Long-Term Care - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Long term caregiving: helping families of persons with mild cognitive impairment cope.

30 Jul 2009 The purpose of the paper is to describe common psychological and caregiving issues that can cause stress in family members of persons with mild cognitive impairment (PwMCI) in order to assist family members in providing care and support to the PwMCI ... Read more...

Older and younger family caregivers of adults with intellectual disability: factors associated with future plans.

30 Jul 2009 A structured interview survey was conducted in a major city in Taiwan to explore and compare older and younger family primary caregivers' well being and their future caregiving plans for these adults with intellectual disability. The sample size was ... Read more...

Conveying compassion through attention to the essential ordinary.

29 Jun 2009 AIM: To discover some of the means by which nurses let older people know that they sense their suffering and are willing to try to relieve or at least reduce it. METHOD: A purposive sample of seven nurses employed in long-term care in Canada was ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Long-Term Care - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Center caters to children's needs. 30 Aug 2009
• Long term caregiving: helping families of persons with mild cognitive impairment cope. 30 Jul 2009
• Older and younger family caregivers of adults with intellectual disability: factors associated with future plans. 30 Jul 2009
• Conveying compassion through attention to the essential ordinary. 29 Jun 2009
• [An interprofessional or an interdisciplinary problem? Distinctions to develop an analytical scheme of interdisciplinarity based on the case of a long-term care hospital] 30 May 2009
• Looking ahead in long-term care: the next 50 years. 30 May 2009
• The challenges to long-term care: a personal account. 30 May 2009
• Preface. Long-term care. 30 May 2009
• Disparities in long-term healthcare. 30 May 2009
• Health-related quality of life (HRQL) in all-patients treated with chemotherapy only: a report from the late effects surveillance system in Germany. 10 May 2009
• Nurse's assessment of caregiver burden. 29 Apr 2009
• Chronic sorrow in parents of children with type 1 diabetes. 29 Apr 2009
• Follow-up care after childhood cancer: survivors' expectations and preferences for care. 24 Mar 2009
• A broader view of family caregiving: effects of caregiving and caregiver conditions on depressive symptoms, health, work, and social isolation. 22 Mar 2009
• Family quality of life among families with a member who has an intellectual disability: an exploratory examination of key domains and dimensions of the revised FQOL Survey. 17 Mar 2009
• Preferences for long-term care: what does love and culture have to do with it? 27 Feb 2009
• The management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 15 Feb 2009
• The effects of resident and nursing home characteristics on activities of daily living. 4 Feb 2009
• Effects of changes in depressive symptoms and cognitive functioning on physical disability in home care elders. 3 Feb 2009
• Understanding care of people with dementia in Spain: cohabitation arrangements, rotation and rejection to long term care institution. 30 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Long-Term Care'

Definition: Care over an extended period, usually for a chronic condition or disability, requiring periodic, intermittent, or continuous care.

Descriptor UI: D008134

Alternative terms: Long-Term Care; Care, Long-Term; Long Term Care;

Related Mesh Headings: Insurance, Long-Term Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.476; N02.421.585.476;

Online Note: use LONG-TERM CARE to search LONG TERM CARE 1968-91

History Note: 92; was LONG TERM CARE 1968-91

Technical Notes: NIM