...The Effects of Palliative Care on Other Family Members Tonya Kerney McKendree University The Effects of Palliative Care on Other Family Members Family members of patients who are in palliative care experience emotions including hopelessness, guilt, and sadness. They are often physically exhausted and may become ill themselves. Many experience depression. Family Caregiver Alliance (as cited in McMillan et al., 2006) has estimated that over fifty million Americans assist a family member with a disability or illness on a regular basis. Of these ill patients, many require extensive care from family members. Caregivers of cancer patients especially experience very high stress levels. They are often burdened with physical exhaustion, emotional distress, and financial worries from loss of time at work to care for their loved one (Emanuel & Emanuel, as cited in McMillan et al., 2006). The purpose of the study I reviewed was “to determine whether hospice plus a coping skill training intervention improved family caregivers’ quality of life, burden, coping, and mastery, compared with hospice plus emotional support and usual hospice care (McMillan et al., 2006, p. 214)”. To participate in the study, caregivers had to be caring for adult cancer patients, both had to give consent, both had to be able to read and comprehend English, both had to have achieved at least a sixth grade education, and both had to achieve a minimun score of seven on the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire...
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...been the responsibility of family members and was provided within the extended family home. Increasingly in modern societies, elder care is now being provided by state or charitable institutions. The reasons for this change include decreasing family size, the greater life expectancy of elderly people, the geographical dispersion of families, and the tendency for women to be educated and work outside the home. Although these changes have affected European and North American countries first, it is now increasingly affecting Asian countries also.[1] According to Family Caregiver Alliance, the majority of family caregivers are women: “Many studies have looked at the role of women and family caregiving. Although not all have addressed gender issues and caregiving specifically, the results are still generalizable [sic] to women because they are the majority of informal care providers in this country. Consider: • Estimates of the percentage of family or informal caregivers who are women range from 59% to 75%. • The average caregiver is age 46, female, married and working outside the home earning an annual income of $35,000. • Although men also provide assistance, female caregivers may spend as much as 50% more time providing care than male caregivers.”” [2] In most western countries, elder care facilities are residential family care homes, freestanding assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). A Family Care Home is a residential...
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...CAREGIVERS AND THEIR WELL BEING Organization: Topical General Purpose: To inform Specific purpose: I would like to inform my audience what it involves to be a caregiver and the affects on their quality of life. Central Idea: To really understand the needs of a caregiver and the affects of their loved ones trauma on their quality of life, we must learn the role of the caregiver, the impact the trauma has on their lives, and the resources out there to help prevent a diminished quality of life. Introduction I. I. Attention Getter: I remember the day I got the news about my husband’s injuries. All I could think was “is he alive? Will he be ok? What can I do to help him get back on his feet?” Nothing prepared me for what would follow or how my life would take a backseat. II. II. Relevance: According to the Family Caregiver Allegiance, evidence shows that most caregivers are ill prepared for their role and provide care with little or no support, while suffering from poor health themselves.1 III. III. Credibility: As a caregiver myself, I have learned to readjust to the new life my husband and I have acquired. With help, I’ve realized how much of the tragedy had affected me and my health and the necessary steps to take and better myself so I can continue to provide him quality care. IV. IV. Central Idea: To really understand the needs of a caregiver and the affects of their loved ones trauma on their quality of life, we must learn the role of the caregiver, the impact the...
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...sustainable system to take bold. Meanwhile, we can each support our local community, just as we need healthy cells to have healthy organs, we need healthy neighborhoods and towns. Eiinlish |, Piirn iple^ of Fiiwncidl Permatullure. Stiljri Real Channel websile. hltp://soldri.com/bloR/íp-1730. Accessed Oi:tober 20. 2008, t idl Permdcullure. Eironomits on our terms. www,financial()ermaculture.org/ definition. Aicessed December 2. 2008. Tran'.ition Towns WIKI. http://iransitiontown5.()rg. Accessed tiïecember 31, 2008. Shorts headaches or stomachaches, and other health problems. Caregivers need to take care of themselves before tbey become physically ill or exhausted. They need to make self-care a priority before they crash. In the article "Caring for Family, Caring for Yourself," Jane E. Brody makes several excellent suggestions for selfcare and refers caregivers to groups like Family Caregiver Alliance {www.caregiver.org) for additional support. Eating nutritious meals and getting enough sleep are basic. If sleep is interrupted throughout the night, taking naps while the relative sleeps during...
