Unionization can improve the financial well-being of direct care workers, including personal care aides, nursing assistants, and home health workers, a cross-sectional study in the United States found.
Caregivers in nursing homes experience joy through relationships with patients, and this joy helps contribute to caregiver well-being and team dynamics, a Canadian study found.
Dear Dr. Diane: It feels like everywhere I go, every discussion I have is about how AI [artificial intelligence] is taking over medicine. Our EMR already has decision support tools, and I do wonder what is next as family members come into my...
With the increasing shortage of health care providers, the number of older adults needing care is rapidly approaching a tipping point, outstripping the availability of health care professionals to meet the demand. Likewise, incorporating the volume...
Wound care specialists in post-acute and long-term care settings often keep an open invitation for primary care teams to join their weekly rounds. Unless rounds are ridiculously early, primary care practitioners often recognize that working together...
Despite growing interest in expansion of consumer- (or self-) directed models of Medicaid-funded personal care, research characterizing program use is limited. We leverage health plan and claims data from a large health plan in New York to examine (...
