I have spoken about the affects of care giving on caregivers, the medical and emotional toll and even the fact that many caregivers die before the one they are taking care of dies. So now comes this study from Utah State University that shows that people who care for a...
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Preventing Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Caregivers are known to care for others before they take care of their own needs. In fact, as I tell people in my keynotes, a high majority of caregivers die before the ones they take care of so t aking care of yourself must be your first priority. Families of...
Caregiver Datbase Flawed According to LA Times
Two decades ago Congress set out to stop dangerous or incompetent caregivers from crossing state lines and landing in trouble by ordering that a national database be established allowing hospitals to check for disciplinary actions taken anywhere in the country against health professionals. The long-awaited repository is missing serious disciplinary...
Elder Abuse – Families Often Responsible
We often think of abuse of our elders in terms of physical abuse and often associate that with nursing homes. But abuse can also be verbal, financial exploitation. And most abuse comes from family caregivers themselves. The latest study in the British Medical Journal reports that more than half of...
Residents Out of Wheelchairs
There is a group I just stumbled upon called the GROW Coalition. GROW stands for ÛÏGetting Residents Out Of Wheelchairs.Û It is the goal of the GROW Coalition that residents residing in nursing homes use regular seating devices in situations where sitting in a regular chair is considered the norm...
Paying for Long Term Care
The majority of baby boomers have not planned accordingly for long-term care expenses and mistakenly believe they have the resources to cover such care. According to a survey released earlier this week by AmericaÛªs Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) among boomers nearing or at age 60, only 25% say they are...
Grandma Gets Abused in Japan
Thousands of elderly people are abused at home by relatives in Japan, news reports said Saturday, as the country faces a rapidly aging population. More than 12,600 cases of elderly abuse were reported in 2006, almost all of them at home, according to the Health and Welfare Ministry survey released...
Blacks likelier to live in poor-quality nursing homes
A new report in the September/October issue of Health Affairs, finds that 60% of blacks in nursing homes ended up in just 10% of the facilities ÛÓ typically ones that had been cited for quality problems. Interestingly the south was the least segregated around this issue. And that is consistent...
Medical Tourism in the Nursing Home Industry
A “small but steadily growing number” of U.S. residents “are moving across the border” into Mexican nursing homes, which provide care at a “fraction” of the price of U.S. facilities, reports USA Today. About 40,000 to 80,000 U.S. retirees currently live in Mexico, but no data exist on the number...
Medical Illiteracy
A new study of patients ages 65 and older were more likely to die within six years of receiving written medical instructions than those who easily understood their caregivers, despite the health conditions at the outset. The study was done by a team at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine,...