Caregivers Research Proposals Samples For Students

Care giving for a patient living with dementia

Majority of patients suffering from dementia are cared for in community settings either by their spouse, children or significant others. Care giving has its merits and demerits on both the persons with dementia and on the caregivers. Whilst in some few cultures it is viewed in positive light and as something that brings satisfaction for the caregivers, care giving especially for the elderly is a strenuous responsibility and families which are involved in care giving feel this strain. Nevertheless, members who participate in giving care to those who are terminally ill must not let their burn out affect the quality ...

Amongst mentally ill patients at high risk for early readmission, does the utilization of a multi-component transition care plan as compared to usual care help to improve early readmission rates?

Abstract

The early hospital readmission rate in a 30-bed psychiatric unit in California is 25%. This figure is higher than the 13% reported in the literature for high-income countries like the US (Vigod et al., 2013). Early readmissions are problematic as they are costly and disruptive to the personal and professional lives of patients and their family members. In addition, they are construed to be negative patient outcomes and negative indicators of ...

Hypothesis statement

There are many ailments that are often associated with old age. Reduced immunity and other factors lead to the susceptibility to diseases at old age because of increased risk factors. One of the most ailments in people of advanced age is Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer is the most common form of dementia which is a term that denotes sets of symptoms that causes problems in intellectual abilities coupled with memory loss, language, thinking and disorientation, lack of motivation, mood swings, and problem-solving abilities. In some cases, some behavioral issues can be observed in a person who is reporting symptoms ...

Abstract

Objective-To study under treatment of pain in dementia patients living in assisted care and nursing homes.
Design-Randomized controlled trial. Dementia patients with a pain related diagnosis once identified, ten random patients among them identified to be subjected to the study
Setting- A home for assisted living hosting dementia patients picked at random and the required study population among the patients chosen
Participants-Ten residents who have pain related diagnosis such as arthritis picked at random using the randomized controlled trial method of sampling.
Intervention- Qualify patients on a mild pain reliever dose routinely for two weeks. After the ...

Abstract

Aging parents usually fall into the responsibility of their children, who become their caregivers. While in the process of carrying for their elderly parents, the adult children may deal with various changes, ranging from the feebleness of their parents to their changing behaviors, modes, forgetting estate and so on. Moreover, they might even be experiencing the fact that their parents are permanently unsatisfied and continuously requesting for more attention and more choruses to be done for them. While dealing with this, the children also have to handle and to organize their own lives and many of them are still ...

Healthcare environments are significantly prone to the risk of infection. Apparently, given the many avenues for possible infection that are evident in healthcare environments, there is an urgent need for intervention that such places demand. Several studies have revealed that all the people who participate in such environments stand a risk of getting infected, an aspect that further raises concern on the way those in charge of such places conduct their activities. The current paper identifies where the risk stems from, the possible interventions that should be initiated to curb the involved risks and it provided a reliable model ...

Pain management in elderly patients is a challenge, and when elderly patients suffer from dementia, pain treatment becomes even more difficult because of the communication problems with such patients. Almost 50 percent of the elderly patients admitted to hospitals complain of pain, and of these 20 percent complain of severe pain (Monroe and Mion, 2012). However, research has documented the under-detection and under-treatment of pain in patients with dementia (Cunningham, McClean, and Kelly, 2010). It has also been found that systematic use of analgesics in elderly dementia patients can reduce their level of agitation within acute care settings (Hirsch, 2011). ...

Abstract

The research highlights the reasons why the role of Transitional Nursing Services has become increasingly important of late. The particular focus of the research is on determining the potential benefits that an elderly patient can receive from a Transitional Nurse, which will in turn, automatically improve their overall health and well-being.
The limitations of the physician in actively engaging in transitional medical care has also been emphasized, in order to establish that it is the Transitional Nurse who is in a unique position to act as a bridge between the physician, the patient as well as the patient’s ...

Introduction

Oracle Corporation is one of the largest companies in the information technology sector. In the third quarter of 2015 it reported earnings of $9 billion in revenues, mostly unchanged from the previous year and a steady growth in its Cloud Services . It has corporate policies on non-discrimination in terms of race, gender and is an equal opportunity employer . Yet its board remains mostly male, with only 3 out of 13 board members comprised of women . From the list of company executives found on the company website, it is found that only 4 out 30 executives, including co-CEO Safra Catz, ...

1. Introduction
Child sexual abuse is both a global problem and a crime to which there are seldom any witnesses and which more often than not remains undetected. Disclosure by sexually abused children is the most effective method by which assistance and intervention can be provided in a timely fashion. However, there are several barriers to such disclosure.
The purpose of this paper is to review and describe the major barriers to disclosure of child sexual abuse and explore the methods to overcome these barriers. The paper reviews literature about child sexual abuse and disclosure with a key focus ...

ON A NATIONAL HEALTH ISSUE

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ROLE OF MEDIA IN SHAPING PARENTS’ ATTITUDE

“One of the most egregious outcomes of marijuana prohibition is that many sick people cannot legally access the medicine that works best for them. For many seriously ill people, medical marijuana is the only medicine that relieves their pain and suffering, or treats symptoms of their medical condition, without debilitating side effects. Marijuana has been shown to alleviate symptoms of a huge variety of serious medical conditions including cancer, AIDS, and glaucoma, and is often an effective alternative to synthetic painkillers.”
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Researchers believe that the marijuana can provide relief, even cure for numerously medical ...

Is gender (male and female) a factor in memory loss in elderly with Alzheimer’s disease?

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most common types of Dementia that cause the death or malfunction of nerve cells in the brain. Eventually, this death or malfunction of brain cells leads to changes in behavior, memory patterns, and affects the thinking abilities among the affected persons. In the case of Alzheimer’s disease, the changes within the brain cells of individuals impairs their abilities to perform normal functions within the body. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for an approximate 60 to 80 per cent of all cases of dementia (Alzheimer’s Association, 2012). Alzheimer’s disease is the ...

Grief and nursing personnel

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The event of patient death inevitably invites a feeling of remorse and grief among the caregivers. Constant or prolonged contact with patients creates a sense of bonding between the patients and the caregiver. This mutual bond develops and grows with time. When a patient dies eventually, there is a sudden feeling of loss by the nurse. Though nurses’ characteristics vary, a great number of nurses who take care of patients in death beds experience this feeling on occasions of patient death. There is a dearth of research as to the exact nature of characteristics that are inherent in the nurses who experience a feeling ...

According to information from the "CIA Factbook, 2012" there are just about 6,744 deaths in the National Health Service hospital facilities in the United states. This is roughly 41% of the number of patient admissions in the year 2011. On the other hand 12% of the patients pass on at home and other institutions not associated with the health sector. From the CIA Factbook, 23% die in hospice institutions. The office for national statistics (2012) indicates that 24% of patients pass on in community health facilities.
According to psychologists, the death of a person is likely to impact ...