Disease-Specific Training for Home-Based Care Workers Can Improve Staffing, Boost Quality

Personal care aides are tasked with caring for seniors with a variety of health conditions — many of which they are not properly trained in. And without the proper training, those aides operate in highly stressful environments without the tools to care for their patients adequately. That can hurt health outcomes, increase the caregiver’s emotional […]

Program Helps Nurses Fight Depression Among Homebound Elderly

A new intervention tool may provide relief to homebound older adults who suffer from moderate to severe depression, show results from a new study recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The intervention program, developed by Weill Cornell Medical College, trains nurses to both identify and manage clinically significant depressive symptoms.  “The program provides nurses with a framework to deal […]