Nursing care applications sank in first half amid COVID-19 fears, Japanese survey finds
Requests for day care certification dropped substantially across the nation, pointing to an apparent fear of health care workers as infections surged.
Japan's essential care workers currently languish at the bottom of the health care pyramid
Caregiving companies are going out of business even as the demand for their services increases.
IoT and AI help Japan's nursing care sector cope with labor crunch and virus
Sensors are monitoring the lifestyle habits of the elderly, while AI-initiated phone calls are checking on seniors daily.
Care workers in Nagoya struggle to aid elderly in coronavirus pandemic
After clusters of COVID-19 infections were reported at care centers, the city asked some facilities to close down for two weeks.
Deadly Sapporo coronavirus cluster highlights challenges faced by elderly care homes
The virus spread rapidly due to delays in hospitalizing residents who had tested positive.
More elderly care providers in Japan closing to ride out virus crisis
More day care and short-stay facilities for the elderly have shut since the emergency declaration for the coronavirus crisis was expanded nationwide on April 16, the health ministry says. Those suspended during the week through last Sunday numbered 858, accounting for 1.13 percent of all ...
'Unimaginable human tragedy' in Europe's care homes, says WHO
The World Health Organization said Thursday that Europe was seeing an "unimaginable human tragedy" at its care homes, where deaths from the new coronavirus accounted for up to 50 percent in some countries. The WHO Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, called the situation "deeply ...
Elderly residents left soiled and unfed after their caregivers fled the premises, 31 deaths in the space of a few weeks: a nursing home in Montreal has become the symbol of the terrible toll coronavirus is taking in Canada's long-term care homes. The bleak situation ...
'They just sedate them': Coronavirus overwhelms Spain's care homes
As Spain struggles desperately to cope with almost 120,000 coronavirus infections, it barely has the strength to help its overwhelmed care homes and their elderly residents, singularly vulnerable to the respiratory disease. With hospitals stretched to breaking point, the elderly are being turned away, and ...
Lockdown: Nursing homes in Spain a vector for deadly coronavirus
Death arrived slowly at the nursing home where Chelo Megia works. Then it was everywhere. On March 11, a Wednesday, Megia still thought the Residencia Nunez De Balboa in central Spain, where she had been an auxiliary nurse for 15 years, might avoid the new ...
Nearly 20% of Japan nursing care providers out of masks amid COVID-19 outbreak
Nearly 20 percent of nursing care service providers in Japan have run out of face masks, which have been in short supply in the country as the COVID-19 outbreak continues, a recent survey by a labor union has shown. Out of providers of home-visit nursing ...
At new Chiba facility for seniors, residents find a new purpose
In a three-story building in Chiba that looks like a posh apartment complex, various people come and go — seniors and young people, moms enjoying a lunch with friends, and children coming in to shop for snacks. It's become an important place in their ...
