ABSTRACT
The chapter provides recommendations to mitigate the impact of the pandemic and improve care of older adults. The disaster that unfolded in Long-term Care facilities indicates need for reconfiguring the care sector through greater investments in infrastructure, architecture, infection-management and their structural integration with other health settings. Likewise, challenges in home care suggest greater importance on community engagement models. Suggestions are also made for improving health delivery patterns and reorganizing hospital-based care. Along with these structural changes, the pandemic has demonstrated the necessity for palliative and end-of-life care, diversifying the knowledge-base and balancing public health measures with social and economic imperatives. The intersection between age and inequality requires measures to create more inclusive societies. Finally, the importance of good data is asserted to enable clear analysis of the problems and aid inter-country comparisons. The chapter ends with a few successful stories to demonstrate how certain practices worked in keeping older adults largely protected from the virus.
