Deans' stroke musings: Men lacking a caregiver face a greater risk of being placed in a nursing home after stroke

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, October 27, 2017

Men lacking a caregiver face a greater risk of being placed in a nursing home after stroke

This is a secondary problem,solve the primary problem of not getting survivors to 100% recovery and this problem goes away. A complete failure of your stroke medical 'professionals' to get you there. Blame the right people and solve the correct problem. Stop blaming the victim for not having a caregiver.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-men-lacking-caregiver-greater-nursing.html

A Journal of the American Geriatrics Society study found that in men aged 65 and older who survived an ischemic stroke, the lack of an available caregiver was associated with triple the risk of nursing home placement within five years. A similar risk was not seen in women.

For the analysis, researcher examined data from Medicare claims from 2003-2013 and interview results from the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.
The findings suggest that clinicians should remain cognizant of the important role caregivers play in helping older adults remain independent.
"Our research highlights older adults as being vulnerable to the loss of independent living if they cannot identify anyone to care for them," said lead author Dr. Justin Blackburn, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "This is particularly true for older men, who may be unable to access or reluctant to use formal services delivered within their home or community."

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More information: Justin Blackburn et al, Men Lacking a Caregiver Have Greater Risk of Long-Term Nursing Home Placement After Stroke, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2017). DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15166

Journal reference: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society