Yoga Therapy During Chemotherapy for Early-Stage and Locally Advanced Breast Cancer.

Background: Chemotherapy is associated with decreased quality of life (QOL), fatigue, depression, and weight gain in patients with breast cancer. Weight gain is associated with poorer prognosis. Yoga improves QOL, fatigue, and mood in women with breast cancer but its effect on treatment-related weight gain has not been studied.

Critical Workforce Gaps in Dementia Education and Training.

The US Department of Health and Human Services and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, through private sector support, sponsored the National Research Summit on Dementia Care: Building Evidence for Services and Supports (Summit) in 2017. Various workgroups were asked to address topics of interest in dementia care and develop recommendations addressing the goals of the Summit. Workforce education and training was identified to be a key issue.

Making a Difference: A Study of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for Persons with Dementia.

Affecting nearly 5.4 million older adults in the United States and 35.6 million individuals worldwide, dementia is one of the greatest public health crises of our time.

The Caregiver Well-Being Scale: developing a short-form rapid assessment instrument.

The Caregiver Well-Being Scale (CWBS) is a 43-item instrument that was designed in the 1990s to help family caregivers, clinicians, and researchers identify areas ofcaregiver strength and areas in which additional support is needed. This article describes the development of a 16-item version of the CWBS and discusses the methods used in testing the psychometric properties of the shortened version in a sample of 493 family caregivers. It concludes that the shortened version is valid, reliable, and easier to use than the original version but has the same goals and continues to be applicable in research and clinical settings.

Assessing the health of adult daughter former caregivers for elders with Alzheimer's disease.

Past research is varied in assessing the effect of caregiving on health, particularly caregivers in the postcaregiving phase. The variation may be due, in part, to methodological issues, including the use of health measures not psychometrically tested. The study examines the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36 (SF-36) health survey with 102 former caregivers whose family member was deceased for at least one year at the time of the study and had been identified as having Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder.