Voices of Long-Term Care Workers

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.

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: “We’re Building the Plane While We’re Flying It”: A Case Study of Long-Term Care Workers during COVID-19 in North CarolinaChapter 1. Perspectives of Regional Area Agency on Aging Staff and Long-Term Care Advocates: A Rapid Qualitative AppraisalChapter 2. “It Spread Like Wildfire”: Challenges in Providing Care in Long-term Residential Care CommunitiesChapter 3. Finding Resilience in Crisis: Home and Community-Based Programming during COVID-19Chapter 4. Activities and Engagement: Avoiding Isolation and LonelinessChapter 5. Caring for People with Dementia during COVID-19Dena Shenk, Andrea Freidus and Christin WolfChapter 6. Providing Long Term Care Throughout the Pandemic: The Perspective of Administrators and ManagersChapter 7. Roles and Professional Identities in Defining Reality: A Linguistic AnalysisBoyd Davis & Christin WolfChapter 8. Caring for Older Adults in Long Term Residential Care during COVID-19 in the United States and Switzerland: Balancing Protection and Social IsolationAndrea Freidus, Dena Shenk, Megan Davies, Christin Wolf, and Sandra Staudacher Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Applications as We Look to the FutureReferencesIndex

“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