Category: Care Givers

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s an almost weekly occurrence across the country. Nursing homes face lawsuits over patients who develop severe bedsores that in some cases lead to death.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA—The number of doctors and advance practitioners in the United States who focus on nursing home care rose by more than a third between 2012 and 2015

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) reports that 39.8 million Americans provide care to someone with a disability or illness. And within that number 15.7 million caregivers care for a family member who has some form of dementia.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR, MI – They don’t get pay, recognition, or much of a break. They spend hours a day helping someone who may not even recognize them anymore.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Imagine going to work each day knowing that you may need to comfort a tearful 15-year-old as she reveals the devastating details of abuse by her mother’s boyfriend.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. – The fact that spouses often become caregivers for their ailing partners is quite common in American life – and few roles are more stressful.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new Yale School of Public Health study shows that spouses of a chronically ill mate who feel appreciated for their caretaking efforts experience improved overall well-being both physically and mentally.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) –  “What are the cases that keep you up at night, the ones in which you are unsure what you should do?”

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Medical marijuana is becoming more and more common, especially now that many states in the United States have legalized the sale of the drug.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Taking care of a family member who is aging or ill can be tough—but you don’t have to do it alone.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Older adults with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia are twice as likely to be hospitalized as those who are cognitively healthy.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – COLUMBIA, Mo. (Feb. 10, 2017) ― Currently, more than 34 million people in the U.S.  care for terminally ill love ones….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Approximately 1 million Americans are affected by Parkinson’s disease, a progressive motor system disorder

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Vienna, 6 December 2016 – The biomarker PD-1, a protein, could potentially be used to predict survival or disease-free survival of lung cancer patients who have had the tumour surgically removed.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – As the baby boomer generation—around 78 million people born between 1946 and 1964—reaches what was once considered its “golden years,”….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. — Women’s long-term participation in the workforce faces a threat from the growing need for elder care.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2016 — It is estimated that there are more than 60 million unpaid American caregivers

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – There are more than 34 million informal caregivers today, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – While the number of senior living communities continues to grow in the United States, so does the amount of stress on their caregivers

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CINCINNATI, Nov. 30, 2015  — Bringing acutely ill children home from the hospital can overwhelm family caregivers and affect a child’s recovery and long-term health