Editor's Note: For more on informal caregivers and related issues, see Bridging Troubled Waters: Family Caregivers, Transitions, And Long-Term Care and other articles in the January issue of Health ...

Directly involving the thousands of family members and friends who serve as 'informal carers' for people with dementia in the evaluation of patients' symptoms and behavior could offer improved ...

With formal integration initiatives, such as accountable care organizations, having modest effects, researchers analyzed the impact of informal clinical integration on cardiac surgery payments and ...

Providers, patients and policymakers should better incorporate informal caregivers into skilled nursing facilities to enhance professional caregivers’ capabilities and efficiencies, according to ...

(Reuters Health) - As relatives and friends step in to provide increasingly complex care at home for heart attack and stroke survivors, the costs associated with such "informal" caregiving are ...

Formal day care, like Head Start, public school pre-K and private centers, provide higher-quality care and education to both toddlers and 4-year-olds than informal, non-parent caregivers, according to ...

In formal caregiving settings such as hospitals, each diagnosis and test brings health care systems more money. These systems bet and win on us being sick to function. The average length of stay in a ...

The challenges faced by informal carers - usually mothers - of children and adults with intellectual disability have been largely overlooked during the coronavirus crisis. Professor Peter Langdon of ...

It’s crucial to support them so they don’t fall into excessive caring which could have long-term negative impacts on their lives. My research uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to explore ...

Deborah Dickerson had no idea what she was getting into when the call came in 2001. Dickerson's daughter had just given birth to a boy, the voice on the other end of the phone said, but the new mother ...

UK people who became carers during COVID-19 by helping family members, friends or neighbours in need experienced a sharp decline in their own mental health, new research from Lancaster University ...