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...Attachment, in dictionary terms, means affection, fondness, or sympathy for someone or something. In psychotherapy, attachment theory refers to how those attachments impact human interpersonal relations. Attachment theory was first conceptualised by John Bowlby, a psychoanalyst who dedicated his time to studying the affectional bonds which form between a child and his primary caregiver. In Segal and Jaffe (2013), the affectional bond is simply but realistically defined as one's first love relationship. Bowlby referred to attachment as a lasting psychological connectedness between human beings. This bond is initially formed by the first attachment figure a person comes across in life. This is in most cases is the mother. In other situations, it may be a father, or where a child is orphaned or put in foster care, it could vary. It refers to anyone who remains in a central role in a child's life for at least the first three to five years. This period is crucial because it is when a child's brain rapidly develops. Bowlby (1984) says that attachment behaviour is most active and overt before the age of three but the need for attachment figures remains throughout life. Bretherton (1985) found that after three, it is less frequent and noticeable as the child gains increased abilities to protect itself and coping skills. Attachment behaviour is however more noticeable during times of exceptional stress. According to Segal and Jaffe (2013), an attachment bond shapes an infant's brain...
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...There are many caregivers who will also handle respite care. Respite care is the term for short-term care that is professional help. The respite caregiver usually will COM to your home and get to meet and greet the family and the patient that they will be tending for. As a respite caregiver, they will learn the everyday house, and where all the treatment or medications are stored. A respite caregiver is offered by local services such a non-profit organization, church, religious groups, or a community organization that wants to give back to others whom are in need. There is also another respite service that is usually specialized and can stay for a few days or as long as several weeks. This can give the caregiver some time to hand things like go on a vacation or have some ‘me’ for themselves. With short term care Medicaid and Medicare may pay you for some of the cost of helping a family member directly in receiving respite care. Caregiving Policy: (2 Pages)...
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...Research and Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2011 A Process of Decision Making by Caregivers of Family Members With Heart Failure Julie Sanford, DNS, RN University of South Alabama, Mobile Judith Townsend-Rocchicciolli, PhD, RN James Madison University, Virginia Annie Horigan, MSN, RN Duke University, North Carolina Pat Hall, PhD, CRNP Diagnostic Medical Clinic, Mobile, Alabama Heart failure (HF) is a major cardiovascular problem and the number of people living with HF continues to climb. Throughout the illness continuum, patients and their family caregivers are involved in decision making. As the illness worsens and patients can no longer make decisions, decision making becomes the responsibility of their caregivers who may have little preparation for the role. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to examine how caregivers of family members with HF make decisions. A nonlinear decision-making process consisting of several actions was identified, which included actualizing; seeking input, information, or support; reflecting; choosing; evaluating; and validating the decision. Keywords: decision making; heart failure; caregiving; grounded theory eart failure (HF), a complex cardiovascular syndrome, is increasing in incidence throughout the world. In 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) noted that cardiovascular disease accounted for more than 16.7 million deaths (29.2%) of all deaths worldwide with 7.2 million...
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...to their surroundings and enjoy being around the things, activities, and the people they love. Caregivers often go to great extents trying to make this happen often to the loss of their own financial, physical, and emotional well-being. The U.S. Administration on Aging (AOA), a program division within the Administration for Community Living (ACL) (Link, 2015), has been in the forefront of helping caregivers. The ACL assist in maintaining a wide range of support programs that address daily issues caregivers face. The ACL has made considerable advances in meeting the various, rapidly changing support needs of...
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...Nursing Reflection The role opportunities for nurses in a community of mostly elderly people, farming as the main occupation, and lack of health resources are endless. According to city-data.com, the adult obesity rate for Conecuh County is 32.6% whereas the state of Alabama is 31%. The rate of child obesity is 18.9% and the state is 13.5% (City-data.com, 2013). The first nursing diagnosis is imbalanced nutrition: more than body requirements (obesity) among residents of my community related to increased food consumption and insufficient energy expenditure for intake. The first goal for this diagnosis is to reduce the prevalence of obesity among the residents. An objective for this goal is that 50% of the obese residents will engage in an exercise plan that will promote adequate weight loss. The interventions for this objective include establishing a community wide exercise program or fitness plan that will promote weight reduction; and develop a meal plan that will enhance weight loss and promote better eating habits. We will work with local health care providers to provide sample menus and meal plans for the citizens who will participate in the weight reduction program. A second objective states that residents will lose 5% of total body weight over a period of six weeks. The interventions used to make this objective a reality include motivating residents by organizing a competition program to see which team can lose the most weight in a specific time period; and establishing...
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...Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is defined as “an unspecified medical entity: the sudden and unexpected death of a reasonably healthy child, whose passing away remains uncertain following the performance of an adequate assessment of medical history, autopsy, and death scene examination”(Valdes-Dapena,1979). SIDS is one of the predominately-unsolved problems of infancy. The number of infants who die each year of SIDS is greater than the number of children who die of pneumonia, child abuse, AIDS, cancer, heart disease, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy combined (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 2007). Even though SIDS is not predictable or 100% preventable, there are prevention tips, guidance, and support for those that have been affected by this tragedy. The tragic loss of a child to SIDS weighs heavily on the minds of all parents. One thought that offers a little comfort to parents who have suffered such a loss is that there appears to be no suffering. In most SIDS cases, death occurs rapidly and during sleep. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “SIDS is the prevalent cause of death during the first year of life with a rate of roughly two per every thousand births.” SIDS could possibly have more than one cause, though the final process appears to be associated in the majority of cases. Though it is unknown what causes SIDS, it is known...
