Nearly half of care home workers in northern Italy may be suffering from post-traumatic stress or anxiety following the first wave of the pandemic, new research showed Wednesday.
Sep 30, 2020
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Many of Finland's newly established well-being services counties are looking to cut costs in eldercare services, especially in round-the-clock care and home care. At the same time, the sector suffers from a significant shortage ...
Feb 19, 2024
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How much power do home care workers have to resist being exploited by their employers? For Asian women working in this occupation in California, the answer is shaped by several factors, including filial obligations, cultural ...
Nov 20, 2023
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New research by the University of Nottingham estimates that the care home sector in England was left with up to 19,000 fewer staff following mandatory COVID vaccines being brought in for workers in 2021.
Jun 27, 2023
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Language matters, especially in health care. Clinicians rely on patient characteristics to construct a compelling and accurate picture, such as the age, sex, or symptoms in a 25-year-old woman with lower abdominal pain.
May 31, 2023
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At the end of 2022, the federal government eliminated the "X waiver," a major hurdle to providing addiction treatment, but progress needs to be continued, according to the authors of a new Perspective piece published in the ...
May 1, 2023
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Canadian health economist Robert Evans called them zombies: ideas killed long ago by evidence, but re-emerging from the grave—often in disguise.
Jan 3, 2023
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In the United States, a multi-billion-dollar industry employs nurses and nursing assistants to provide long-term care in facilities such as nursing homes, residential care facilities, and home health agencies. A new study ...
Dec 20, 2022
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Child welfare agencies encounter a higher percentage of children and youth with reported complex trauma exposure than any other system serving children.
Nov 16, 2022
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A new study has shown that psychological first aid, training originally created for people to support others, can help health care workers in care homes improve their own mental well-being.
Nov 4, 2022
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