Those looking after older or disabled loved ones are missing out on vital support with consequences for their own health and finances: new Carers UK report.
Based on findings from Carers UK’s State of Caring
Survey 2016, this research explores the time it takes for
people to recognise they have taken on a caring role,
and whether they had missed out on support because
they simply didn’t think of themselves as a carer.
We developed a tailor-made intervention aimed at improving social participation of people with cognitive problems and their caregivers. This programme consists of an integration of healthcare and welfare interventions: occupational therapy, physiotherapy and guidance by a welfare professional. This article describes the feasibility evaluation of this Social Fitness Programme. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
To explore the extent and influence of mental health professionals’ personal experience of mental ill health on clinical practice. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
This study aims to provide effect size estimates of the impact of two cognitive rehabilitation interventions provided to patients with mild cognitive impairment: computerized brain fitness exercise and memory support system on support partners' outcomes of depression, anxiety, quality of life, and partner burden. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
just a phenomenon embraced by the young—31% of all seniors are on Facebook.2 With growing engagement across demographics, social media networks offer new platforms of digital interaction at a scale that is hard to comprehend—313 million active Twitter users sending half a billion tweets and 1.9 billion Facebook accounts uploading 350 million photos every day. SnapChat has created some of the country's youngest billionaires. All these activities, driven by the public's desire to curate and share life experiences, provide new opportunities to observe and understand lived reality in greater detail and closer to real time than ever before. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Non-adherence is a major public health problem despite treatment advances. Poor drug adherence in patients with psychosis is associated with more frequent relapse, re-hospitalization, increased consumption of health services and poor outcomes on a variety of measures. Adherence rate in patients with first episode psychosis have been found to vary from 40 to 60%. However, most previous studies have addressed the consequences of non-adherence rather than its potential causes.
The purpose of this study was, therefore, to investigate experiential factors which may affect adherence to medication in adults with psychotic disorders, during the 24-month period after the onset of treatment.
Carers from across Staffordshire have been recognised for “going the extra mile” at the county’s Dignity in Care Awards.
Over 200 carers were joined by family members and work colleagues for the annual celebration held at Newcastle College of Performing Arts on 2nd August.
The first Carers Café will be held at RJAH on Tuesday 5 September 2017; thereafter, the sessions will be held every second Tuesday of the month.
The café will give carers an opportunity to meet other carers in an informal environment, over a cup of tea or coffee.
Carers who attend the monthly café can also find out about resources available to them, and identify ways they can be supported within the community.
I was 8 years old when my father, Cecil Dawson, was diagnosed as having Alzheimer disease. Receiving a loved one’s diagnosis of a fatal degenerative disease is always traumatic; however, my mother and I were completely unprepared for what lay ahead of us.....Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The Care Quality Commission now involves ‘experts by experience’ – people who have first-hand experience of health and/or social care services – in its inspections, in training inspectors and in the broader shaping of the organisation. Utilising the 'renewable energy' of patient expertise was one of the central pillars of the NHS five year forward view (Forward View), now more than two years old.
With cases of dementia on the rise, it's more important than ever that services give people the support they need. Read our briefing to find out what people have told local Healthwatch about their experiences of care.
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Mothers with intellectual disability face socioeconomic disadvantage and social isolation, which is associated with poorer child outcomes. Social services feature prominently in the lives of mothers with intellectual disability especially those without informal support; however, the role of formal support in the lives of their children has not been explored. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
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The Staffordshire Symphony of Hidden Voices is a series of events, activities and online places where hidden voices with perspectives on mental health care can find and engage with each other. It was created initially at the Combined NHS Staffordshire Symphony for Hidden Voices event at Port Vale Football Club on 30th June 2017
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to obtain caregivers’ perspectives on the impact of the sensory environment on participation in daily activities of their young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). SSSFT staff - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Systemic approaches can be useful in working with people with learning disabilities and their network. The evidence base for these approaches within the field of learning disabilities, however, is currently limited.
This article presents part of a service evaluation of systemic consultations in a Community Learning Disability Service (CLDS). Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text.
M. Atzmueller, J. Baumeister, and F. Puppe. Medical Data Analysis, Proc. 4th Intl. Symposium on Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA 2003), LNCS 2868, page 23-30. (2003)
M. Atzmueller, J. Baumeister, and F. Puppe. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Special Issue on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine, 37 (1):
19--30(2006)
M. Atzmueller, J. Baumeister, and F. Puppe. Medical Data Analysis, Proc. 4th Intl. Symposium on Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA 2003), LNCS 2868, page 23-30. (2003)
M. Atzmueller, J. Baumeister, and F. Puppe. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Special Issue on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine, 37 (1):
19--30(2006)
M. Atzmueller, J. Baumeister, and F. Puppe. Proc. 15th Intl. Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management (INAP 2004), page 203--213. Potsdam, Germany, (2004)