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Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult social care guidance
Collection of COVID-19 information and guidance for adult social care settings.
Introduction
This page provides links to guidance. It is for:
- professionals working in the adult social care sector
- unpaid carers
- friends and family who have a loved one in an adult care home
- personal assistants
Adult care homes
- Public Health Scotland: COVID-19 - information and guidance for social, community and residential care settings - version 2.6
- ARHAI Scotland: National Infection Prevention and Control Manual: Appendix 21: COVID-19 Pandemic IPC Controls for Health and Social Care Settings (scot.nhs.uk)
- NHS Inform: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance for visiting loved ones in an adult care home
- My Health, My Care, My Home - healthcare framework for adults living in care homes
- Open with Care: supporting meaningful contact in adult care homes – principles
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult care homes visiting guidance
- Open with Care: adult care home visiting guidance - easy read
- Open with Care: adult care home visiting leaflet
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support arrangements for social care providers
Care at home and supported housing including visiting
Guidance for care at home, sheltered housing, retirement/amenity housing, extra care housing, housing with care, supported living, supported housing and housing with multiple occupancies.
Unpaid carers
Vaccinations
- NHS Inform the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine
- Scottish Government: Coronavirus (Covid-19): vaccination
Infection, prevention and control (IPC)
- ARHAI Scotland: National Infection Prevention and Control Manual: Appendix 21: COVID-19 Pandemic IPC Controls for Health and Social Care Settings (scot.nhs.uk)
- Covid Sense campaign resources
Personal protective equipment (PPE) including face masks
- Public Health Scotland:COVID-19 - information and guidance for social, community and residential care settings - version 2.6
- ARHAI Scotland: National Infection Prevention and Control Manual: Appendix 21: COVID-19 Pandemic IPC Controls for Health and Social Care Settings (scot.nhs.uk)
Self-isolation
- update on self-isolation for health and social care staff (PDF)
- Public Health Scotland:COVID-19 - information and guidance for social, community and residential care settings - version 2.6
- ARHAI Scotland: National Infection Prevention and Control Manual: Appendix 21: COVID-19 Pandemic IPC Controls for Health and Social Care Settings (scot.nhs.uk)
Treatments for COVID-19
- NHS Inform Coronavirus (Covid-19): treatments
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