Keyword "Care"

Gap in Preventive Care Exists among Latinos

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[28/07/2010] Prevention is the new buzzword for health professionals and the new emphasis for containing future health care costs. Yet Latinos have the lowest level of preventive care of all racial and ethnic groups in the nation. Gap in Preventive Care Exists among Latinos - read more

Enhancing Clinical Data Improves Care and Reduces Costs

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[14/07/2010] An interdisciplinary team of University of Missouri (MU) researchers is refining electronic health record (EHR) technology to more efficiently meet increasing health care demands. Enhancing Clinical Data Improves Care and Reduces Costs - read more

Changes to Residential Care System Claimed

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[09/07/2010] Researchers are calling for changes to the UK residential home care system to ensure older people have a ‘home for life’ and are not pushed out to hospitals or nursing homes unnecessarily. Changes to Residential Care System Claimed - read more

Dementia: Family Caregiving Increases Risk for Spouses

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[28/06/2010] Husbands or wives who care for spouses with dementia are six times more likely to develop the memory-impairing condition than those whose spouses don't have it, according to results of a 12-year study. Dementia: Family Caregiving Increases Risk for Spouses - read more

Family Caregiving Is Stress Filled and Isolating

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[02/06/2010] Family members who provide care to relatives with dementia, but do not have formal training, frequently experience overwhelming stress that sometimes leads to breakdowns or depression. Family Caregiving Is Stress Filled and Isolating - read more

Spouses who Care for Partners with Dementia at Risk of Same Fate

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[31/05/2010] Husbands or wives who care for spouses with dementia are six times more likely to develop the memory-impairing condition than those whose spouses don't have it, according to a study. Spouses who Care for Partners with Dementia at Risk of Same Fate - read more

Elderly Lack Decision-Making Capacity at Death

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[21/04/2010] More than one in four elderly Americans lacked the capacity to make their own medical care decisions at the end of life, according to a study of 3,746 people. Elderly Lack Decision-Making Capacity at Death - read more

Hospice: Racial Differences in Utilisation

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[15/03/2010] A new study finds that blacks and Hispanics use hospice for advanced heart failure at a rate of up to 50 percent less than whites, despite a markedly higher rate of incidence of the disease in these populations. Hospice: Racial Differences in Utilisation - read more

Anxiety and Stress Common among Caregivers

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[25/01/2010] Research reveals that negative effects on caregiver’s physical, psychological and social development are highly associated with previous life history between caregiver and care receiver. Anxiety and Stress Common among Caregivers - read more

New Standards for Geriatric Care Management

[16/11/2009] New certified membership standards were introduced for the geriatric care management profession. New Standards for Geriatric Care Management - read more

Multi-Generation Houses: Extended Family’s Comeback

You get on better together – that is the people’s motto who team up in order to live altogether in multi-generation houses. Young and old feel attracted by the idea of living in a vivid house community where neighbours have more in common than a “hello” in the hallway. Multi-Generation Houses: Extended Family’s Comeback - read more

Multi-Generation Houses: Extended Family’s Comeback

Multi-Generation Living: „Residents Benefit from the Different Life Situations“

Living together, helping each other, counteracting solitariness and isolation – these are the ideas which underlay multi-generation projects. However, sometimes it may get tough, for example when different needs and lifestyles of young and old residents collide. REHACARE.de talked to a mediator and sociologist about generation gaps, rules and bobby cars in the hallway. Multi-Generation Living: „Residents Benefit from the Different Life Situations“ - read more

Multi-Generation Living: „Residents Benefit from the Different Life Situations“

Intensive Care Units: Poorly Equipped to Care for the Dying

[05/10/2009] Almost half of the patients who die in intensive care units die within 24 hours, but the environment is not equipped to provide good end-of-life care. Most relatives are nevertheless happy with the care given, shows a Swedish thesis. Intensive Care Units: Poorly Equipped to Care for the Dying - read more

Alzheimer’s: Close Caregiver Relationship May Slow Decline

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[28/09/2009] A study led by Johns Hopkins and Utah State University researchers suggests that a particularly close relationship with caregivers may give people with Alzheimer's disease a marked edge over those without. Alzheimer’s: Close Caregiver Relationship May Slow Decline - read more

The Emotional Cost of Nursing

[03/07/2009] What are the costs of caring? A new project in the School of Psychology explores nurses’ experience of distress and aims to determine if empathy with patients is associated with traumatic experience in nurses. The Emotional Cost of Nursing - read more

Risking Health on Dirty Toilet Floors

[26/06/2009] Nearly a quarter of a million disabled people in the UK are being denied access to public toilet facilities that meet their needs, forcing carers to change disabled loved-ones on dirty toilet floors, new research reveals. Risking Health on Dirty Toilet Floors - read more

Reminder Board for Dementia Patients

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[24/06/2009] In Norway a simple communication system based on a computer screen is being tested, aimed at elderly people who live at home but whose memory is failing. Reminder Board for Dementia Patients - read more

When One Forgets That One Forgets

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[15/06/2009] Early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is important because drugs can decelerate the process in the beginning of the disease. However, the problem is that patients do not recognize their illness. And even medical staff often does not react if the first symptoms appear. When One Forgets That One Forgets - read more

