Novel program enhances dementia caregivers' quality of life
... can significantly improve the quality of life for caregivers of people with dementia, new research published No...dy. "It also underscores the substantial cost that caregivers face--financially, physically, spiritually and emotionally--and helps to illustrate why caregiving r...GSA confers 2006 M. Powell Lawton Award to University of Washington's Teri
...), mainly by using the strategy of training family caregivers in appropriate problem solving and behavior manage... therefore be pharmacological, or involve teaching caregivers to better accept or adapt to these problems. Teri's work has demonstrated that caregiver training c...Counseling Alzheimer's caregivers postpones the nursing home
...The study found that the counseling program helped caregivers gain more support from family and friends, alleviating depression among caregivers and helping them understand and tolerate the memory and behavioral problems that accompany Alzheimer...Counseling for spouses keeps Alzheimer's patients out of nursing homes
...demy of Neurology. Researchers studied 406 spouse caregivers in New York, NY, over a 19-year period. Half of the spouses received usual care, while the other half received enhanced counseling and support, including six sessions of individual and family counseling, support group participation, and availability ......s at baseline, three, and six months. In addition, caregivers filled out questionnaires. Researchers concluded that increased PM exposure in these children was associated with greater symptoms, rescue medication, and functional limitation. Lung Disorder in Premature Babies Shows Presence After Three Years (...The Gerontological Society of America awards new Hartford Doctoral Fellowships
...ela Kovacs, PhD Dissertation topic: "Long distance caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: Sources of support and bereavement adjustment." Rajean Moon, MS University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Dissertation chair: Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD Dissertation topic: "National policy diffusion of cost sharing in the...Tipsheet: Focus on gait training, pain relief, pressure ulcers and hearing aid training
... parkinsonism (PWP). Supporting the functioning of caregivers is vital for the successful medical management of individuals with chronic illness and disability. Associations between perceived caregiver burden and physical, cognitive, and functional impairments were assessed with well-established tools for PWP. ...Antipsychotic medications used to treat Alzheimer's patients found lacking
...dividual needs, and consulted with the patient and caregivers when determining if and when a patient should discontinue. Patients represented a broad range of ages (average age was 80 years), diversity, level of disability and cognitive difficulties. "In many cases, the moderate to severe thinking and behavio...Short episodes of manic symptoms may indicate bipolar disorder in some youth
...t were of short duration. Participants and their caregivers were interviewed to assess symptoms, family history and socio-economic status using a host of well-accepted clinical evaluation tools. Data were evaluated to determine differences among the subtypes of bipolar disorder in intensity of symptoms, funct...New studies in the journal Sleep focus on helping children, women sleep better
...lifornia, San Diego, focused on 40 elderly spousal caregivers of patients with Alzheimer disease, who participat...ciated with norepinephrine levels, indicating that caregivers with greater time spent awake during the night had elevated plasma norepinephrine concentrations. I...Stroke survivors and caregivers to benefit from Kent State study
... stroke onset, making support from family or other caregivers critical to the recovery process. For those thrust...ent many challenges--and the stress experienced by caregivers can adversely affect the stroke survivor's quality of life. While stroke can happen at any time in...Very low birth weight linked to reduced quality of life in pre-school children
...re boys. 252 mothers, 33 fathers and three other caregivers took part in the questionnaire-based study, which was carried out using a Mandarin language version of a quality of life instrument developed in the Netherlands. The 118 very low birth weight children were less than 1500g (three pounds and five oun...Survey: Caregivers of people with mental illness say treatment disruption has serious consequences
...cording to results from an international survey of caregivers ofindividuals with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder...s a survey of 982 family caregivers, including 200 caregivers from the United States. "One in 17 Americans suffer from serious mental illnesses worldwide. When y...Violence in the home leads to higher rates of childhood bullying
...g. "Children learn from seeing what their primary caregivers do. They are very attuned and very observant about what goes on in a household," said Dr. Nerissa Bauer, lead author of the study and a former UW pediatrician who is now an assistant professor of pediatrics at Indian and Riley Children's Hospital. "...Katie Lee Joel joins Kidney Friendly Comfort Foods program
...and sharing these recipes with kidney patients and caregivers is a way to honor his memory. I want patients to know that cooking kidney friendly foods is not a sentence to boring food, it just means being creative," said Katie Lee Joel. The 2006 edition of the Kidney Friendly Comfort Foods cookbook focuses on ...M. D. Anderson teaches the art of aromatherapy to soothe and heal
... to answer those questions for cancer patients and caregivers undergoing treatment at M. D. Anderson Cancer Cent...e institution that focuses on helping patients and caregivers deal with the non-medical issues of living with cancer, and is the first complementary therapy facil...Two UCSF faculty named fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
...der adults with neurological impairments and their caregivers manage disease to improve overall function and quality of life. Her work has contributed to the body of knowledge regarding how sleep and circadian rhythms are affected by chronic progressive neurological diseases and has tested interventions to impr...Sociologists dissect doctor-patient dialogue
...the need for fruitful interactions between primary caregivers and their patients. Several schools now require students to pass an exam evaluating interaction skills. Meanwhile, medical residency programs are beginning to recruit residents with at least some communication training. The book targets sociologist...Study finds safety intervention increases use of child safety restraints in shopping carts
...rding the status of shopping cart restraint use as caregivers approached the store checkout areas. The increase in safety-restraint use in shopping carts was greater in the intervention stores than in the control group of stores. In the intervention stores, the percentage of correct restraint use increased fr...Strategies that teach a caregiver to manage a loved one's illness also helps in coping with death
... caregiving process, sought to determine who among caregivers were at risk for complicated grief and depression ... depression after death. Twenty percent of the caregivers in the study experienced symptoms of complicated grief after their loved ones died. Most of these di...