articles focusing on how the pandemic is affecting older adults and the people who care for them. We welcome your contributions. If you have read a compelling study or research-based article, send the link to LTSScenter@LeadingAge.org.
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What’s the Evidence for Wearing Masks?
If 80% of people wear a mask in public, COVID-19 transmission could be halted.
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3 Ways to Encourage Universal Mask-Wearing
Make mask-wearing easy, understood, and expected, write 3 Penn professors.
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Your Response to the Coronavirus Could Lie in Your Genes
Why do some people die from COVID-19 infection while others don’t even show symptoms?
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Hispanic Older Adults: Financial Impact of COVID-19
The financial hardships created by the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the economic security of all older adults, but it will hurt older Hispanics the most.
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Helping Affordable Housing Communities Fight COVID-19
Federal, state, and local policy makers must recognize that publicly subsidized senior housing communities are hotspots for COVID-19 infection and spread.
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The Invisible COVID Workforce: Direct Care Workers
Our COVID-19 response has not recognized the importance of the invisible direct care workforce.