Hospitals are referring a larger share of stroke patients to inpatient rehabilitation facilities, which typically favor home health as the provider of any additional step-down care, a recent study ...
The heavy media coverage of the findings should help with Edmondson’s first concern: raising awareness. He said that caregivers have long been aware of the relationship between stroke and depression, ...
Improvements in workload policies, salaries, mentoring, and a greater degree of autonomy are among the changes needed to preserve the workforce of nurses across a variety of roles in clinical and ...
In 2005, my father-in-law died from a stroke. It wasn’t his first stroke. In 6 months, he had two strokes. The first stroke took his independence, the second stroke took his life. Those two strokes ...
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the UK and one in four stroke survivors will experience another stroke within five years of their first episode. This has led to an increase in the ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) – When it came to picking a career, Alex Wilson-Garza felt a calling to serve others – she comes from a family of teachers and first responders, including police officers. “I felt like ...
Strokes are typically associated with older people, but Lee Guo Rong suffered a life-threatening stroke when he was just 28. "I was playing computer games at home when I had a really bad headache and ...