2 results match your criteria: "Center for Applied Research in Aging and Health[Affiliation]"

Evaluation of a telephone-based support group intervention for female caregivers of community-dwelling individuals with dementia.

Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen

March 2007

Center for Applied Research in Aging and Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA.

Family caregivers, the "second victims" or hidden patients in dementia care, are at risk for social isolation, stress, depression, and mortality. Telephone-based support (telesupport groups) represents a practical, low-burden, low-cost source of emotional support. The present study evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of professionally led telephone-based support groups for female family caregivers of community-dwelling dementia patients.

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Moral imagination in long-term care workers.

Omega (Westport)

May 2005

Thomas Jefferson University, Center for Applied Research in Aging and Health, Suite 515, 130 South 9th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.

Our study focused on the cultural construction of dying and death in long-term care facilities. This article centers on direct care workers' perspective of residents' deaths. The data on which this article is based were gathered in a multi-year, multi-site study through formal ethnographic interviews, informal conversations, and on-site observations of residents and staff members.

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