Two new American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statements led and co-authored by Lisa Kitko, Penn State College of Nursing associate dean for graduate education and associate professor, articulated that heart failure-related ...
Aug 3, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic places a particular focus on older persons. Therefore, it comes as a surprise that the high-risk group of around 2.6 million care-dependent older persons in Germany who receive care at home, predominantly ...
Jul 21, 2020
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There's no app to help coax a person with dementia to take a shower if they don't want to, but family caregivers wish they had that kind of support.
Jul 14, 2020
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Infancy is a sensitive developmental period that presents opportunities and challenges for caregivers to feed their infants in ways that support healthy growth and development. A new integrative review examined evidence related ...
Jul 14, 2020
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For decades, family caregiving has been thought to create a type of chronic stress that may lead to significant health risks or even death, alarming potential caregivers and presenting a guilt-ridden obstacle for those needing ...
Jul 13, 2020
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Stacy Ellingen, 34, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, lost two of the three caregivers she depends on to dress, shower, eat and use the bathroom. The caregivers—both University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ...
Jun 23, 2020
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Researchers from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University shared promising results from a recent study of videoconferencing-inspired stress reduction of distance caregivers of people with ...
Jun 19, 2020
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Family caregivers often experience fatigue and sleep problems, which can negatively influence the effectiveness of the care they provide to people with dementia, according to a University at Buffalo study.
Jun 19, 2020
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Family members are being trained to administer drugs to end-of-life patients at home and in care homes in the UK, in case doctors or nurses are not available to give injections when needed. And new palliative care drugs are ...
Jun 17, 2020
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An educational video about hospice care can provide valuable information for patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers, improve perceptions of this quality form of care at the end of life, and increase its use. These ...
Jun 8, 2020
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