Evolving Needs Rajeev Ramchand; Terri Tanielian; Michael P. Fisher ...
Hidden Heroes,
04/2014
Book Chapter
Open access
Caregiving has been traditionally construed as an issue relevant to the aging and elderly population. This has largely been driven by challenges faced by middle-aged caregivers tending to the needs ...of their aged parents. The focus on caregivers for the aging makes sense: A third of pre-9/11 and civilian caregivers are children of the person they are caring for, and over half are caring for someone over age 65. More recently, caregiver research and support programs have included consideration of parents and siblings of persons with special needs across the lifespan (NAC and AARP, 2009). As a result, many policies
Critical Lifelines Rajeev Ramchand; Terri Tanielian; Michael P. Fisher ...
Hidden Heroes,
04/2014
Book Chapter
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At its core, the social ecological framework of caregiving has the care recipient and his or her caregiver. This chapter focuses primarily on this relationship, and is divided into four sections. In ...the first section, we estimate the number of caregivers to quantify the magnitude of caregiving, and military caregiving in the United States. The next two sections focus on characteristics of the caregiver and the care recipient. In the final section, we discuss the types of tasks that caregivers perform as part of their caregiving duties and the time that performing these duties takes. Throughout these sections, we integrate
Summary Kimberly A. Hepner; Carol P. Roth; Coreen Farris ...
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System,
04/2015
Book Chapter
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In recent years, the number of U.S. service members treated for psychological health (PH) conditions has increased substantially. In particular, at least two PH conditions, posttraumatic stress ...disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), have prevalence estimates ranging from 4 to 20 percent for PTSD and 5 to 37 percent for MDD (Institute of Medicine IOM, 2013, p. 21; Ramchand, Schell, et al., 2010; Schell and Marshall, 2008). Delivering quality care to service members with these conditions is a high-priority goal for the military health system (MHS). Meeting this goal requires understanding the extent to which the care the MHS
APPENDIX G Kimberly A. Hepner; Carol P. Roth; Coreen Farris ...
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System,
04/2015
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Abbreviations Kimberly A. Hepner; Carol P. Roth; Coreen Farris ...
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System,
04/2015
Book Chapter
Bibliography Kimberly A. Hepner; Carol P. Roth; Coreen Farris ...
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System,
04/2015
Book Chapter
