December 24, 2024
(NPR) – Young caregivers have always been there, doing all the same things that adults do — helping people get dressed, charting symptoms and medicines, dealing with doctors and bills. About one-quarter of all family caregivers are between 18 and … Read More
December 13, 2024
(New York Times) – A trio of relatives in New Jersey defrauded the state’s Medicaid program out of millions of dollars while neglecting patient care, the state comptroller found. Three men running a group of nursing homes in New Jersey … Read More
December 6, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 8, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 4, 2024
(NPR) – The Taliban’s supreme leader has reportedly ordered a ban on women attending nursing and midwivery institutes, closing a rare avenue they had to pursue an education beyond the sixth grade. Human Rights Watch says the ban was ordered … Read More
December 2, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The number of male registered nurses in the U.S. has nearly tripled since the early 2000s Many of the manufacturing jobs that are being moved overseas, replaced by automation or phased out of the American economy … Read More
November 22, 2024
(Plough) – A husband caring for a loved one with dementia finds dark valleys, but also limitless spiritual resources. Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, in How We Die, describes the experience of dementia caregivers as “spiritually exhausting.” At times, that was my … Read More
November 19, 2024
(NBC News) – Allegations that go unreported and a lack of accountability for health care workers leave patients in the dark and increase the risk of abuse, research shows. Violent crime in hospitals is up, according to a 2023 report from The Joint … Read More
October 31, 2024
(NPR) – Almost 60% of the roughly 11.5 million people caring for someone with dementia report high or very high emotional stress. Between 40% and 70% of family caregivers have symptoms of depression. Caregivers of people with incurable cancer actually … Read More
October 30, 2024
(Axios) – Hospitals and clinics remain among the most violent workplaces in America, continuing to strain health workers in the aftermath of the pandemic experience. Why it matters: The situation is bad enough that the American Hospital Association and the … Read More
October 23, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 7, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
September 25, 2024
(NPR) – COVID killed more than 3,600 U.S. health care workers in the first year of the pandemic. It left many more with physical and mental illnesses — and a gutting sense of abandonment. What workers experienced has been detailed … Read More
September 24, 2024
(New York Times) – Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated. Many patients receiving those replies have no idea that they were written with the … Read More
September 18, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 5, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 28, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 19, 2024
(STAT News) – Risk of suicide increased in year after diagnosis, suggesting caregivers need more support The distress from receiving a cancer diagnosis is something that clinicians widely anticipate in patients, but suffering often doesn’t just afflict the patient. It … Read More
August 15, 2024
(The Verge) – The smart home-powered service uses Samsung’s SmartThings platform and Galaxy smartphones to help remote caregivers keep tabs on those they’re caring for. Samsung is launching a new service to help caregivers remotely monitor and assist loved ones … Read More
August 12, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Grace Carr was 17 when she left her family home in the coal town of Freeland, Pa., to pursue a dream she’d had since she was 5 years old. “Ever since I can remember, I … Read More
August 9, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Violent altercations between residents in long-term care facilities are alarmingly common. Across the country, residents in nursing homes or assisted living centers have been killed by other residents who weaponized a bedrail, shoved pillow stuffing into … Read More
August 5, 2024
(New York Times) – Adult children are less likely to assist an aging stepparent, studies show. A growing “step gap” in senior care worries experts. Calculating the growth in stepfamilies isn’t simple, but a demographic analysis published last year estimated … Read More
July 30, 2024
(NPR) – Errors in diagnosis are relatively common among older people. The reasons are many: older adults may have multiple conditions, take many medications, and illnesses can look very different in older people than they do in younger ones. Older … Read More
July 12, 2024
(New York Times) – The Biden administration set stringent new federal staffing rules. But for years, nursing homes have failed to meet the toughest standards set by states. California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island have sought to improve … Read More
July 10, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 2-3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Residents’ Experiences of Paternalism in Nursing Homes” by Anne Helene Mortensen, et al. “Ethical Issues in long-term Care Settings: Care Workers’ Lived Experiences” by Anna-Liisa … Read More
July 4, 2024
(NPR) – In hopes of easing that burden, Medicare, the federal government’s health insurance program for people 65 and over, is launching an eight-year pilot project this summer with a groundbreaking plan. The government will pay to directly support the … Read More
June 26, 2024
(Axios) – Longstanding caps on green cards for foreign-educated nurses are limiting one potential fix for America’s stark shortage of health care workers. Why it matters: As burned-out nurses leave the field, many hospitals and nursing homes have sought to … Read More
June 10, 2024
(New York Times) – In long-term care facilities, residents sometimes yell at or threaten one other, lob insults, invade fellow residents’ personal or living space, rummage through others’ possessions and take them. They can swat or kick or push. Or … Read More
