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01/13/2012 01:00 PM
Drug Errors In Care Homes Very Common, UK
According to a study conducted by the University of Warwick and the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE), a new electronic medication management system developed in the UK for nursing and residential homes, has been demonstrated to considerably lower the number of drug administration errors…
01/05/2012 03:00 AM
Managing And Reducing Costs For Heart Failure Via Home Monitoring
Heart failure affects 5.8 million people in the U.S. alone and is responsible for nearly 1 million hospitalizations each year, most resulting from a build-up of body fluid in the lungs and other organs due to the heart’s inability to pump effectively…
12/16/2011 04:00 AM
Holiday Gifts For Caregivers Should Provide Much-Needed Respite, Make Caregiving Easier
With an estimated 65 million caregivers in the U.S., many Americans have at least one on their holiday gift list…
12/10/2011 03:00 AM
UWM Partners With CareConscious To Deliver TCARE To Family Caregivers
CareConscious, a North Carolina-based start-up company, has completed a license agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Foundation to bring care management tools to family caregivers across the country through a highly customizable Internet program…
12/09/2011 05:00 AM
Remember To Care For The Caregivers This Holiday Season
More five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia and over 70 percent of those individuals are cared for in their homes by a spouse or other family member…
12/09/2011 03:00 AM
Seniors With Disabilities Struggle To Remain At Home As Public Programs Lose Funding
California’s low-income seniors with disabilities are struggling to remain in their homes as public funding for long-term care services shrinks and may be slashed even further, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research conducted with support from The SCAN Foundation…
12/02/2011 03:00 AM
Hospice Caregivers Need Routine Care Interventions
A study led by the University of Kentucky researcher Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles found that hospice family caregivers are “second order patients” themselves and require their own unique care needs. The study, published in a recent issue of Qualitative Health Research, assessed the individual stressors that caregivers experience…
12/02/2011 03:00 AM
A comparison of home-birth trends of the 1970s finds many similarities – and some differences – related to current trends in home births. For instance, in the 1970s – as now – women opting to engage in home births tended to have higher levels of education…
12/01/2011 03:00 AM
Nation’s For-Profit Nursing Homes Provide Poor Quality Of Care, Low Staffing
The nation’s largest for-profit nursing homes deliver significantly lower quality of care because they typically have fewer staff nurses than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes. That’s the finding of a new UCSF-led analysis of quality of care at nursing homes around the country. It is the first-ever study focusing solely on staffing and quality at the 10 largest for-profit chains…
11/29/2011 03:00 AM
Mild Cognitive Impairment Distresses Health Of Caregiver
When a person with mild cognitive impairment is agitated or restless, caregivers can expect to find they are more edgy as well. According to recent research conducted at Virginia Tech, the more a caregiver’s day is disrupted by the unsettled behaviors of their loved one, the more they find themselves unable to meet or balance their own home and family work loads…
11/23/2011 03:00 AM
The scoring system government agencies use to rate nursing home quality does not provide an adequate evaluation because they do not take into account the degree of cognitive impairment of their patient populations and whether facilities include a specialized dementia unit according to a new study…
11/16/2011 04:00 AM
Post-Cardiac-Arrest Discharge Improved By Better Understanding Of Neurologic Defects
Delay in initiation of therapeutic hypothermia and delay in return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), evidenced by a palpable pulse or a measurable blood pressure, were both associated with poor neurologic outcomes in post cardiac arrest patients, according to a study presented Nov. 14 at the at the American Heart Association (AHA) scientific sessions in Orlando, Fla…
11/13/2011 03:00 AM
Home Treatment Of Pneumonia Better Than Hospital Care, Groundbreaking Study Reveals
In a breakthrough study published online in The Lancet, researchers from Boston University, Save the Children and the WHO found that young children treated at home for severe pneumonia by Pakistan’s network of “lady health workers” were more likely to get well than children referred to health facilities. The finding could save thousands of children’s lives every year…
11/11/2011 03:00 AM
Home Visits Benefit New Mothers, Newborns
Home nursing visits are as safe and effective as office-based care for initial post-delivery well-baby check-ups, according to medical researchers. “Generally, moms and babies are discharged from the hospital less than 48 hours after delivery,” said Ian Paul, M.D., professor of pediatrics and public health sciences, Penn State College of Medicine…
10/28/2011 09:00 AM
Alzheimer’s Disease Impact On Caregivers, New Survey
According to a new survey, the biggest fear for the majority of family caregivers is their loved one’s general health and physical decline followed by the fear that Alzheimer’s will rob their loved one of the ability to communicate. The survey designed by the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) and Forest Laboratories, Inc…
10/20/2011 05:00 AM
Divorce And Remarriage Affect Beliefs About Who Should Care For Elder Relatives
America’s elderly population will nearly double by 2050, according to a Pew Research report. As baby boomers enter retirement, concern exists as to who will care for them as they age. Traditionally, children have accepted the caregiving responsibilities, but those caregiving roles are becoming blurred as more families are affected by divorce and remarriage than in previous decades…
10/10/2011 10:00 AM
Become A First Aider And Make A Difference
Becoming a first aider is not a big deal, you give a small amount of time to learn knowledge and skill, but it could one day make a difference and save a life…
10/05/2011 05:00 AM
Payer Status Often Determines Nursing Home Hospitalizations
The decision by nursing homes whether or not to treat an ill resident on-site or send them to a hospital are often linked to that person’s insurance status…
10/05/2011 04:00 AM
Long-Term Institutionalization After Hospital Stay A Risk For Medicare Patients
Confirming many elderly patients’ worst fears, a national study has shown that being hospitalized for an acute event, such as a stroke or hip fracture, can lead to long-term institutionalization in a nursing home…
09/29/2011 04:00 AM
Pre-School Non-Parental Childcare Is Not Harmful For Most Children
What type of childcare arrangements do parents choose before their children are 18 months old? Does the choice of childcare affect children’s language skills and mental health at the age of five? These are some of the questions that are explored in a new report prepared by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health as part of a collaborative project with the Ministry of Education and Research…
09/28/2011 05:00 AM
Study Shows The Cost Effectiveness Of Prevention Of Bedsores In Long-Term Care Homes
For all long-term care residents, pressure reduction foam mattresses were cost-effective 82% of the time compared to standard mattresses, with average savings of $115 per resident, the researchers showed. Foam cleansers for incontinence care would be cost-effective 94% of the time compared to soap and water, saving an average of $179 per resident…
09/23/2011 05:00 AM
Emotional And Financial Strain Suffered By Caregivers
Family members or friends caring for aging or disabled individuals in California are under both financial and emotional strain and are likely to face even greater burdens, given recent cuts in state support for programs and services that support in-home care, write the authors of a new policy brief by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research…
09/14/2011 04:00 AM
Study Finds Flu Vaccines For Nursing Home Workers Effective In Reducing Outbreaks
Higher flu vaccination rates for health care personnel can dramatically reduce the threat of flu outbreak among nursing home residents, according to a study published in the October issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America…
09/08/2011 05:00 AM
New Video Gaming Technology Helps To Detect Illness, Prevent Falls In Older Adults
Many older adults lose their independence as their health declines and they are compelled to move into assisted care facilities. Researchers at the University of Missouri and TigerPlace, an independent living community, have been using motion-sensing technology to monitor changes in residents’ health for several years…
08/18/2011 05:00 AM
Two-Thirds Of California Voters Unprepared For Costs Of Growing Older According To Poll
California’s weak economy has voters cutting back on current expenses and largely unable to meet essential future ones, such as the cost of long-term care, according to a new poll from The SCAN Foundation and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research…