Caregiver Burnout: A Pervasive Problem
....My mom passed two years ago and my dad hasn’t done well since. Recently he had a stroke. My sister, who lives 1,000 miles away, came out for mom’s funeral, and she also visited for a few days after dad’s stroke, but she has a job and a family and couldn’t stay long. Now, dad’s been diagnosed with vascular dementia. Realistically, I’m the sole caregiver. I have two teenaged children, a husband who is, so far, supportive, and a job. I’m already beginning to feel burned out after just a few months. What can I do to help myself get through this and still take care of my dad? ...Your feelings are warning you, ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - December 22, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
New Wearable Detects Respiratory Exacerbations: Interview with Dr. Maria Artunduaga, CEO of Respira Labs
Respira Labs, a medtech company based in California, created the Sylvee sensor, an adhesive patch that the user wears on their lower rib cage, and which monitors respiratory health. The device works through acoustic resonance, whereby it emits sound into the chest cavity and analyzes the echoed vibrations.
The measured data provide information on lung air volume and correlate with the amount of air that is trapped in the lungs, which can offer a warning sign that a respiratory exacerbation is possible. With many COVID-19 patients experiencing impaired breathing for sustained periods after their initial infection has sub...
Source: Medgadget - December 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine respiralabs Source Type: blogs
Test Detects SARS-CoV-2 in Breath, May Work as COVID Alarm in Enclosed Spaces
Researchers at Brown University have developed a breath test for COVID-19. The breathalyzer, which they have termed the Bubbler, consists of a tube that someone blows into for fifteen seconds. The tube contains a mix of enzymes that reverse transcribe the RNA in viral particles into DNA, which allows for a subsequent benchtop PCR test.
Breathalyzers were bathed in UV light to maintain sterile field prior to construction of kits prepared for the clinical trial at Rhode Island Hospital. Top image: Bubbler kits were processed in a negative pressure bench top box to prevent contamination of amplicon particles in the labora...
Source: Medgadget - December 20, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Public Health brown university Source Type: blogs
Omicron Symptoms: The Warning Signs To Look Out For
Do Omicron symptoms look like a common cold? (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: COVID19 Source Type: blogs
Football And Fast Food: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
A group of researchers has sent an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, asking that Meta — the company formerly known as Facebook — be more transparent about internal research into how its platforms affect the mental health of young people. The signatories also want the company to make its data available to external researchers for study, and set up an independent trust to oversee work on mental health, Nicole Westman reports at The Verge.
Why do professional footballers sometimes choke during penalty shootouts? Louise Ellis has cond...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 10, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
Conservatives Are More Likely To Share Fake News — But Only If They Are Low In Conscientiousness
By Emma Young
Why do people share fake news? All kinds of studies have looked into what encourages it, and which personal attributes play a role. As the authors of a new paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General point out, multiple studies have found that political conservatives are relatively more likely to disseminate false news than those on the political left. However, their new work finds that this is an over-simplification — that the link is “largely driven” by conservatives who are also low in conscientiousness. This is an important finding for a few reasons. On the upside, it’s a far less...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Media Personality Political Source Type: blogs
WTF Health: Early-Stage Med Device Startup Acorai is Turning Smart Phones into Heart Failure Monitoring Devices
By JESSICA DaMASSSA, WTF HEALTH
Acorai is an early-stage medical device startup working with Bayer to improve the way we manage the world’s 65 million patients living with heart failure by using their own smart phones. CEO Filip Peters shows the Acorai device, which is basically an extended smart phone case packed with four different kinds of sensor technologies that work together to measure the pressure inside a patient’s heart, by simply holding their phone against their chest. Of course, the real magic is the algorithm that turns these readings into early detection of a potential incident. How does this stack up ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech WTF Health Acorai Bayer G4A Bayer G4A Partnerships Program Jessica DaMassa Source Type: blogs
6 Habits for Mental Health That Will Change Your Life for the Better
Conclusion
One of the ways to ensure you lead a happy and quality life is to take good care of your mental health continually. Practicing the habits discussed above will take you a step forward in staying mentally healthy. Do you have any bad mental health habits you struggle with? Can you commit to kicking them to the curb and practicing the above helpful mental health habits? We would appreciate your feedback in the comment section.
