Category: Care Givers

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – People who care for their parents outside of their full-time jobs — and are unpaid for their help — experience considerable disruption of their workplace routines.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DANBURY, Connecticut, — Not everyone is aware that summer weather and activities may be challenging for older adults. Senior citizens react differently to hot weather than younger people.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – For decades, articles in research journals and the popular press alike have reported that being a family caregiver takes a toll on a person’s health, boosting levels of inflammation and weakening the function of the immune system.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Building robots that can help people with dementia has been a longtime goal for roboticists. Yet until now, no one has sought to survey informal caregivers, such as family members, about what characteristics and roles these robots should have.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Once a person has lived out most of his life, his last years should be ones of enjoyment, not mistreatment. However, that’s not the case for many people living in nursing facilities.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Chances are, at some point you will be a caregiver to a friend or family member. Providing care and support can be challenging in any circumstance, but caring for a loved one who lives far away presents a unique set of challenges.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Millions of unpaid, family caregivers may be putting their own long-term health and financial security at risk when providing support for relatives or friends who need help taking care of themselves.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Family members who care for loved ones with mental or physical disabilities are at risk for increased stress, which can affect not only their health but also the health of the person in their charge.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Providing care for someone and being responsible for their well-being can be physically, emotionally and financially demanding.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – According to Pew Research, every day, 10,000 Americans turn 65 years old. And that will continue for the next 12 years, reaching 18 percent of the population by 2030. Americans 85 and older will triple in population by 2050.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. — More than 90 percent of people caring for a family member with dementia experience poor sleep, according to new research by the University at Buffalo School of Nursing.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Americans are living longer these days. The number of older adults is expected to reach 73 million by 2030.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Diagnostic and treatment advances are helping patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy—one of nine major types of muscular dystrophy that affects males—live into their 30s and beyond

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR, Mich. — People with diabetes, heart failure and other chronic diseases often live independent lives, without a traditional caregiver.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – (HealthNewsDigest.com) – For families faced with the difficult decision of placing a loved one in a nursing home, a government rating system is often the only source of information to determine which facilities are the best

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – According to a US census report in June of last year, those over the age of 65 grew to 49.2 million in number. This demographic now accounts for 15.2 percent of the total US population.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Medical students and a trained physician share their time and talents to care for the homeless in a comprehensive medical clinic operating out of a local Church….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ALBANY, N.Y. – New findings by a UAlbany research team suggests that nursing homes located in minority neighborhoods and with more low-income patients have notably lower quality of care and worse fiscal stress.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PITTSBURGH, Dec. 6, 2017 – Southwestern Pennsylvania far exceeds national averages for telltale signs of the stress and risk faced by family caregivers

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA—Female Parkinson’s disease patients are much less likely than male patients to have caregivers, despite the fact that caregivers report greater strain in caring for male patients.