From McKnight’s – Some groups of elderly people actually report being more afraid of death if they have a strong family network of caregivers. Researchers at the University College London interviewed roughly 1,000 people from a wide variety of ethnic backgroundsÛÓincluding Indian, Pakistani, black Caribbean, Chinese and whiteÛÓfor their study...
Tag: caregiving
Those Caring for a Spouse with Dementia More Likely to Develop Dementia Themselves
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...
Update from the National Council on Aging: Sheehy Awesome / Sebelius Lame
I am attending my first National Council on Aging conference in Chicago. Made it in time to hear Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speak. In a nutshell she was there because it is a crucial week in health care reform so she was talking the party line. Remember...
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...
Seniors Can Not Recall Drugs Prescribed During Hospitalization
According to a recent study by researchers at the University of Colorado nearly 9 in 10 hospitalized seniors could not name a single take-as-needed medication prescribed during a hospital stay. 88% of hospitalized seniors could not recall any medications they had been prescribed. Patients were given a list of medications...
Asian Perspectives on Aging
I came across an interesting article on an Asian viewpoint of nursing homes. We often think of the Asian culture as one who takes care of their elders. Some of that is shifting as two family incomes come more into play and their societal life gets as hectic as those...
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...
Race and Nursing Homes
According to a study to be published in a medical journal Health Services Research, black nursing home residents in Maryland and Virginia are more likely than white residents to be sent to hospitals for dehydration, poor nutrition, bedsores and other ailments because of a gap in the quality of in-house...
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...