Memantine appears effective and safe in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease
...at during the study, cognitive tests, reports from caregivers and observations by clinicians all indicated that memantine was beneficial to AD patients. "The benefits of memantine seen in the double-blind phase were again observed when patients treated with placebo were switched to memantine treatment in the op...Review highlights need for improved treatment of depression in elderly stroke patients
...cation, training and goal setting for patients and caregivers are more appropriate, but the challenge now lies in how to provide such service models in a cost-effective manner to the broader stroke population....Study: Exercise helps speed wound healing in older adults
...caregivers. The healing rates of those who weren't caregivers was similar to the healing rates of the non-exerci...groups healed in about 40 days. Wounds among older caregivers took about 20 percent longer to completely heal. "The findings from both studies indicate that the e...Largest study of in-hospital cardiac arrest suggests how to improve outcomes for children and adults
...f Philadelphia. "Our results suggest that hospital caregivers need to carefully tailor their resuscitations to a patient's situation, and not follow a blanket protocol based only on the patient's age." The research appears in the January 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The American H...Improving coping skills benefits family caregivers of hospice patients with cancer
...tional sessions in which hospice nurses taught the caregivers how to cope with distressing patient symptoms, res...he first randomized clinical trials conducted with caregivers of patients near the end of life was funded by the National Cancer Institute and National Institute...A pocketful of help for Alzheimer's sufferers and caregivers
...riends might access information about patients and caregivers via a Web log, a "Buddy Blog," linked to the Pocke...the burden and reduce the isolation of Alzheimer's caregivers who care for their family member at home," said Webbe. Becker brings the technology skil...News briefs from the journal Chest, December 2005
... REPORT HIGHER DEPESSION A new study shows that caregivers of patients residing in institutions suffer from depression more than caregivers of patients residing at home. Researchers from Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, followed 211 ...Heartfelt wake-up call sounded for heart attack survivors
...To better support heart attack survivors and their caregivers in coping with life after a heart attack, additional information including tips sheets, survivor stories and heart-healthy holiday recipes is available on www.mendedhearts.org. Heart Attack Survivors Speak OutThe survey of 518 survivors also tapped i...UNC, Shaw research shows continuity of care, not race, key to better blood pressure control
...d pressure. Racial conformity between patients and caregivers was not a significant factor. "We believe these findings are important because, despite progress in hypertension management, African-Americans still are less likely than whites to know that they have the illness, be treated for it and have their bloo...Brain activity related to processing faces is similar in people with, without autism
...ial interactions, at least from the perspective of caregivers and others involved with them. "The idea is that maybe behavioral methods can help a child with autism approach facial stimuli without anxiety. This is strictly conjecture, but it is a tantalizing possibility," Dichter said. Imaging allows researche...Mental health services underutilized by cancer patients
...longitudinal study of advanced cancer patients and caregivers (MH63892, CA106370; PI: H. Prigerson). Two hundred fifty-one patients with a diagnosis of advanced cancer were interviewed to determine the prevalence of major psychiatric disease, the frequency of discussion of emotional complaints with providers an...Unrelated adults in the home associated with child-abuse deaths
...ng males -- biologic fathers as well as other male caregivers -- to help with child care. Education about shaken baby syndrome, they said, should be offered to both male and female caregivers. Of all 50 states, according to the National Women's Law Center, Missouri ranks last in providing subsidies for child ca...Medication shows promise in the treatment of hyperactivity associated with autism-related disorders
...aches 50 percent," the authors conclude. "However, caregivers should be cautioned about the strong possibility of adverse effects. In addition, practitioners should be prepared to suspend treatment if considerable adverse effects are reported. Further secondary analyses are planned to better delineate individua...New survey reveals older Americans' attitudes toward sleep and healthy aging
...imary caregivers. According to the survey, half of caregivers (50 percent) report that worrying has interfered w...discuss a range of topics including the challenges caregivers face in getting good sleep, the relationship between exercise and sleep, and the unique effects of s...Botox injections effective for treating stroke spasticity
... and to lessen the emotional and financial toll on caregivers and the health care system as a whole." The study found that adverse events related to treatment, such as headache, pain in the arm, or an influenza-like illness, were reported in 7 percent of patients. Brashear said these results show that the treat...Study provides guidelines for treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
...s significantly. "It is important that parents and caregivers not assume that the symptoms of arthritis are simply growing pains," said Dr. Ronald Laxer, co-author of the study, vice president, Clinical and Academic Affairs and staff rheumatologist at SickKids and a professor in the Department of Paediatrics at...Hospitals that follow guidelines save lives
...stand the goals; so by having a system which helps caregivers and patients to remember to pay attention to these priorities in care every time, we insure that the patients get them. In particular, by involving the patients with the discharge document, we increase the chance that the best care will be realized i...Options for Parkinson's patients abundant
...e Parkinson's, and suggest ways patients and their caregivers can initially manage the disease. "These are things the general practitioner might not be as aware of," said Nutt, who co-authored the paper with G. Frederick Wooten Jr., M.D., of the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. "This is...Nation's experts to answer questions about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
...September 22, 2005 To help patients, families and caregivers better understand attention-deficit/hyperactivity ... up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information," said Ty Pennington, host of ABC's Extreme Mak...Implantable chips bear promise, but privacy standards needed
... wander away from home, an identifier that enables caregivers to identify non-verbal or confused patients and determine their health care preferences could be very desirable," he says. But a number of significant legal, ethical and technological hurdles need to be overcome first. "Since my chip contains only m...