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Sherry enjoys researching, discussing, and writing on the topics of ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 30, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured happiness psychology habits mental health Source Type: blogs
Nuclear Strategists Know How Dangerous the Debt Fight Is
Nuclear-war strategists ' work offers a warning for Congress: The more times a game is played, the more treacherous it becomes, because when both sides believe catastrophe will always be averted in the end, each behaves more rashly. In the debt-ceiling dispute, the United States could end up defaulting precisely because each side keeps waiting for the other to blink. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 29, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Edward Geist Source Type: blogs
I Must Have Missed The Memo Explaining That The Iranians Were After Our Health Data!
This appeared last week: https://healthitsecurity.com/news/cisa-iranian-government-sponsored-threat-actors-targeting-healthcare CISA: Iranian Government-Sponsored Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare The US and its allies are warning healthcare entities about Iranian government-sponsored threat actors targeting Microsoft Exchange and Fortinet vulnerabilities. By Jill McKeon November 17, 2021 - US cyber officials along with allies from Australia and the UK issued an advisory warning the healthcare and transportation sectors about an Iranian government-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been exploit...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
What to Be Thankful For
David BoazEndless war. A $28 trillion national debt. Intrusive regulation. Criminal injustice. Presidents who don ’t think the Constitution limits their powers. The rise of illiberalism on both left and right. It’s easy to point to troubling aspects of modern America, and I spend a lot of time doing that. But when a journalist asked me what freedoms we take for granted in America, I found it a good opportunity to step back and consider how America is different from much of world history — and why immigrants still flock here. If we ask how life in the United States is different from life in mo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 24, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
This Is Definitely A Move In The Right Direction To Maintain Public Confidence In The QR Scanning System.
This appeared last week: NSW legislates to protect check in data from police Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter 15 November 2021 A government bill banning New South Wales police from accessing COVID-19 check in data is expected to become law this week, after passing the Upper House with bipartisan support and being endorsed by the state ’s privacy watchdog. It comes in the absence of a national approach and follows incidents of state police accessing the check in data for investigations not related to the pandemic. Police have sought to access check in app data in Western Australia, Victoriaand Queensland, sparking warnings...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 24, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Now We All Know Who To Blame For The #myHealthRecord Disaster – A Consulting Firm!
I noticed this last week! Health and public policy consultancy Siggins Miller joins Deloitte 15 November 2021 Profile Deloitte
The health and human services practice of professional services firm Deloitte has brought on board influential healthcare and public policy consultancy Siggins Miller.
Founded close to 25 years ago, Siggins Miller is a consulting firm recognised for its influence on national health legislation, including work on pregnancy warnings on alcohol and plain tobacco packaging.
Siggins Miller was founded in 1997 by Mel Miller, who also serves as an adjunct professor in the Health and Behavioural Sc...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 24, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Lyrical analysis of No Footprints
You may have noticed I wrote and recorded yet another song – it was originally entitled Footprints in the Sand. It was angst-ridden and full of random allusions and imagery, as is my wont. I added the word “No” to the title having used a photo of beach on which there were no footprints and I thought that would make it even more angst, suggesting that the song’s protagonists were hankering after the beach but unable to be there for whatever reason.
As I mentioned earlier, the song started off in my usual way, simple chord progression over which I ad libbed a few words…I tightened the words up...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 20, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
No Footprints in the Sand
No Footprints in the sand
The days are colder and the nights drawn in
No barricades of comfort, now the aching will begin
I’m running down an unlit corridor
Pain can chase me, but I head out through an open door
And you won’t find a clearer path today
If you turn your back on the future, try to run away
And, there are times when you can plan your day
But the tide will turn and wash your wishes away
But I can see the warning signs ahead
They don’t deter me, they draw me on instead
And I should say that we can choose a tougher path
The path of least resistance was never going to last
Walk with me, I’...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