Young Volunteers Help close Social Gap in Cancer Care

[20/05/2009] The Healing Beyond the Body Program is addressing gaps in the social aspect of cancer care by connecting volunteers with patients right in the Margaret Hospital. Young Volunteers Help close Social Gap in Cancer Care - read more

Topic of the Month May: Prospects for Nurses

Many care workers do not even know how many job opportunities they have. Those who do not know what the terms Kinaesthetics, study nurse and family health nursing mean can look it up in the Topic of the Month May. It is about Prospects for Nurses. Topic of the Month May: Prospects for Nurses - read more

Pilots on Rough Sea

Badly nourished children, a person in need of care or pregnant and jobless. Families in difficult situations do not have to be desperate. Specialists with a special further education can help them – the family health nurses. Pilots on Rough Sea - read more

Job Ladder for Nurses

Care and career: this combination might sound quite unusual. However, everyone can adapt competences and climb up the greasy pole by doing further trainings or studies. Professional carers tell how they made it. Job Ladder for Nurses - read more

Respite Care – For a Break from Caring at Home

Respite Care – For a Break from Caring at Home - read more

Topic of the Month March: Respite Care

Topic of the Month March: Respite Care - read more

„Insured people have the right to be well advised” – Gerd Kukla about respite care

Ordinary mortals often become desperate when reading wordings of a law. This also applies to respite care – a financial support of the health insurances for people who care for somebody at home. Gerd Kukla is speaker for services of the nursing care insurance in the Central Federal Association of the German Health Insurance Funds. „Insured people have the right to be well advised” – Gerd Kukla about respite care - read more

Caregivers: Lack of Help

[20/02/2009] Caregivers of children with special health care needs often do not get the respite care they need, according to the findings of a recent study. Caregivers: Lack of Help - read more

Research Finds America's Elderly Suffering Abuse

[29/08/2008] A new study concludes that nearly 13 percent of America's aged citizens suffer some form of abuse. Specifically, nine percent of adults reported they have suffered from verbal mistreatment and 0.2 percent suffer physical mistreatment. Research Finds America's Elderly Suffering Abuse - read more

Nursing Teams to Produce Savings

[25/07/2008] Bringing a community nursing and physiotherapy team into residential care homes for older people improves quality of life and reduces hospital admissions, according to a new evaluation study. Nursing Teams to Produce Savings - read more

New Nursing Care Model Puts Patients, Family in Centre of Care

[09/07/2008] Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood has introduced a new nursing care model that takes a unique approach in caring for patients and their families. New Nursing Care Model Puts Patients, Family in Centre of Care - read more

„28 Days a Year Are not Enough!“ Interview with the Manager of a children’s house, Sabine Schenk, about short-term nursing for children

Having a disabled child often means that parents have to care for them day and night. To give parents a chance to take breath there are institutions in Germany that look after handicapped children around the clock. REHACARE.de talked with Sabine Schenk, manager of the children’s house “Little Long Nose”, about the parents’ bad conscience, application forms and the German Nursing Care Reform 2008. „28 Days a Year Are not Enough!“ Interview with the Manager of a children’s house, Sabine Schenk, about short-term nursing for children - read more

The Big Q against Worries about Quality of Age

[28/04/2008] Eight of out ten people in Britain are very concerned about the quality of care they or their loved ones will get in later life, research for Age Concern reveals. The Big Q against Worries about Quality of Age - read more

Nursing Homes: Less Medication, Less Falls?

[14/01/2008] Selective restraints and reduced medication could reduce nursing home falls says four-year study. Nursing Homes: Less Medication, Less Falls? - read more

Therapy and care products of highest quality

Therapy and care products of highest quality - read more

„Thinking About Nursing Home Care Early"

Getting old healthily at home – this is what everyone would like. However, fate sometimes has different plans. Those who cannot be cared for at home anymore, often have to go into nursing homes. REHACARE.de asked Claus Bölicke how to avoid that a removal into a care home becomes a horror trip for people in need of care and their relatives. „Thinking About Nursing Home Care Early" - read more

„Thinking About Nursing Home Care Early"

Alzheimer 's Disease: Disease Management

[22/09/2006] A pan-European report: ‘Who cares? The state of dementia care in Europe', published by Alzheimer Europe, highlights serious gaps in dementia care. Dementia is a major public health problem. Alzheimer 's Disease: Disease Management - read more

Advice for and by Young Carers

[11/08/2006] Young carers who live in the London Borough of Hounslow get a new advice and information handbook. Advice for and by Young Carers - read more

Multiple Sclerosis Nurses under Threat

[03/04/2006] Multiple Sclerosis (MS) nurse posts are being put under threat by the latest cash crisis. There are currently more than 200 MS nurses in the UK, with around 80 part-funded by the MS Society. Multiple Sclerosis Nurses under Threat - read more

[01/05/2004] The NHS is developing new ways to help older people maintain and improve their health and avoid hospital admission under a new healthcare programme being piloted in nine English primary care trusts. Interim results of the pilot sites have been welcomed by the Department of Health. Evercare: New Health Programme Trial to Improve Older Patient Care - read more