Publications by authors named "Samantha Benham-Hermetz"
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- - Caregivers play a crucial role in supporting individuals with serious health conditions, but this responsibility can lead to various financial, physical, and emotional challenges for them.
- - Health technology assessment (HTA) agencies usually focus on patient outcomes while neglecting the impact on caregivers, which can result in suboptimal health benefits for the overall system.
- - A proposed framework based on the intensity and duration of caregiving aims to help researchers and decision-makers incorporate caregiver outcomes into health policies, highlighting the necessity of acknowledging caregiver burden.
Confronting Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves patients, healthcare professionals, supportive services, caregivers, and government agencies interacting along a continuum from initial awareness to diagnosis, treatment, support, and care. This complex scope presents a challenge for health system transformation supporting individuals at risk for, or diagnosed with, AD. The AD systems preparedness framework was developed to help health systems identify specific opportunities to implement and evaluate focused improvement programs.
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