Elderly population may drain resources from paediatrics
...ctancy of parents predicts a generation of elderly carers trying to look after profoundly disabled offspring. Hall concludes that healthcare commissioners must not become complacent about paediatric care just because demographic changes demand that we invest more in the care of older people....New research shows carers at risk of mental illness themselves According t...e researchers to develop new strategies to support carers to prevent them developing further mental illnesses. Schizophrenia is a severe and often enduring ...Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
...ve (taking account of the opinions of patients and carers normally excluded), it enhanced patient understanding of research, it reinforced the principle of informed consent and it was a sensitive and focused way of developing consumer information. HELPING GPS TO HELP THEIR BREAST CANCER PATIENTS General P...First multimedia resource to give patients their own voice
...chools and teaching hospitals for use by patients, carers and health professionals. Dr McPherson believes that it will have just as valuable a role for the health professionals as for patients. "The medical training syllabus has highlighted the need to listen to what patients are saying. But, in practice st...General public fails to recognise early signs of stroke
...ral public, 14 people who had had a stroke, and 10 carers or partners. Participants reported that recognising symptoms was not easy. Many patients who had had a stroke did not initially take their symptoms seriously because the symptoms were not the same as those they had read about. They felt that none of ...National health care access restrictions delay Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, treatment
...ey was conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofres among 739 carers of Alzheimer patients in Spain, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Victoria, Australia. Additional data is being collected from other regions of Australia. All interviews lasted approximately 30 minutes and were conducted via telephone during Ma...A 'first' for Parkinson's disease sufferers
...pline for patients with Parkinson's disease, their carers and healthcare professionals. Impetus for the serv...icines to patients with Parkinson's disease, their carers and any healthcare professional. Typically, queries include: How do over-the-counter preparations o...New research projects major increase in Alzheimer's care costs for England
...ame time, we must stress that support for informal carers in these circumstances would be essential." Rebecca Wood, Chief Executive of the Alzheimer's Research Trust commented: "These figures show the urgent need to find an effective and permanent treatment for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Resea...Economic evaluation shows add-on therapy with Keppra(r) is a cost-effective alternative
...ts on the healthcare system, the patient and their carers due to the chronic nature of the disease. Achieving seizure freedom is of paramount importance to the healthcare system, as well as to patients, because estimates of annual epilepsy related health care costs are two to seven times greater in patients...Wanted: Help through the jungle of hospital care
... Provision of liaison staff to assist patients and carers through traumatic procedures-already introduced in specialties such as oncology and transplant medicine-is viewed by The Lancet as crucial if the status quo is to change. The editorial concludes: 'In its 10-year plan for the National Health Service,...Training carers reduces stroke burden and saves money
Training carers of disabled stroke patients in basic nursing skills improves quality of life and saves money, according to two studies in this week's BMJ. Informal care givers support disabled stroke patients at home but often feel inadequately trained, poorly infor...Dutch study highlights crying as risk factor for child abuse
... substantial, highlighting an urgent need to teach carers of infants how to cope adequately with infant crying, including telling parents that the average 1-month-old baby cries 1.5 h per day, asking questions about crying during routine well-baby visits, and providing additional support services and follow...Problematic behaviour of dementing patients exacerbated
Dutch researcher Marjolein de Vugt has found that carers of dementing family members can exacerbate the dem...ient in an irritated and impatient manner. The way carers deal with these problems causes a lot of restlessness in the dementing patient. In this situation th...Improving child survival in Kenya: Strengthening of district hospitals essential
...ents. She concludes: "It is too easy for staff and carers to lose pride in their institution. Persistence and determination are required from everyone at all levels to regain it. We need to do more than debate the problem; we need to act, and act soon, or it will become increasingly difficult to turn the si...Hiding drugs in food in nursing homes is common
...ges. They carried out interviews with professional carers of 1362 patients in 160 regular nursing homes, and 564 patients in 90 special care units for people with dementia in Norway. If any drugs had been concealed in the food or beverages during the previous seven days without the patient's knowledge or co...Pharmacist review does not keep older people out of hospital
...trol group). The pharmacists educated patients and carers about their drugs, removed out of date drugs, reported possible drug reactions or interactions to the general practitioner, and informed the local pharmacist if a compliance aid was needed. After six months, 178 emergency hospital admissions had occu...NHS Trusts meeting government target on stroke units 'in name only'
...n stroke or rehabilitation; routine involvement of carers in the rehabilitation process; regular programmes of education and training; and information provided to patients and carers. But fewer than half (46%) the units claimed to have all five key features; and 28% had three or fewer. Almost one in five (1...