Institutionalizing a Loved One Hard on Caregivers
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Caregivers who place a relative with dementia in a long-term care facility experience significant anxiety and depression afterward, and their use of tranquilizers to relieve anxiety increases, a new study finds.
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For the caregivers of patients, life is an act of stoic devotion that most families embrace as the antithesis of a nursing home.
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Sometimes it's tough for patients to tell the whole story.
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TAMPA, Fla. -- He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.
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NEW YORK  - People caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease benefit not only emotionally but also physically from a counseling and support program developed at New York University Medical Center.
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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How to help when a parent is no longer able to manage financial matters.
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The parents had tried with little success to cope with their son's accelerating deterioration. Unable to concentrate, he had dropped out of college and moved back home. When he could no longer function at the job he had held briefly, his parents kept him sequestered in their house, his condition ...
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When people fail to make estate-planning decisions while they are alive and well, the results for their heirs can be costly and stressful.
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Advocates for the mentally ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDayNews) --  Along with devastating memory loss, Alzheimer's disease can trigger such hard-to-manage behaviors as aggression, wandering, hallucinations and repetitive vocalizations.
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The progress of Parkinson's disease (PD), or any brain-wasting disease, is painful to watch in oneself or in a loved one.
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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I have spent most of the past three weeks inside a hospital room, watching a person I love fight for his life. It is in this frame of mind - raging helplessly against the ever-mutating cleverness of disease
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Social workers looking after an 82-year-old Alzheimer&#39;s sufferer abandoned at a hospital believe his family might have gone to Spain.
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The family of an 82-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer who was abandoned at a hospital have come forward.
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NEW YORK  - Elderly, sick or disabled men  and women who rely primarily on their spouse for care are more  likely to be to be screamed at, threatened or otherwise  subjected to potentially harmful behaviors than those whose  care is not provided by a spouse, new study findings show.