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Before the pandemic, air quality and the possibility of infrastructure changes to improve it were low on the list of priorities for nursing home leaders. However, after COVID hit, it garnered more interest and attention. “We used to think about this as a quality-of-life issue at best, but it has significant health implications,” said Brian McGarry, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He and his colleague Ashvin Gandhi, PhD, at the Anderson School at UCLA, recently received a $25,000 grant from the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine for their proposed project, The Impact of Indoor Air Quality in U.S.
Source: Caring for the Ages - Category: Health Management Source Type: news