BackgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed several cracks in our healthcare, social care and long-term care systems. The nursing home sector, in particular, has been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 virus (Comas-Herrera & Zalakain, 2020). In a study of 22 countries, an alarming 41% of their COVID-19 related deaths occurred in nursing homes, while only, on average, 0.7% of the total population live in nursing homes (Comas-Herrera et al., 2021). Nursing home residents are typically frail older adults often characterised as living with multiple chronic diseases and functional impairments, making them more susceptible to severe complications and mortality as a result of a COVID-19 infection (Barnett &