The global climate crisis is an immediate threat, causing inequitable health impacts across different populations. Climate justice connects the causes and effects of climate change to structural injustices in society. Nurses and community-based organizations (CBOs) partner in promoting justice and health equity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To describe nurses' and community-based organization representatives' collaborative strategies for advancing climate justice with communities.
Design: This study used a descriptive, qualitative research design.
Methods: Data were gathered from August 2022 to February 2023 with nurses (n = 8) and their community partners (n = 5) in the United States.
Objective: Care partners of persons living with dementia perform significant financial planning in partnership with the person for whom they care. However, research is scarce on care partners' confidence and experiences with financial planning. The purpose of this study was, first, to quantify care partners' confidence across different financial planning topics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOlder adults with serious illness near the end-of-life often receive invasive treatments. We developed a conceptual model called clinical momentum that describes system-level forces producing a trajectory of care that is difficult to modify and contributes to overtreatment. We sought to evaluate the empirical fit of our model by examining an event with clear guidelines against intervention: permanent feeding tube placement in patients with advanced dementia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: Care partners of persons living with dementia perform complex legal planning tasks. The purpose of this study was to survey care partners in the United States to understand their confidence and experience in performing legal planning tasks.
Research Design And Methods: This study used a parallel mixed-methods research design.
Background And Objectives: Care partners of people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are faced with substantial legal and financial planning related to their care partner role. However, many care partners lack the legal and financial support needed to manage this role. The purpose of this study was to engage ADRD care partners in a remote participatory design process to create a technology-based financial and legal planning tool that meets care partner needs.
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