Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others

Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others.

Caring for mom and neglecting yourself? The health effects of caring for an elderly parent.

We examine the physical and mental health effects of providing care to an elderly mother on the adult child caregiver. We address the endogeneity of the selection in and out of caregiving using an instrumental variable approach, using the death of the care recipient and sibling characteristics. We also carefully control for baseline health and work status of the adult child. We explore flexible...

Caring for Pressurized Tissues

زخم های فشاری، یکی از عوارض ناخواسته درمانی بوده و اکثراً با درک هوشیاری و مراقبت بموقع قابل پیشگیری است. امروزه زخم های فشاری یا زخم بستر یکی از مسائل بغرنج درمانی محسوب می شود و این مسئله تا حد زیادی مربوط به این واقعیت است که، تعداد بسیاری از بیماران سالخورده از بیماری های جدی و حاد جان سالم بدر برده ولی به علت سالخوردگی و پاتولوژی عوامل چندگانه بیشتر در معرض ابتلاء به زخم های بستر می باشند.

Learning while caring: medicine's epistemology.

An essential epistemic consideration is the conditional nature of medical knowledge. This uncertainty must be understood when acquiring new knowledge or designing treatments. We must value all sources of information, neither discarding those deemed lower on the current value scale, nor slavishly accepting randomized clinical trials or their meta-analyses as the fount of all knowledge. Generally...

Nursing as informed caring for the well-being of others.

Assumptions about four main phenomena of concern to nursing (persons/clients, health/well-being, environments and nursing) are presented and an elaboration is made of the structure of a theory of caring. The issues that arise when nursing is viewed as "informed caring for the well-being of others is also examined."