COVID-19’s Non-visitor Policy and Its Impact on Social Isolation of Older Adults in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes: A Scoping Review
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide implemented strict non-visitor policies in long-term care (LTC) homes. As a result, older adults were often confined to their rooms and only “essential visitors” were allowed. Following Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and PRISMA-ScR guidelines, the goal was to examine the impact visitor restrictions had on social isolation of older adults in LTC homes in Ontario (Canada) as well as to make recommendations for further research, policy, and practice. Twenty-five articles that met inclusion criteria were reviewed. Themes identified included the impact visitor restrictions had on older adults residing in LTC as well as their ethical and legal implications. Pandemic policies should be assessed at the individual level with family members essential to resident’s care. Information and communication technology (ICT) was seen as crucial to support social connectedness in later life. While written from a Canadian perspective, implications reach globally.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.020 | 0.068 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.013 | 0.021 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".