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Mashup Score: 18
After spending years as her mom’s full-time caregiver, one woman shares her experience transitioning back to a more “normal life.”
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Mashup Score: 0What Is Most Important to Family Caregivers When Helping Patients Make Treatment-Related Decisions: Findings from a National Survey - 7 month(s) ago
Prioritizing patient values—who/what matters most—is central to palliative care and critical to treatment decision making. Yet which factors are most important to family caregivers in these decisions remains understudied. Using data from a U.S. national survey of cancer caregivers (N = 1661), we examined differences in factors considered very important by caregivers when partnering with patients in cancer treatment decision making by cancer stage and caregiver sociodemographics. Fifteen factors were rated on a 4-point Likert-scale from ‘very unimportant’ to ‘very important.’ Descriptive statistics were used to characterize caregiver factors and tabulate proportions of importance for each. Generalized linear mixed effect modeling was used to examine the importance of factors by cancer stage, and chi-square analyses were performed to determine associations between caregiver sociodemographics and the five most commonly endorsed factors: quality of life (69%), physical well-being (68%), le
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Mashup Score: 10Daughter Shares Ups and Downs of Dementia Caregiving - 7 month(s) ago
What Annette Franqui wishes she’d known about taking care of her mom
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Mashup Score: 6Caregiver burden in a home hospital versus traditional hospital: A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial - 7 month(s) ago
Click on the article title to read more.
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Mashup Score: 14Top 3 Excuses From Siblings Who Don't Help With Caregiving - 8 month(s) ago
When one sibling does all the caregiving for aging parents, it often breeds tension and resentment. Take an objective look at your siblings’ reasons for staying at arm’s length and learn how you can get everyone on the same page.
Source: www.agingcare.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 15Six Tips for Long-Distance Caregiving - 8 month(s) ago
Read, download and share the Six Tips for Long-Distance Caregiving infographic.
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Mashup Score: 13Helping former caregiving dad regain his sense of purpose - 8 month(s) ago
When a caregiver experiences loss, it can be difficult to get back on track. “Minding our Elders” columnist Carol Bradley Bursack lists programs that can help get them involved again.
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Mashup Score: 0Leave a 👍 to help this message reach more people! #myelomamonday #cancer #caregiver #patientadvocacy - 10 month(s) ago
We asked patients and caregivers about their myeloma treatment experiences, here are some things they shared.
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Mashup Score: 4Growing DTC for Health Beyond the Rx - the New Health/Care at Home - HealthPopuli.com - 1 year(s) ago
As our homes and health care services continue to converge, we can see signposts of direct-to-consumer strategies from the pillbox (where DTC is a mature thing) to clinical care in peoples’ hands (and on their preferred technology platforms). Some examples this week make this point, which taken together demonstrate the portfolio of ways more people – as health consumers and caregivers – can…
Source: HealthPopuli.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Christy McDonald: Local caregivers share stories of love, struggle in our new series - 1 year(s) ago
It’s almost impossible for my girlfriends and I to find a time to get together. The demands of life are all consuming, from kids to jobs to aging parents. But when we connect and start talking, the reality of what we all carry comes spilling out.
Source: WDIVCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
RT @LEAD_Coalition: "Normal Life" After Full-Time #Caregiving: What It Looks Like for Me https://t.co/eRd6OxM4NX by @KelseyRamos @Alz_HU…