http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Several years ago, Wendy Lustbader cut back her counseling, teaching and writing career to spend one year as a caregiver. Her mother-in-law, in the final stages of colon cancer, moved from Florida to be looked after by Lustbader and her husband at their home in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle. http://phys.org/news255754264.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 May 2012 04:20:01 EST news255754264 (PhysOrg.com) -- Robot nannies could diminish child care worries for parents of young children. Equipped with alarms and monitoring capabilities to guard children from harm, a robot nanny would let parents leave youngsters at home without a babysitter. http://phys.org/news252918132.html Electronics Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:02:33 EST news252918132 (PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone confined to a wheelchair or a bed has to deal with numerous complications. Frequently, they suffer from bedsores or decubitus ulcers as physicians call them. Bony prominences, such as the sacrum, coccyx and ischium, are especially endangered spots. Unrelieved pressure can lead to tissue necrosis. Damage can extend into the periosteum and, at the worst, into bones themselves. http://phys.org/news242036645.html Technology Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:00:04 EST news242036645 (PhysOrg.com) -- Fathers stumbling through child-rearing are a familiar sitcom theme. But a growing body of research at the University of California, Berkeley, is challenging the perception that dads are goofy, uncaring or incompetent caregivers. On the contrary, preliminary findings suggest their parenting skills are crucial to their kids' social and academic success, and that teamwork in parenting is the ideal.  http://phys.org/news227780267.html Other Sciences Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:18:15 EST news227780267 The real social costs of cognitive impairments among the elderly are being greatly underestimated without counting care given to older Americans who have not yet reached the diagnostic threshold for dementia. http://phys.org/news220101872.html Medicine & Health Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:24:45 EST news220101872 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nurses are the front-line caregivers to hospital patients, coordinating and providing direct care and delivering it safely and reliably. The goal for any hospital is to ensure that each of its patient-care units has an adequate number of nurses during every shift. http://phys.org/news219567713.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:02:24 EST news219567713 Paid caregivers make it possible for seniors to remain living in their homes. The problem, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study, is that more than one-third of caregivers had difficulty reading and understanding health-related information and directions. Sixty percent made errors when sorting medications into pillboxes. http://phys.org/news217617313.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:15:35 EST news217617313 When studying relationships, psychological scientists have often focused on how couples fight. But how they recover from a fight is important, too. According to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, couples' abilities to bounce back from conflict may depend on what both partners were like as infants. http://phys.org/news217259865.html Medicine & Health Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:20:01 EST news217259865 Patients newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias, and their families, need better guidance from their physicians on how to plan for the patient's progressive loss of ability to handle finances, according to a study led by a physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco. http://phys.org/news217072760.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:59:29 EST news217072760 The aging population, 65 years and older, includes nearly 3.8 million divorced men and women, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Illnesses and end-of-life issues can be particularly difficult for singles without spouses or designated caregivers. A new study from the University of Missouri provides insight into the experiences of exes who care for their former spouses, offering support, assistance with daily tasks and management of health needs. http://phys.org/news216580801.html Other Sciences Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:20:12 EST news216580801 Family caregivers who had not discussed life support measures with critically ill patients took nearly two weeks longer to decide to forego further medical intervention than those who had prior conversations about the issues, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Public Health. They share their findings in a poster presentation at the Society of Critical Care Medicine congress this week in San Diego. http://phys.org/news214658046.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:15:51 EST news214658046 Many trauma patients in Illinois who are transferred to another facility for care are not transported within the state-mandated two-hour window, but the most seriously injured patients appear to reach care more quickly, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Surgery. http://phys.org/news212085560.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:50:01 EST news212085560 If dementia were a country, its economy would rank 18th between Turkey and Indonesia. The total estimated global cost of dementia in 2010 is slated to be $604 billion, according to Alzheimer's Disease International. The sharpest increase in the 35.6 million people across the world with dementia is now occurring in rapidly developing regions -- especially in China. http://phys.org/news208518744.