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Long-Term Care Coordinating Council urges mental-health pilots and digital access for SNF residents; committee files hearing
Summary
The Long Term Care Coordinating Council presented a behavioral-health report that found profound isolation, depression and cognitive decline among skilled nursing facility residents during COVID and asked the committee for pilots: $250,000/year for therapeutic site interventions and $250,000 over three years for teleconnectivity; the committee filed the hearing and requested follow-up budget details.
The San Francisco Long Term Care Coordinating Council told the Budget & Finance Committee on June 8 that pandemic-era restrictions left many skilled nursing facility residents isolated and facing worsening mental-health and cognitive outcomes, and it urged a set of pilot programs and investments to begin recovery.
Co-chair Laura Leesom of the Institute on Aging summarized a Behavioral Health Work Group report that surveyed local skilled nursing facilities (about 18 facilities representing roughly 2,500 residents) and identified six core themes: extreme loneliness and isolation, higher rates of depression and suicidality, pervasive boredom from canceled activities, disrupted mealtimes and loss of culturally appropriate food access, fear of reentry to communal…
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