“A Bittersweet Season” by New York Times reporter Jane Gross chronicles the author’s challenges negotiating the labyrinthine world of elderly care, after she became caregiver to her fiercely independent but aging mother.
Here are five ways to better ensure your elderly loved ones are getting the best care possible at the end of their lives.
Gransnet, a social networking site for Britain’s 14m grandparents, aims to counter deeply ingrained ageism Back in 1965, the chief executive of Elizabeth Arden wrote in Forbes magazine: “We don’t want to be connected with older women.” Not much has changed. Today there are more than 20 million Britons over 50; yet, despite our numbers, we can be forgiven for feeling that we are ever so slightly …
Dr. Hillary Lum was undecided about her medical specialty until her work in the geriatric track of her residency helped her decide she wanted to focus on caring for the elderly.
I am one of the millions of Americans who currently take care of an elderly parent. It’s almost impossible to get through the red tape required to qualify for services. Can you imagine how much harder this will be when the Republicans start to hand out …
“A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents — and Ourselves” (Knopf), by Jane Gross: Decades after screen star Bette Davis famously declared that “growing old is not for sissies,” Estelle Gross expanded on the woes of the ailing aged with her lament that people live too long and die too slowly.
RALEIGH Elderly residents who faced losing millions in services as legislators cut the state budget won a reprieve last week. State legislators working on the heath and human services budget decided to restore money that helps counties pay for elderly care …
TRENTON — A free, day-long course on caring for the elderly is being offered by the Burlington County Sheriff’s Department.
Fire safety procedures at a care home for the elderly where an electrical fire claimed the lives of 14 residents were “systematically and seriously defective”, a fatal accident inquiry has ruled. In a 1,000 page report published after Scotland ’s longest …
Nurs Health Sci. 2011 Mar 15;
Rejeh N, Heravi-Karimooi M, Vaismoradi M
The purpose of this study was to explore Iranian nursing students’ perspectives regarding caring for elderly patients. A qualitative design, based on the content analysis approach, was used to collect and analyze the perspectives of 25 senior nursing students who were providing care for elderly patients in the medical and surgical wards of two teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. After using purposeful sampling to select the participants, semistructured interviews were held in order to collect the data. During the data analysis, two main themes and six subthemes emerged. The first theme was “the barriers to caring for elderly patients”, with the subthemes of “policies and rules of the organization”, “a lack of educational preparation”, and “an inappropriate physical environment”, and the second theme was “the facilitators to caring for elderly patients”, with the subthemes of “religion and cultural norms”, “role modeling”, and “previous exposure to elderly patients”. This study informs international audiences of the factors that influence the quality of care of elderly patients so that strategies can be devised in order to prepare nursing students to meet the physical and psychological needs of elderly patients.
