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Sep 8th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
New York’s 1199 Service Employees International Union, United Healthcare Workers East President George Gresham recently said that the union does not seek funding from the state to resolve issues with home health care workers’ pay but rather legislation that would require home health care agencies to raise employees’ wages, the
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Sep 8th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
A study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during the night for a person with dementia are significantly worse than other older adults. When sleep was measured objectively, and after adjusting for depressive symptoms, age, health condition and education, adults who take care of a person suffering from dementia took longer to fall sleep and had less total sleep than noncaregivers.
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Sep 8th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
A growing body of research suggests that there is a potent way to fight symptoms of depression that doesn’t involve getting a prescription. This potent weapon? Hope. “We’re finding that hope is consistently associated with fewer symptoms of depression. And the good news is that hope is something that can be taught, and can be developed in many of the people who need it,” said Jennifer Cheavens, assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State University.
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Aug 11th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
A report released on Wednesday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City called for more attention to and funding for the role of those participating in home-based care for people with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe’s Herald/AllAfrica.com reports.The report was compiled by the
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Aug 11th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday examined how U.S. nursing homes are “forcing out frail and ill residents” in an effort to “replac[e] them with shorter-term residents likely to bring more revenue.
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Aug 11th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday by a 17-10 vote approved a bill (HR 6126) that would ban the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in nursing home contracts, CQ Today reports (Stern, CQ Today, 7/30).
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Jul 31st 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
In a new twist on the Confucian ideal of filial piety, a study finds that the assistance of daughters-in-law - but not their own children - helps mitigate depression among older people in China. This is particularly true in rural areas, where elders may rely more heavily on family to be support providers.
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Jul 31st 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
Dr Szu-Yao (Zoe) Wang, who recently completed her PhD with UQ’s School of Nursing, found that in Taiwan, where the culture dictates that children should care for their parents, aged-care facilities are becoming more popular. “Family caregivers in Taiwan may experience criticism from a society which has a traditional cultural reticence about placing parents into a nursing home, as such action is considered contrary to filial piety,” Dr Wang said.
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Jul 31st 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
The American Association for Homecare (AAH) opposes the decision by the agency that oversees Medicare to cancel the accreditation deadline for durable medical equipment providers in the 70 metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. designated for Round Two of the Medicare competitive bidding program.
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Jul 31st 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
Witnesses on Wednesday at a Senate Committee on Aging hearing on efforts to improve care for the elderly cited the need for a focus on “person-centered” models, CQ HealthBeat reports. During the hearing, Robert Jenkens, director of the
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