Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 1762
Special Issue Editor
Interests: health services research; long-term care; staffing and workload; quality and safety of health care; healthy work environments; occupational health and safety; workplace violence
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Dear Colleagues,
The long-term care (LTC) sector is an overlooked, under-resourced, and understudied healthcare sector. The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the surface systemic, long-standing, and pervasive deficiencies within the sector, resulting in significant human suffering and tragic loss of life. The LTC deficiencies have led to serious difficulties with the provision of high-quality person-centered care for LTC residents, further marginalizing LTC residents and their providers, who are known to be adversely impacted at the intersection of many diversity factors such as age, race, gender, immigration, and disability. The questions are: What can we do to address LTC deficiencies that compromise high-quality, person-centered care for LTC residents? What policies and practices improve the provision of quality, safe, and equitable care in LTC? This Special Issue invites researchers to share new research and perspectives on care delivery in LTC, especially evidence-informed strategies at different system levels (e.g., socioecological levels).
Dr. Farinaz Havaei
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- long-term care
- quality of care
- quality of life
- working conditions
- person-centered care
- cognitive impairment
- staffing and workload
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