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For young adults, caregiving isn't just hard. It can shape you for life

NPR

For young adults, caregiving isn't just hard. And it's only in recent years that researchers in health sciences have started probing the experience of young caregivers like him to understand it better. When social scientist Feylyn Lewis, now at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, spoke to young adult caregivers for her 2017 dissertation, they told her that caregiving shaped their …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

How to care for a parent at the end of life.

Slate

hosts love helping listeners find the answers they need. On this episode: Courtney Martin and her brother, Chris, open up about how their father’s dementia has led them to upend their own lives in order to become his caregivers. To help Courtney and Chris talk through what comes next, Carvell Wallace welcomes Dr. Allison Applebaum, whose book Stand by Me …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

How parents and caregivers can evaluate the research on MERT and other potential treatments

LA Times

Firsthand accounts of a therapy’s life-changing effects can be powerfully compelling. If you go to a clinic website and they have dozens of quotes from parents saying, ‘This changed my child’s life in XYZ ways,’ that isn’t the same as evidence,” said Zoe Gross of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a nonprofit group run by and for autistic adults. “If …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Care for the caregivers

New Indian Express

The number is higher among female medicos — 2.5 times more likely than the general female population. According to a recent study published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, as many as 358 doctors died by suicide in India between 2010 and 2019, including 125 medical students, 105 house surgeons, and 128 doctors. In Kerala, studies are being taken up …

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7 months ago

Black men are a hidden segment of caregivers. It's stressful but rewarding, too

NPR

Black men are a hidden segment of caregivers. It's stressful but rewarding, too Enlarge this image toggle caption Ashley Milne-Tyte for NPR Ashley Milne-Tyte for NPR Robert Turner didn't expect the last 24 hours to go this way. "Black men in America, given our profile and treatment, many men feel as though life is stressful on so many different levels," …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Childhood wounds that can impact adult life

Hindustan Times

The way we are brought up in childhood affects the relationships we make in the later stages of life as well. When we are brought up in dysfunctional homes where we did not receive the affection and love that we deserved as a child, we tend to carry such trauma in our adult lives as well. Childhood wounds that can …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Are baby boys chattier than girls?

Firstpost

Baby boys have seized centre stage in the babbling arena. The idea that girls acquire language faster than boys has long held sway in scientific circles, and with it the assumption that baby girls vocalise more than baby boys. However, the results showed that boys made 10 per cent more utterances in the first year of life, before the girls …

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2 years ago

7 Tips For Caregivers To Ensure A Quality Life For Elderly

News 18

We don’t need studies and research papers to prove how important quality of life is for people of any age, especially old-age. Even family members or caregivers can acquire special training in these supportive and palliative care centers and provide support to their aged family members. Dr Amit Jain Consultant & Head – Pain and Palliative Medicine, Dharamshila Rahat Supportive …

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2 years, 4 months ago

When caregiving affects mental health

Live Mint

Caregivers of people suffering from cancer go through psychological distress which is often overlooked, affecting their quality of life and also patient care, according to a study by doctors of AIIMS Patna. The study was conducted from July 2020 to March 2021 at the Department of Radiation Oncology at AIIMS Patna to determine the quality of life of the caregivers …

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2 years, 6 months ago

80% of Gaza children suffer depression after 15 years of blockade

Al Jazeera

800,000 children in Gaza have only ever known life under blockade, affecting their mental health, says report. Gaza City – Four out of five children in the Gaza Strip suffer from depression, sadness and fear caused by fifteen years of the Israeli blockade on the territory, a report published by Save the Children has found. The report, entitled “Trapped”, interviewed …

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2 years, 7 months ago

A centre providing free shelter, food, support to children with cancer, their caregivers opened in Manipal

The Hindu

Kasturba Medical College and Hospital, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, and Access Life Assistance Foundation jointly opened ‘a home away from home’ for children with cancer and their caregivers, in Manipal on Saturday. Access Life Assistance Foundation, India, is a non-profit organisation registered company, providing multi-disciplinary supportive care to families who come to cancer centre for their child’s cancer treatment. …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Everything We've Been Doing To Teach Kids About Periods Is Wrong

Huff Post

H. Armstrong Roberts/Getty Caregivers play a critical role in teaching children about periods, and the conversations they have can chip away at the shame and secrecy that still surrounds menstruation. “You want to give context for menstruation for both ‘menstruators’ and ‘non- mentruators,’” said Kate Barker Swindell, service and operations manager for the nonprofit Period. Common mistake #4: Waiting to …

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4 years, 2 months ago

World Mental Health Day | ‘My husband has bipolar disorder’ and other stories