Unpaid End-of-Life Caregivers
Unpaid caregivers provide nearly twice as many hours of care per week as paid caregivers according to the study “A
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Unpaid caregivers provide nearly twice as many hours of care per week as paid caregivers according to the study “A
Read more(By Michael Ollove for The Pew Charitable Trusts/Stateline) Jeannee Parker Martin’s mother will be 99 this year, and she still
Read moreMany people think dementia is solely a condition that causes memory loss; however, some common features of dementia are: Hallucinations,
Read more(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News) In 2012, Parkview Healthcare Center’s history of safety violations led California regulators to
Read moreTwo Texas A&M University economists, James W. Mjelde and Rebekka M. Dudensing are speaking with other researchers and rural transportation
Read moreBritish neuroscientists have developed a computer game shown to improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of
Read moreThere is a new type of caregiver for dying patients and their families: death doulas or end-of-life doula. Read article
Read more(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) More than 60 percent of cancer patients are older adults — and that
Read moreAs we get older, it helps to tickle the noggin’ with trivia. Here’s a pop quiz to see what you
Read more(By Andrea Hsu for NPR) Intuitively, we tend to think of forgetting as failure, as something gone wrong in our
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