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...system providers in Georgia is the Freedom Home Care. Located in Columbus, Georgia, Freedom Home Care is a State-Licensed private provider that was started by Joe and Hope Robbins. The facility can be found at www.freedom-homecare.com. This essay will discuss the delivery services as well as community information that are provided, resource options that are provided by the website and ways that the site can become beneficial to the writer’s needs. Freedom Home care provides solutions for families that need assistance with the challenges of everyday life. The facility goes through a screening process to find the most qualified staff that will provide quality assistance for the clients. There are professional caregivers who will come to the individuals’ house and help them with everything from bathing to cooking and stay for a few hours a day. The caregivers are available 24 hours a day. From child care to elder care there are trustworthy and reliable caregivers to be there when others such as family members cannot due to busy work schedules. There are numerous aspects of specialties on hand such as nannies, disabled, senior care. The services provided by Freedom Home Care are Senior Care, Child Care, Nursing, Ashby Memory Method, and Link to Life. Senior care has providers that assist the elderly with everyday activities. Child Care provides part-time and full-time nannies to care for infants and young children. They do meal preparation and homework for...
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...work with families. Your findings are intended to broaden your knowledge and assist you in your course work (parent visit and major course assignment). The assignment is worth 34 marks and all students will begin with that mark. For each error or incomplete response, ½ mark is taken off. Submit as per your course faculty instructions. Answer each question clearly and concisely. 1. One of the best resources for teachers in finding support for families is the Canadian Child Care Federation. Go to the website: http://www.cccf-fcsge.ca and answer the following: (2 marks) What year was it established? It was established in 2012 What is its mission? Their mission is protecting, enhancing and prompting children safety and their healthy growth and development. As well as they committed to provide Canadian with the very best in early learning and child care knowledge and best practise. Google “Campaign 2000.” What is its purpose? What is the current status of this report? (Hint: Click on “What’s New” to see how it impacts families currently) (2 marks) The purpose of Campaign is seeking to eliminate poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000. Currently children and families in poverty left out of budget 2015, the federal budget misses its target by providing costly tax cuts to the wealthy at the expenses of pressing pressing needs of majority of Canadian children and families which is out of step with realities of majority of families in Canada...
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...system is just beginning to feel the burden (Matthews, 2013). Healthcare for the aging population will have to change for the better for them since so many elders are living to unexpected ages from the past. Doctors must prepare and rethink every aspect of care for the older population, even rethinking the way there going to die(Matthews, 2013). On the other hand the country has to figure out how to pay for this extra care and how to support the older population. As the elder population grow and grow there will be a higher demand for geriatrician; geriatrician will help the elders prepare to live a healthier and longer life on there on. That leads into the decline in care givers; and how some elderly does not want to be a burden on their family they have to rely on visiting nurse to come provide them with the assistance they need or even get put in an assisted living home so they can receive the care around the clock that they need. This builds more and more medical expenses for the seniors that they can not really afford. An elderly expense is double the amount versus an individual that is under the age of sixty five; with all of the expenses from the elderly the younger generation is starting to feel the pressure of cost in healthcare going up. Furthermore, that leads into how we can come up with a solution to provide medical care financially to our aging population. One of the solutions that we must come up with is how our we as a country going to afford to pay for healthcare...
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...can hire a professional caregiver from a licensed home care company to assist. The following are some of the gambling addiction assistance resources available in the San Fernando Valley. Gamblers Anonymous One of the first resources you may want to check out is Gamblers Anonymous. These meetings are free, and they can be found throughout the general area – your senior might attend a meeting in a city such as Reseda. As mentioned on the home page of the website for Gamblers Anonymous, “The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop gambling”. Your elderly friend or relative will find people of all ages and from all walks of life in these meetings, and innumerable people have found the 12-Step Program to be an invaluable tool for recovery. AC&CS Advanced Cognitive and Clinical...
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...affects the way infants develop. Hence, it is fundamental to set positive structure from the beginning because the exposure cannot be undone when raising a child. It is significantly important to provide a nurturing environment. The Affect Families Have On Infants and Childhood Development From infancy, the brain instantaneously goes through developmental change. The progress is an effect of genes and the environment the infant is exposing to and as an outcome of experiences. Early childhood experiences have two categories; experience-dependent and experience-expectant. Experience-expectant refers to the development of the nervous system and it is predictable to develop in a certain way. Standard cognitive growth is reliant of the positive type of environmental exposure. With the exception of any type of fetal damage to the brain, in order for the experience-expectant to be within usual range of development; when an infant is exposed to a loving gesture (as an example), it should respond cognitively. Experience-dependent growth refers to the conditioned behavior response of new experiences and exposures that would occur throughout life. This promotes brain growth and is only superior when coupled with a constructive family environment. Any dispossession of either of these roles can seriously compromise an individual’s ability to flourish, both cognitively and...
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