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Caregiver Characteristics and Barriers to Resource Use: Findings From a Rural State Caregiver Survey
Publikováno v:
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Vol 10 (2024)
Background: Despite the key role family caregivers play in the US healthcare system, they are not systematically identified and tracked, limiting our knowledge about this important group. Objective: Our objective was to identify caregiver characteris
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https://doaj.org/article/dae01e0ce3064a62a0d7b8e5b2238b51
Autor:
Kelly Melekis, Carol S. Weisse
Publikováno v:
Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care. 17:173-185
Comfort care homes are community-run, residential homes that provide end-of-life care to terminally ill individuals who lack safe, secure housing and a reliable caregiver system. As nonprofit, non-medical facilities, these homes have faced both new a
Autor:
Judith G. Gonyea, Kelly Melekis
Publikováno v:
Journal of Aging and Environment. 35:249-272
To be old and homeless is to face multiple stigmatized identities simultaneously. This qualitative study explored how older homeless adults construct their personal and social identities to manage ...
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®. :104990912211507
Background Most prefer to die at home, but the Medicare Hospice Benefit does not cover custodial care, making it difficult for terminally ill patients with housing insecurity and/or caregiver instability to access hospice care at home. Objectives To
Publikováno v:
Omega.
Most people wish to die at home yet significant barriers exist in accessing care in one’s home, especially for individuals with caregiver and/or housing instability. Across the U.S., residential homes for the dying are opening to address gaps in en
Publikováno v:
Innovative Higher Education. 43:447-462
Although the Collegiate Recovery Community is increasingly seen as the treatment modality of choice for students in recovery, relatively few such programs have been established on small residential campuses. In this article we examine the possible re
Autor:
Carol S. Weisse, Kelly Melekis
Publikováno v:
Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice. 24:100437
This curricular resource describes an interprofessional educational program and curricular structure for teaching a rare but critical skill: how to care for someone when there is no cure, and to do so in a home environment when death is expected and
Publikováno v:
Aging & Mental Health. 22:1564-1569
Older minority subsidized housing residents represent a population that is particularly vulnerable to depression. Although research suggests that neighborhood characteristics influence older adults' mental health, it has not been explored in this tar
Autor:
Nancy P. LeMieux, Christina S. Melvin, Mary Alice Favro, Patricia A. Prelock, Shelley L. Velleman, Kelly Melekis
Publikováno v:
Seminars in Speech and Language. 38:350-359
The article explains an approach to building interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional practice opportunities as well as content in palliative/hospice care within undergraduate and graduate curricula for six health disciplines, includin
Autor:
Judith G. Gonyea, Kelly Melekis
Publikováno v:
Innovation in Aging
The emergence of “aging in place” as social policy in the U.S and globally reflects a deepening understanding that a home is more than a physical domicile, it also represents a source of personal and social identity and offers one a sense of plac