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managing chronic illness

Evidence-Based Practice Corner: What We Talk About When We Talk About Surgery

Posted on February 12, 2016

In the United States, older adults have more than one-third of all operations. Each year, some 500,000 elders consider major surgery, such as coronary bypasses or organ transplants. As people are leading not only longer …

Posted in Issue 10Tagged evidence-based practice, family caregivers, health education, hospitalization, managing chronic illness, surgery

Is Big Data the Future of Healthy Aging?

Posted on November 12, 2015

“By the age of seventy, on average people have at least two chronic conditions. Many will have more than that,” says Parminder Raina, PhD, the director of the McMaster Institute of GeroScience in Ontario, Canada, …

Posted in Issue 09Tagged data analysis, demographics research, health education, managing chronic illness, preparation

How Family Can Help – and Sometimes Hinder – the Management of Chronic Illness

Posted on November 11, 2014

“The management of chronic illnesses is demanding,” says Karen Rook, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California–Irvine. “Patients frequently must initiate and then sustain changes in multiple health behaviors, often …

Posted in Issue 05Tagged aging and family, family caregivers, managing chronic illness

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