Seeking Non Drug-Based Dementia Treatments For 'Behaviors That Challenge' Carers
Posted: Thu Feb 16 01:00:00 PST 2012Alternative therapies for dementia patients need to be researched and applied more consistently if they are to help care organisations improve the well-being of patients and reduce the number of antipsychotic drugs prescribed......
Home-based Dialysis For Kidney Failure Gaining Popularity In Developing Countries
Posted: Mon Feb 06 00:00:00 PST 2012Home-based dialysis treatments are on the rise in both the developing and developed worlds, but developed countries appear to be turning to them less often, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN)......
Drug Errors In Care Homes Very Common, UK
Posted: Fri Jan 13 10:00:00 PST 2012According 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......
Managing And Reducing Costs For Heart Failure Via Home Monitoring
Posted: Thu Jan 05 00:00:00 PST 2012Heart 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......
Holiday Gifts For Caregivers Should Provide Much-Needed Respite, Make Caregiving Easier
Posted: Fri Dec 16 01:00:00 PST 2011With an estimated 65 million caregivers in the U.S., many Americans have at least one on their holiday gift list......
UWM Partners With CareConscious To Deliver TCARE To Family Caregivers
Posted: Sat Dec 10 00:00:00 PST 2011CareConscious, 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......
Remember To Care For The Caregivers This Holiday Season
Posted: Fri Dec 09 02:00:00 PST 2011More 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......
Seniors With Disabilities Struggle To Remain At Home As Public Programs Lose Funding
Posted: Fri Dec 09 00:00:00 PST 2011California'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......
Hospice Caregivers Need Routine Care Interventions
Posted: Fri Dec 02 00:00:00 PST 2011A 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......
Home Births - Then And Now
Posted: Fri Dec 02 00:00:00 PST 2011A 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......
