Dementia Sufferers More Likely To Die At Home Than In Nursing Homes
Posted: Wed May 16 00:00:00 PDT 2012A new study from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University has found that, at time of death, individuals with dementia are more likely to be living at home than in a nursing home. This contradicts the commonly held view that most individuals with dementia in the United States eventually move to nursing homes and die there......
Study Finds Accreditation Improves Safety Culture At Nursing Homes
Posted: Tue May 01 00:00:00 PDT 2012Accredited nursing homes report a stronger resident safety culture than nonaccredited facilities, according to a new study published in the May 2012 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. The study shows that senior managers at more than 4,000 facilities across the U.S......
Improved Survival From Intensive Kidney Dialysis Compared To Conventional Dialysis
Posted: Fri Apr 27 01:00:00 PDT 2012Patients suffering with end-stage renal disease could increase their survival chances by undergoing intensive dialysis at home rather than the conventional dialysis in clinics. A new study by Lawson Health Research Institute shows the potential of more intensive dialysis completed in a home setting......
Care Home Admission More Likely For Women Due To Their Partner's Age
Posted: Thu Apr 19 00:00:00 PDT 2012New research published in the journal Age and Aging has investigated why women are 40% more likely to be admitted in to a care home than men. The study found that women were often married to older partners who cannot provide care for them due to their age-related frailty......
Deterioration In A Husband's Health Likely When Wife Suffers Breast Cancer
Posted: Wed Apr 18 00:00:00 PDT 2012Caring for a wife with breast cancer can have a measurable negative effect on men's health, even years after the cancer diagnosis and completion of treatment, according to recent research. Men who reported the highest levels of stress in relation to their wives' cancer were at the highest risk for physical symptoms and weaker immune responses, the study showed......
The Majority Of California's Medi-Cal Caregivers Live In Or Near Poverty
Posted: Fri Apr 13 00:00:00 PDT 2012The demand for caregivers is growing rapidly as California's population ages, but the majority of state's Medi-Cal caregivers earn poverty or near-poverty wages and have poor access to health care and food, a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has found......
Analysing Pre-Nursing Home Hospitalization Of Alzheimer's disease Patients And Medicare Costs
Posted: Thu Apr 12 00:00:00 PDT 2012Among the key findings of a novel analysis of Alzheimer's disease-related Medicare expenditures, is that the federal insurer faces particularly high payments for hospitalization during the period between when patients are first diagnosed and when they enter long-term care......
Relatives Of Cancer Patients At Increased Risk For Cardiovascular Disease
Posted: Fri Apr 06 00:00:00 PDT 2012A current study shows that the risk for coronary heart disease and stroke increases by almost thirty per cent in a person whose partner has cancer. The cause is probably the negative stress to which the cancer patient's relative is exposed. We know that the relatives of chronically ill patients, especially cancer patients, have an increased risk of mental illness and depression......
Infants' Faces Evoke Species-Specific Patterns Of Brain Activity In Adults - Evidence Of Basis For Caregiving Impulse
Posted: Tue Mar 20 00:00:00 PDT 2012Distinct patterns of activity - which may indicate a predisposition to care for infants - appear in the brains of adults who view an image of an infant face - even when the child is not theirs, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Germany, Italy, and Japan......
Coping And Quality Of Life For The Caregivers Of Alzheimer's Patients Enhanced By A Simple, Low-Cost Yoga Program
Posted: Thu Mar 15 00:00:00 PDT 2012For every individual who's a victim of Alzheimer's - some 5.4 million persons in the United States alone - there's a related victim: the caregiver......
