Family caregivers of residents in longterm care homes experienced a collective trauma as they were kept away from their loved ones during the pandemic. This isolation has long-ranging impacts.
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Senior Fellow & Scientist; Retired professor; Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Global Health, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne and CEO Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Asia Pacific, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor, Health Sciences, Carleton University
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Associate Professor of Global Health, UCL
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Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
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Research Fellow - Community Resilience, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
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Associate Teaching Professor, Criminology and Justice, Ontario Tech University
