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VA Caregiver Program Purges: Who Is Behind What?

Published: September 20, 2022

Spouses stepping in the gap between VA Caregiver Program purges and the services their veterans need are taking the agency to the courtroom of public

Source: disabledveterans.org

Caregivers Take Fight Right To McDonough, Issue 'Remy Challenge'

Published: September 15, 2022

Caregivers tired of continued lip service from Secretary Denis McDonough issued the "Remy Challenge" to call out the agency for current practices.

Source: disabledveterans.org

"Strengths-building through life purpose, self-care goal setting and so" by Martha Abshire Saylor, Noelle V. Pavlovic et al.

Published: September 5, 2022

Background: For caregivers of people with heart failure, addressing a range of care recipient needs at home can potentially be burdensome, but caregivers may also gain meaning from caregiving. The Caregiver Support Program, a multicomponent strengths-based intervention, is designed to improve outcomes of heart failure caregivers. Objectives: 1) Test the feasibility and gauge an initial effect size of the Caregiver Support Program to improve caregiver quality of life (primary outcome), and fatigue and burden (secondary outcomes) from baseline to 16 weeks, 2) test whether fatigue and caregiver b...

Source: uow.edu.au