Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult social care guidance

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 (including care homes for older people registered with the Care Inspectorate)
• ARHAI Scotland: National Infection Prevention Control Manual Appendix 22 - community IPC COVID - 19 Pandemic
• 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.

• Public Health Scotland: COVID-19 - information and guidance for social, community and residential care settings (including care homes for older people registered with the Care Inspectorate)

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for care at home, housing support and supported housing

Day services

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): adult social care building-based day services - guidance

Unpaid carers

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for unpaid carers

Vaccinations

• NHS Inform the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine
• Scottish Government: Coronavirus (Covid-19): vaccination

Testing

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care and community based testing guidance

Infection, prevention and control (IPC)

• ARHAI Scotland: National Infection Prevention Control Manual Appendix 22 - community IPC COVID - 19 Pandemic  
• 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 (including care homes for older people registered with the Care Inspectorate)
• ARHAI Scotland: National Infection Prevention Control Manual Appendix 22 - community IPC COVID - 19 Pandemic

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): use of face coverings in social care settings including adult care homes

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 (including care homes for older people registered with the Care Inspectorate)
• ARHAI Scotland: National Infection Prevention Control Manual Appendix 22 - community IPC COVID-19 Pandemic

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): living with dementia in care homes

Treatments for COVID-19

• NHS Inform Coronavirus (Covid-19): treatments

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): treatment options - guidance for care homes

Financial support

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care staff support fund guidance
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): social care worker death in service payment
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support arrangements for social care providers