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Drug Errors In Care Homes Very Common, UK
According to a study conducted by the University of Warwick and the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE), a new electronic medication management system developed in the UK for nursing and residential homes, has been demonstrated to considerably lower the number of drug administration errors...

Managing And Reducing Costs For Heart Failure Via Home Monitoring
Heart failure affects 5.8 million people in the U.S. alone and is responsible for nearly 1 million hospitalizations each year, most resulting from a build-up of body fluid in the lungs and other organs due to the heart's inability to pump effectively...

Holiday Gifts For Caregivers Should Provide Much-Needed Respite, Make Caregiving Easier
With an estimated 65 million caregivers in the U.S., many Americans have at least one on their holiday gift list...

UWM Partners With CareConscious To Deliver TCARE To Family Caregivers
CareConscious, a North Carolina-based start-up company, has completed a license agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Foundation to bring care management tools to family caregivers across the country through a highly customizable Internet program...

Remember To Care For The Caregivers This Holiday Season
More five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia and over 70 percent of those individuals are cared for in their homes by a spouse or other family member...

Seniors With Disabilities Struggle To Remain At Home As Public Programs Lose Funding
California's low-income seniors with disabilities are struggling to remain in their homes as public funding for long-term care services shrinks and may be slashed even further, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research conducted with support from The SCAN Foundation...

Hospice Caregivers Need Routine Care Interventions
A study led by the University of Kentucky researcher Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles found that hospice family caregivers are "second order patients" themselves and require their own unique care needs. The study, published in a recent issue of Qualitative Health Research, assessed the individual stressors that caregivers experience...

Home Births - Then And Now
A comparison of home-birth trends of the 1970s finds many similarities - and some differences - related to current trends in home births. For instance, in the 1970s - as now - women opting to engage in home births tended to have higher levels of education...

Nation's For-Profit Nursing Homes Provide Poor Quality Of Care, Low Staffing
The nation's largest for-profit nursing homes deliver significantly lower quality of care because they typically have fewer staff nurses than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes. That's the finding of a new UCSF-led analysis of quality of care at nursing homes around the country. It is the first-ever study focusing solely on staffing and quality at the 10 largest for-profit chains...

Mild Cognitive Impairment Distresses Health Of Caregiver
When a person with mild cognitive impairment is agitated or restless, caregivers can expect to find they are more edgy as well. According to recent research conducted at Virginia Tech, the more a caregiver's day is disrupted by the unsettled behaviors of their loved one, the more they find themselves unable to meet or balance their own home and family work loads...

Revision Of Federal Nursing Home Quality Reporting System: Nursing Home Quality Scorecards Don't Tell The Whole Story
The scoring system government agencies use to rate nursing home quality does not provide an adequate evaluation because they do not take into account the degree of cognitive impairment of their patient populations and whether facilities include a specialized dementia unit according to a new study...

Post-Cardiac-Arrest Discharge Improved By Better Understanding Of Neurologic Defects
Delay in initiation of therapeutic hypothermia and delay in return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), evidenced by a palpable pulse or a measurable blood pressure, were both associated with poor neurologic outcomes in post cardiac arrest patients, according to a study presented Nov. 14 at the at the American Heart Association (AHA) scientific sessions in Orlando, Fla...

Home Treatment Of Pneumonia Better Than Hospital Care, Groundbreaking Study Reveals
In a breakthrough study published online in The Lancet, researchers from Boston University, Save the Children and the WHO found that young children treated at home for severe pneumonia by Pakistan's network of "lady health workers" were more likely to get well than children referred to health facilities. The finding could save thousands of children's lives every year...

Home Visits Benefit New Mothers, Newborns
Home nursing visits are as safe and effective as office-based care for initial post-delivery well-baby check-ups, according to medical researchers. "Generally, moms and babies are discharged from the hospital less than 48 hours after delivery," said Ian Paul, M.D., professor of pediatrics and public health sciences, Penn State College of Medicine...

Alzheimer's Disease Impact On Caregivers, New Survey
According to a new survey, the biggest fear for the majority of family caregivers is their loved one's general health and physical decline followed by the fear that Alzheimer's will rob their loved one of the ability to communicate. The survey designed by the National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) and Forest Laboratories, Inc...