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:10:01 EST news208518744 Better psychological and spiritual support, improved planning of care and stronger relationships with physicians are necessary to improve end-of-life care in Canada, according to a study by a Queen's University professor. http://phys.org/news207401989.html Medicine & Health Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:50:06 EST news207401989 Better psychological and spiritual support, better planning of care and stronger relationships with physicians are necessary to improve end-of-life care in Canada, states a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://phys.org/news205414419.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:33:50 EST news205414419 (AP) -- A new government report says Utah leads the nation in breast-feeding with 9 in 10 Utah mothers trying it and about 6 in 10 sticking with it for at least six months. http://phys.org/news203600525.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:42:14 EST news203600525 An intervention that targeted modifiable stressors in the home of patients with dementia resulted in better outcomes for the patients and their caregivers at 4 months, but not at 9 months, although the caregivers perceived greater benefits, according to a study in the September 1 issue of JAMA. http://phys.org/news202453642.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:00:07 EST news202453642 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Michigan reveals racial and ethnic differences in the emotional attitudes of caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients. http://phys.org/news198177744.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:23:17 EST news198177744 It has long been routine for individual medical professionals to go room-to-room on "rounds" to evaluate hospitalized patients. http://phys.org/news197031734.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:40:02 EST news197031734 Despite grim prognoses and aggressive treatments, cancer patients suffering from malignant gliomas -- primary brain tumors -- often rate their quality of life more optimistically than their caregivers do, according to a new Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine study. http://phys.org/news193599073.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 May 2010 18:31:33 EST news193599073 Family members who provide care to relatives with dementia, but do not have formal training, frequently experience overwhelming stress that sometimes leads to breakdowns or depression, according to Penn State and Benjamin Rose Institute researchers. Interventions to alleviate this stress are not always effective, leaving caregivers isolated to deal with their stresses. http://phys.org/news191158291.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:50:01 EST news191158291 A new study of children in Ukraine has found that for the growing number of HIV-infected children, the quality of care and the relationship between children and their caregivers play an important role in their development. Based on their findings, the researchers highlight the importance of comprehensive but focused intervention efforts to improve these relationships by changing caregivers' working schedules and providing training to enhance the stability and sensitivity of care. http://phys.org/news184569384.html Medicine & Health Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:37:02 EST news184569384 Intensive care unit patients are not the only ones likely to be severely depressed in the aftermath of hospitalization. Family and friends who care for them often suffer emotional and social hardship, too, according to a prospective study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine that is the first to monitor patients and caregivers during a one-year period for predictors of depression and lifestyle disruption. http://phys.org/news184253693.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:00:02 EST news184253693 (PhysOrg.com) -- USF-led research indicates especially elevated risk for African-American men. http://phys.org/news182708055.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:40:01 EST news182708055 The American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued a position paper to guide ethical relationships among patients, physicians, and caregivers. http://phys.org/news182543378.html Medicine & Health Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:30:01 EST news182543378 Caring for an elderly family member can be stressful and can pose health threats to caregiver givers. Steven Zarit, professor and head, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State, received a $3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the effects of caregiving on familial caregivers. He will look at people who care for family members with dementia and how adult day care impacts the stress levels of all individuals involved. http://phys.org/news165584312.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:39:05 EST news165584312 Terminally ill patients and their family caregivers often feel abandoned by their doctors and feel a sense of "unfinished business" with them, according to a new study by an oncologist at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. http://phys.org/news155845906.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:32:19 EST news155845906 (PhysOrg.com) -- Women who take care of Alzheimer's disease patients are more likely than men to take advantage of some support services including transportation, but not seek in-home help. http://phys.org/news146760804.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:53:24 EST news146760804 One quarter of all family caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients succumb to the stress of providing care to a loved one and become hospital patients themselves, according to an Indiana University study published in the November 2008 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. http://phys.org/news145545206.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:13:26 EST news145545206 A study in the August 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during the night for a person with dementia are significantly worse than other older adults. http://phys.org/news138004562.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:36:02 EST news138004562