Aged care visitor guidelines balance residents' rights and coronavirus risk – but may be hard to implement
- Written by Yun-Hee Jeon, Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing, University of Sydney
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One in four Australians who have died from COVID-19 is from an aged care facility.
These deaths show how fatal and fast the spread of the infection can be, and the extreme challenge of containing the virus once a positive case appears in aged care homes.
But there is also community pressure to ease social distancing rules for aged care...