Family caregivers for older persons with dementia offer recommendations to current caregivers: a qualitative investigation.

Background And Aims: Family members who care for older adults with dementia encounter significant difficulties across many domains. There is limited research in this area; thus, the aim here is to share the actual experiences of 30 family caregivers to other family caregivers and to show how these experiences can provide help and recommendations.

Methods: This qualitative study of 30 family caregivers of family members aged 65 and older who died with dementia-related diagnoses used in-depth qualitative interviews conducted over a 12-month period for data collection and content analysis to understand the data.

Positive Aspects of Family Caregiving for Older Adults at End-of-Life: A Qualitative Examination.

Family caregivers of older adults with dementia have significant challenges across many domains. While this role has been found to be burdensome on the caregiver, increasingly, though, there are also significant positive aspects reported by caregivers (known as the positive aspects of caregiving-PAC). This participatory qualitative study of 30 United States caregivers of family members age 65 and older who died with a dementia-related diagnoses used in-depth qualitative interviews and directed content analysis to understand the data.

Dying With Dementia: Caregiver Observations of Their Family Members' Physical Decline and Behavioral or Psychological Changes During Their Last Days.

Family caregivers of older persons with dementia have significant challenges across many domains. These reported problems encountered over their caregiving time are for many reasons, but what makes the caretaking difficult is complicated by both the unknown nature of the dementia disease and the dying trajectory. While there are studies, primarily from health-care professionals, of this dying process and the last few weeks of life for older persons with dementia, much less is known directly from the family caregivers' perspectives and experiences.

How does paid sick leave relate to health care affordability and poverty among US workers?

Secondary data analysis on the 2015 National Health Interview Survey was conducted to determine if having paid sick leave increases the odds of being able to afford specific health care goods and services, and not having access to paid sick leave increases the odds of being in poverty, being food insecure and having elevated medical costs among a representative sample of US workers age 18-64. We found a statistically significant association between paid sick leave and ability to afford dental care, eyeglasses and prescription medication. Workers who lack paid sick leave are more likely than those with paid sick leave to be in poverty and have high medical costs.

Paid sick leave status in relation to government sponsored welfare utilization.

Nearly a third of all U.S. workers, primarily lower-paid employees, do not have paid sick leave benefits, prompting some lawmakers to consider mandating paid sick leave for all U.

From Juvenile Offender Institutions to Residential Treatment Centers: Evidence of the Shifting Paradigm to Improved Youth and Community Outcomes.

Hundreds of thousands of youth are held every year in U.S. juvenile justice detention centers and incarceration facilities.

Comorbid Adolescent Difficulties: Social Work Prevention of Delinquency and Serious Youthful Offending.

A majority of adolescents who are formally involved with the juvenile courts and detained or incarcerated are dealing with past or present maltreatment victimization, learning disabilities, and/or mental health/substance abuse difficulties. Addressing these problems and traumas is an integral part of preventing delinquency and breaking a youthful offender's recidivist cycle, a pattern that often predicts adult offending and incarceration. Fortunately, there are effective programs across the social work profession that decrease or may even eliminate delinquent behaviors, both for low-level and more serious youthful offenders.

Unintentional prescription drug non-compliance for financial reasons in families with a child with a limiting health condition.

Area probability sampling via U.S. postal addresses was used to select households from seven high poverty U.

Association between mental health disorders and juveniles' detention for a personal crime.

Background:   Youth involved with juvenile courts often suffer from mental health difficulties and disorders, and these mental health disorders have often been a factor leading to the youth's delinquent behaviours and activities.

Method:   The present study of a sample population (N = 341), randomly drawn from one urban US county's juvenile court delinquent population, investigated which specific mental health disorders predicted detention for committing a personal crime.

Results:   Youth with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder diagnoses were significantly less likely to commit personal crimes and experience subsequent detention, while youth with bipolar diagnoses were significantly more likely.

Predicting juvenile delinquency: the nexus of childhood maltreatment, depression and bipolar disorder.

Background: It is important to identify and provide preventative interventions for youth who are most at risk for offending behaviour, but the connection between early childhood or adolescent experiences and later delinquency adjudication is complicated.

Aim: To test for associations between specified mental disorders or maltreatment and later delinquency adjudication.

Method: Participants were a random sample of youth before the juvenile courts in two Northeast Ohio counties in the USA (n = 555) over a 4-year time frame (2003 to 2006).

Behaviorally-based disorders: the historical social construction of youths' most prevalent psychiatric diagnoses.

Psychiatry in the USA controls the definitions of mental health disorders and diagnosis through required practice utilization of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and fiscal reimbursement using it. The present sociohistorical research paper presents and critically examines the Manual's systemic and diagnostic development of today's most prevalent youth mental health diagnoses (conduct and oppositional defiant disorders). Through a social construction theoretical paradigm, this research identified diagnostic classification systems, nosology changes, critical time periods, conducive social and cultural conditions, and key individuals involved in the development of these youth behaviorally-based disorders within two distinct historical time frames: 1880 to 1968 and 1969 to 2000.