Care Management Matters COVID-19 Special Edition June 2020

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MAKING CONNECTIONS WITH YOUR COMMUNITY We all know that building relationships with external organisations is important. But how are you supposed to do this during coronavirus, with the additional risk of infection? My Home Life England details the impact of COVID-19 on community engagement and how we can all still come together despite social distancing.

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The COVID-19 crisis has brought into sharp focus the central role that the care sector plays in the health of the nation. For too long, care homes have been easy to ignore as places removed from communities, places that simply house the old and dying. This was evidenced just earlier this year, with fatalities in care homes not initially

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