seems longer: Caregivers to stay healthy; patients who turn to religion for cures; new views on postpartum depression -
Each week KHN reporter Marissa Evans is interesting reads through the web.
Minnesota Public Radio: How caregivers Learns To Care for itself: Living with ALS
More than 65 million people, or 29 percent of the population of the United States, to provide care for a chronically ill family members disabled or elderly friends or people in a given year, and spend an average of 20 hours per week, provided that care. And more than three out of 10 households US, or 31.2 percent, reported that at least one person was used as unpaid family caregivers, according to AARP. This means that even if you are not a caregiver now, it is likely that you will one day. Ev Emerson, Bruce Kramer's wife teaches music in primary school French immersion Normandale in Edina, and is also looking after her husband after he was diagnosed with ALS. He was worried when he was diagnosed about the effect of her illness would have on his wife and their relationship with the rest of the family (Cathy Wurzer, 6/15)
The Atlantic: . When patients rely on Miracles
If the idea of a "miracle" feels out of nowhere, he is in hospital waiting rooms. The sterile experience of getting an IV and wearing a rough paper dress and be surrounded by paintings of neutral landscapes can hide the intense, emotional issues entangled in sickness: Why organisms decompose as they do? Why do some people get sick while others remain healthy? And if doctors can not save anyone, can God? Many people seem to think. In a 08 study published in the Archives of Surgery, 57 percent of non-medical workers said they thought divine intervention could save a sick member of the family, even though the doctors said further treatment would be futile (Emma Green , 6/18).
Esquire Magazine: I lived the agonizing Birth Story You may never read
We'd come seven hundred miles in the gut of winter because the perinatologist my wife recommended we meet specialists prenatal Children Colorado Hospital. He also said he had started his own practice twenty years ago and delivered quad sets, but he had never met a pregnancy like ours: triplets, with a pair of twins and monoamniotic Monochorionic residing together in one bag. This bag had become the fetal rugby scrum elbows and feet and twisted umbilical cord in a knot, which, in time, compress and cut the blood supply twins. They grew up with a constant threat of sudden death. We came to Colorado to decide whether we should let them go (Tim Paluch, 6/13).
The New York Times: an alert when the Policy Lapses
Michael Pirron feels pretty good these days. In January, I reported the sad story of her elderly parents, the confusion allowed them care insurance long term to expiry. While Anne and David had faithfully paid Pirron John Hancock about $ 50,000 in premiums of over 11 years, which they would be entitled to $ 0,000 in benefits through their common policy, the elder Mr. Pirron went to his bank and wrongly arrested self-payment system had put his son up.When John Hancock sent notices that their coverage was about to end because they had stopped making payments, not Pirrons not know what to do with them, hidden in a drawer. Their son found the letters months later, when her mother needed more care and wanted to exploit their advantages (Paula Span, 6/12).
The New York Times: "thinking of ways to hurt him"
postpartum depression is not always postpartum is not always even depression A body rapid growth.. research is changing the definition of mental illness of the mother, showing that it is more common and diverse than previously thought. scientists say the new findings contradict the long-held view that the symptoms only start a few weeks after childbirth. in fact, depression often begins during pregnancy, the researchers say, and can develop any time in the first year after the baby is born (Pam Belluck, 6/15)
:. Modern healthcare health Rule Obamacare is the improved targeting of hospitals
When 193-bed Advocate Trinity Hospital began five years ago to assess residents' health needs in its service area on South Side of Chicago, he found that the rate of stroke was among the highest in Illinois. Deaths from heart disease and cancer accounted for half of the more than 2,700 deaths in the hospital's service area in 2011. "We mapped a plan of what these (health) shortcomings were," said Michelle Gaskill, president of Trinity. "Then we began to identify investments that we would do over a period of time to start filling those gaps." ... All nonprofit hospitals are now required by the Act affordable care patient protection and to conduct and publish community feedback similar needs once every three years. they should also develop a strategic plan on how they will respond to identified needs (Steven Ross Johnson, 6/14 ). .
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