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Family members providing home-based palliative care to older adults: The enactment of multiple roles
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Clemmer, S., Ward-Griffin, C., Forbes, D.
Canadians are experiencing increased life expectancy and chronic illness requiring end-of-life care. There is limited research on the multiple roles for family members providing home-based palliative care. Based on a larger ethnographic study of client-family-provider relationships in home-based...
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2012
Richmond, C., Forbes, D., Finkelstein, S.
This article explores how dementia care is provided to First Nations communities in southwestern Ontario. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with health care providers and analysed using a constructivist grounded-theory methodology. Two interrelated frameworks for understanding...
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Fall 2016
Approximately 15 million people worldwide experience stroke annually, of which five million are left permanently disabled, creating a need for long term support from family and community services. This sudden, unplanned and unpredictable event can have a devastating effect on the mental and...
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Gender differences in use and availability of home and community-based services for people with dementia.
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Henderson, S., Peacock, S., Kingston, D., Morgan, D., Leipert, B., Hawranik, P.
The purpose was to examine the use and availability of home and community-based services by men and women with dementia using data from the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey. Variables of interest were based on the Andersen and Newman model and included predisposing, enabling, need, and use...
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Health and Social Consequences of Caregiving for Family and Friend Caregivers of Older Adults
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There is growing evidence of social and health consequences that threaten both adequacy of care and caregiver quality of life. Inconsistencies in empirical evidence and lack of an organizing framework have resulted in knowledge gaps in the types and extent of these consequences and of those at...
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Healthcare Providers’ Knowledge of Disordered Sleep, Sleep Assessment Tools, and Nonpharmacological Sleep Interventions for Persons Living with Dementia: A National Survey.
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Jones, A., Crick, K., Wielandt, P., Brown, C. A., Wilson, D.
Alarge proportion of personswith dementiawill also experience disordered sleep. Disordered sleep in dementia is a common reason for institutionalization and affects cognition, fall risk, agitation, self-care ability, and overall health and quality of life.This report presents findings of a survey...
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Hearing loss and cognitive-communication test performance of long-term care residents with dementia: Effects of amplification
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Ostevik, Amberley, Slaughter, Susan E., Ickert, Carla, Hopper, Tammy, Hodgetts, Bill
Purpose: The study aims were: 1) to explore the relationship between hearing loss and cognitive-communication performance of individuals with dementia, and 2) to determine if hearing loss is accurately identified by long-term care (LTC) staff. The research questions were: 1) What is the effect of...
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Hope against hope: Exploring the hopes and challenges of rural female caregivers of persons with advanced cancer.
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Thomas, R., Hallstrom, L., Williams, A., Cooper, R., Holtslander, L., Eby, J., Duggleby, W.
Background This paper focuses on the qualitative component of a study evaluating a hope intervention, entitled Living with Hope Program (LWHP), designed to foster hope in female caregivers of family members living with advanced cancer. The purpose of this research is to share, in the form of a...
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Hope and connection: The experience of family caregivers of persons with dementia living in a long term care facility.
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Duggleby, W., Schroeder, D., Nekolaichuk, C.
Background: Hope is a psychosocial resource that is essential for the psychological, spiritual, and physical well-being of family members caring for persons with dementia. A significant positive relationship has been found between hope and well-being in family caregivers of persons with dementia...