COVID-19 Resources and Publications

Here are useful links to information on COVID-19 gathered from our research teams, our partners, health authorities, and other sources. This page will be updated frequently with new resources.

In the News

• Isolation’s devastating impact on dementia patients, a CBC The National segment aired on November 18, 2020.

Resources for patients, families and caregivers

• NEW – Dementia Activity Booklet (for caregivers and their loved ones living with dementia)
• Dementia Isolation Toolkit Project (with contribution of Team 11 members Andrea Iaboni and Arlene Astell)
  • Ethical guidance for people who work in long-term-care: What is the right thing to do in a pandemic?
• Alzheimer Society of Canada
  • Tips for people with dementia, caregivers and families
  • Online Activities for People with Dementia
  • Response to COVID-19
• Canadian Geriatrics Journal 
  • Canadian Geriatrics Society COVID-19 Recommendations for Older Adults
• Canadian Geriatrics Society
  • Resources for older adults and health care workers
• British Gymnastics Foundation
  • Love to Move Booklet – exercises for people with dementia
• Alzheimer Disease International
  • Advice & Support During COVID-19
  • VIDEO: Continuing care and support during COVID-19
  • VIDEO: Dementia Care during the COVID-19 Outbreak
• ONDRI
  • Social Distancing YES, Social Isolation NO
• Dementia UK
  • Calming Techniques for a person with dementia – and for you
• Being Patient
  • 7 Ways to Cope With COVID-19 as a Caregiver
• CARP
  • What you need to know

Resources for Healthcare practitioners

•  NEW – Dementia Isolation Toolkit
• Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Assesment & Disease Monitoring
  • Remote cognitive and behavioral assessment: Report of the Alzheimer Society of Canada Task Force on dementia care best practices for COVID‐19
• Public Health Agency of Canada 
  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): For health professionals
• Canadian Medical Association
  • How to set up virtual care in your practice
• Canadian family practitioners 
  • Telemedicine
• Canadian Geriatrics Journal
  • Age Alone is not Adequate to Determine Health-care Resource Allocation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Hybrid COVID Stress Scale Questionnaire (Phone Interviews)
  • Prepared by Suzanne King, McGill University. Reproduced with author’s permission
• Johns Hopkins University
  • Coronavirus Resource Center
• New England Journal of Medicine
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19)

CCNA members research publications

Many CCNA members have broadened their research during the COVID-19 outbreak. We have chosen to present their publications in this section.

• Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Letter to the Editor concerning the use of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) for telemedecine assessment during COVID-19
  • Clinical judgement is paramount when performing cognitive screening during COVID-19
  • Pandemic Dementia Scarce Resource Allocation
• Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • Editorial: Uncovering the devaluation of nursing home staff during COVID-19: are we fuelling the next health care crisis?

General information on COVID-19

• The Lancet
  • Dementia care during COVID-19

Other useful resources

• Caregiving in the age of COVID-19 – Blog by Nathan Herrmann MD FRCPC