This is the finding of a study by post-graduate student Lauren Bussey, Lucy Moss and Dr Mark Moss of Northumbria University who will present their research today, Wednesday 27 April 2016, at the British Psychological Society's Annual Conference in Nottingham.
Lauren Bussey said: "In this study we focused on prospective memory. This involves the ability to remember events that will occur in the future and to remember to complete tasks at particular times. It's critical for everyday functioning. For example: when someone needs to remember to post a letter or to take medication at a particular time."
Rosemary and lavender essential oil were diffused in a testing room by placing four drops on an aroma stream fan diffuser and switching this on five minutes before the participants entered the room. A total of 150 people aged over 65 took part in the study and were randomly allocated to either the rosemary/lavender-scented room or another room with no scent.
Raise the Floor: Quality Nursing Home Care Depends on Quality Jobsoutlines the case for improving jobs for the 650,000 nursing assistants employed by the nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes.
These workers -- who are 91 percent female, 35 percent African American, and 20 percent foreign-born -- provide the majority of hands-on assistance that allows nursing home residents to live with dignity and as much independence as possible.
But nursing assistant jobs are characterized by poverty-level wages and poor benefits; erratic, often part-time schedules; limited support from supervisors; and little chance to advance beyond the entry level. Yearly wages average $19,000, barely enough for a family to meet their most basic needs.
In addition, PHI's research team estimates that more than 75 percent of nursing homes fail to meet the federal recommended staffing level for nursing assistants. This understaffing means that nursing assistants are constantly under stress and have time only to meet the residents' most basic personal care needs. This leads to dissatisfaction and burnout among staff and inadequate support for residents.
In the report, Maribel Rodriquez, a nursing assistant from Waterbury, Connecticut, describes her job as "hard physically, mentally and emotionally." The work takes a toll: nursing assistants are injured on the job three and half times as often as the average American worker.
Drugs are becoming the next battleground for health care access in Medicaid. I'll be posting more items that focus on the how insurance companies and states are trying to manage costs by "managing" us......
In November 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a Medicaid Drug Rebate Notice on Assuring Medicaid Beneficiaries Access to Hepatitis C Drugs. States are in the process of responding to the notice and HIV/ID providers can play an important role in helping states develop clinically appropriate coverage policies.
In response to the harsh restrictions being placed on the new direct-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs by state Medicaid programs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a program notice in Nov 2015 to remind states of Medicaid’s drug coverage rules. States are in the process of responding to the letter and ID/HIV providers can play an important role in helping Medicaid programs develop clinically appropriate coverage policies. This webinar provides tools and information to help providers become engaged in these discussions. The presenters have granted permission for their slides to be downloaded and used in presentations to educate other providers on these issues.
Researchers gathered data from high school varsity players who donned specially outfitted helmets that recorded data on each head impact during practice and regular games. They then used experimental techniques to measure changes in cellular microstructure in the brains of the players before, during, and after the season.
“Our findings add to a growing body of literature demonstrating that a single season of contact sports can result in brain changes regardless of clinical findings or concussion diagnosis,” said senior author Dr. Joseph Maldjian, Chief of the Neuroradiology Division and Director of the Advanced Neuroscience Imaging Research Lab, part of the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at UT Southwestern.
The findings contribute to a growing body of knowledge and study about concussions and other types of brain injury by researchers with the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute. Among them:
“We have a lot of older adults that fall and we see them in the ER,” Lauren Southerland, MD, an emergency physician with OSU who specializes in geriatric care, told Home Health Care News. “We studied who had come to the ED, and found that if they had hit their heads, a lot of them were coming back. Head trauma made a person 2.5 times more likely to come back to the ED. It’s not at all what we expected to see.”
The biggest problem was what happened to patients after they returned home from an ED visit related to a fall.
“When we looked reasons why people were returning [to the hospital], a lot of the problems were related to the initial fall,” Southerland said. “A lot of them fell again within the next few months.”
One third of all hospitalizations of those ages 65 and over, are due to medication issues like PolyPharmacy (taking multiple drugs), poor compliance, and a lack of underestanding how seniors metabolize meds differently by both patients and healthcare providers.
In a study of over 150,000 elderly patients, 29% had been given at least one of 33 potentially inappropriate drugs; in addition, a study of approximately 27,600 Medicare patients documented more than 1,500 adverse drug effects (ADEs) in a single year. Most ADEs result from drug interactions; the more drugs a patient takes, the higher the risk of interactions. The estimated incidence of drug interactions rises from 6% in patients taking two medications a day to as high as 50% in patients taking five a day.
The graph below shows Google trends from the search term “lead water” within the city’s geographic region when compared to the State of Michigan, and the United States as a whole.
It shows that residents started searching for ‘lead water’ almost as soon as the City of Flint switched its water source. Further, we can see that residents continued to search for lead water long before any elected official or emergency manager seemed to realize there was an issue. Interestingly, one of the major peaks, in March of 2015, is when the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) revealed their results from the first round of lead testing, which indicated that lead levels were extremely low. One would expect this to appease the city residents, and perhaps lead to a drop in Google searches for lead water; however, we can see that is clearly not the case.
Common symptoms include but are not limited to: unstable or fragmented sense of self; dissociation; emotional dysregulation and self-destructive behaviours; chronic feelings of shame, guilt, and worthlessness; difficulty trusting others or oneself; volatile and inconsistent relationships and friendships; and suicidal ideation. Many folks with complex trauma, like myself, also develop severe and debilitating illnesses, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivities, and chronic migraines.
Many traumatized queers also struggle with addiction and alcoholism (I’m currently five years sober, and it has not been easy). Other diagnoses under the umbrella of complex trauma are borderline personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and developmental trauma disorder.