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Occupational therapy intervention for residents with stroke living in UK care-homes.
Funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme, a study looking at the effects of occupational therapy delivered in care homes following a stroke has been published in the British Medical Journal. (BMJ)After dementia, a stroke is the most common health issue for people living in care homes. Stroke survivors admitted to care...
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - March 4, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Can You Think Yourself Into A Different Person?
For years she had tried to be the perfect wife and mother but now, divorced, with two sons, having gone through another break-up and in despair about her future, she felt as if she’d failed at it all, and she was tired of it. On 6 June 2007 Debbie Hampton, of Greensboro, North Carolina, took an overdose of more than 90 pills – a combination of ten different prescription drugs, some of which she’d stolen from a neighbor’s bedside cabinet. That afternoon, she’d written a note on her computer: “I’ve screwed up this life so bad that there is no place here for me and nothing I can contr...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 19, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Occupational therapy for persons with cognitive impairments
CONCLUSIONS: Based on this systematic overview, it can neither be proven nor excluded with certainty that occupational therapy for cognitive impairment is an effective therapy for adult patients with central nervous system injuries compared to no occupational therapy. There is a lack of randomised trials with sufficient sample size, well-defined interventions, and comparable concomitant therapies in the control groups, but there is also a lack of well-designed observational studies in routine care and health economic studies. The identified systematic reviews on patient and social aspects provide information on the needs o...
Source: GMS German Medical Science - June 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Petra Schnell-Inderst Annette Conrads-Frank Igor Stojkov Cornelia Krenn Lisa-Maria Kofler Uwe Siebert Source Type: research
