226 - COVID-19 in Assisted Living Facilities and the Special Challenges with Alzheimer's Disease

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Assisted living facilities are small, congregate settings that make infection control measures harder to implement. These facilities also care for a large proportion of residents with Alzheimer's disease—a challenge for enforcing guidance like mask wearing, hand washing, and social distancing. Dr. Morgan Katz, a Hopkins geriatrician and infectious disease specialist, and Shanna Dell, lead infection control adviser on the outbreak team of the Baltimore City Health Department talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about these challenges and about a new, free course available on Coursera developed to help assisted living facilities to keep their residents safe.

KEYWORDS: mental health; pandemic response; geriatric health

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.3	I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
0:19.6	Our goal is to bring scientific evidence
0:22.4	and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists,
0:27.8	community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas
0:34.4	or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jh.h.edu.
0:41.1	That's public health question at jhhU.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:47.4	Today, I speak with Dr. Morgan Katz, a geriatrician and infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins,
0:54.2	and was Sean Adele, the lead infection control
0:56.8	advisor on the outbreak team of the Baltimore City Health
0:59.9	Department.
1:01.2	Our topic is COVID-19 in assisted living facilities,
1:04.8	including the special challenge of COVID-19 and Alzheimer's disease.
1:09.3	If this topic is of special interest to you, consider taking a free
1:12.7	new course now online at corsair.org. This course was developed by Johns Hopkins and Baltimore
1:18.7	City, specifically to help assisted living facilities keep their residents safe. Let's listen.
1:25.7	Thank you so much to both of you for joining me.
1:28.3	And I'd like to start with you, Dr. Katz.
1:30.3	When we talk about assisted living facilities and the challenge of COVID-19,
1:35.3	a lot of people might think of the challenge of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
1:39.3	But how to assisted living facilities differ from nursing homes in ways that are important for COVID-19?
1:47.2	Yeah, thanks so much for having me here, Josh.
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