August 17, 2023

New online course equips personal care assistants with essential knowledge for supporting individuals with spinal cord injury

“Understanding Spinal Cord Injury: A Course for Personal Care Assistants” a new interactive online course designed to enhance the training of personal care assistants (PCAs) for individuals with spinal cord injury, was presented today at the Paralyzed Veterans of America Healthcare (PVA) Summit + Expo at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld Hotel in Orlando, FL, by Jeanne Zanca, MPT, PhD, FACRM, assistant director of the […]

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August 11, 2023

Well-designed digital health platforms can improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers

There is a need to better deliver information on medical nutrition therapy for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Findings of a new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, show digital health serves as an additional health service resource, which increases the healthcare provider’s abilities to collect current visual and objective data, thereby decreasing patient and caregiver burden […]

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February 2, 2023

Poor healthcare experiences lead caregivers to self-medicate, study shows

Caregivers need care, too. And now, researchers from Japan have found that their experience with healthcare professionals while caring for someone else affects their own healthcare choices. In a study published recently in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, researchers from the University of Tsukuba found that caregivers are more likely to take personal care into their own hands, by self-medicating, […]

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