2012-05-24T14:05:26Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/caregivers.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120097.html Apr 1, 2012 Apr 1, 2012

The substantial expansion in the RN workforce between 2005 and 2010 is largely a temporary bubble that is likely to burst between 2010 and 2015 as the unemployment rate falls.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1188.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

California has taken steps to implement components of a comprehensive professional development system for its early child education workforce. However, further advances are needed and more information is required to identify possible inefficiencies in the current system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP356.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Uses two sources of representative data, the 2005 National Household Education Survey and the 2007 RAND California Preschool Study, to describe child care and early learning arrangements for the approximately 2.8 million California children ages 0 to 5 who are younger than the age at which they would enter kindergarten.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9638.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Offers recommendations for improving the education and training of California's early childhood workforce.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120062.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

With or without electronic charting options, nurses spend about 19% of their time completing documentation, compared with all other categories of care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9568.html Jan 19, 2011 Jan 19, 2011

Reports the results of a longitudinal study of youth from military families and their caregivers concerning their emotional well-being and how well they are coping with servicemembers' extended deployments.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR913.html Jan 19, 2011 Jan 19, 2011

Children and spouses of military members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan report facing challenges as family relationships change and they assume more responsibility for household duties during deployment.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/01/19.html Jan 19, 2011 Jan 19, 2011

Children and spouses of military members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan report facing challenges as family relationships change and they assume more responsibility for household duties during deployment.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100267.html Jan 1, 2011 Jan 1, 2011

Nurses play a key role in educating cancer patients and their caregivers on how to effectively cope with and manage cancer. African American caregivers may benefit from interventions tailored to their specific caregiving experience.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110032.html Dec 31, 2010 Dec 31, 2010

A significant amount of clinical cancer care is delivered in the home by informal caregivers, such as family and friends, who often lack training and have limited resources.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110071.html Dec 31, 2010 Dec 31, 2010

Caregivers affiliated with the National Guard and those with more months of deployment report significantly poorer emotional well-being, and more household and relationship hassles.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000195.html Aug 31, 2010 Aug 31, 2010

Only 42 percent of the 354 million annual visits in the U.S. for acute care—treatment for newly arising health problems—are made to patients' personal physicians. The rest are made to emergency departments (28 percent), specialists (20 percent), or outpatient departments (7 percent).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081126.html Oct 31, 2008 Oct 31, 2008

In 2005, the VA created consumer-providers (CPs)—individuals with experience of serious mental illness who support others with similar conditions. Data from the groups suggest that hiring and employing CPs within VA has been feasible, beneficial, and acceptable to most members of clinical teams.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080117.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Assesses evidence about interventions to improve palliative and end-of-life care.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081101.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Reviews evidence on psychosocial interventions for non-professional careers of people with Parkinson's disease. Most studies were not designed to assess the clinical- or cost-effectiveness of the intervention for the careers.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20071034.html Dec 31, 2006 Dec 31, 2006

<p>The literature summaries that support each indicator judged valid by the expert panel are described.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050714.html Dec 31, 2004 Dec 31, 2004

<p>The transfer of care from the hospital to home settings has shifted responsibility for the day-to-day care of the long-term, medically complex patient to the family.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030522.html Dec 31, 2002 Dec 31, 2002

<p>The authors' objective was to explore, in a predominantly Latino inner-city population, why caregivers bring their children with asthma to the ED (emergency department).</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020611.html Dec 31, 2001 Dec 31, 2001

<p>hroughout the course of the disease, routine use of community resources allows care to be provided by a network of professionals, many of whom will be specialists in Alzheimer's disease.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020606.html Dec 31, 2001 Dec 31, 2001

<p>The authors found a strong association between caregiver dissatisfaction (caregiver dissatisfied with the level of care the home care participant was currently receiving) and an increased likelihood of hospitalization.</p>