Deans' stroke musings: Return to work predictors of stroke survivors and their spousal caregivers

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.

What this blog is for:

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.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Return to work predictors of stroke survivors and their spousal caregivers

This told me absolutely nothing useful.

Return to work predictors of stroke survivors and their spousal caregivers

Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, and Rehabilitation , Volume 51(1) , Pgs. 111-124.

NARIC Accession Number: J76629. What's this?
ISSN: 1051-9815.
Author(s): Schulz, Celia H.; Godwin, Kyler M.; Hersch, Gayle I.; Hyde, Leslie K.; Irabor, Jocelyn J.; Ostwald, Sharon K..
Publication Year: 2017.
Number of Pages: 24.
Abstract: Study examined the return-to-work (RTW) patterns of stroke survivors and their spousal caregivers in the first 12 months after hospital discharge. One hundred fifty-nine caregiver-survivor dyads were examined for their RTW patterns at baseline (post hospital discharge) and then at 3-month intervals for one year. Relationships were determined between work and gender, age, ethnicity, education, type of insurance, type of stroke, location of stroke, motor and cognitive functional status, depression, mutuality, and life satisfaction. Low levels of RTW by stroke survivors (7.5 percent) and a small decrease in the percentage of working caregivers (from 45.3 percent to 40.35 percent) were found one year post baseline. Variables that predicted RTW changed over the five data points (baseline, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months) except for younger age for the caregiver, which was consistently significant across all data points. Three case scenarios are used to illustrate some of the more typical patterns found. Findings indicate further research is needed regarding the RTW needs of stroke survivors and their spousal caregivers, particularly what role the occupational therapist may play in facilitating that process.
Descriptor Terms: CAREGIVERS, CLIENT CHARACTERISTICS, DEMOGRAPHICS, EMPLOYMENT REENTRY, FUNCTIONAL STATUS, SPOUSES, STROKE.

Can this document be ordered through NARIC's document delivery service*?: Y.

Citation: Schulz, Celia H., Godwin, Kyler M., Hersch, Gayle I., Hyde, Leslie K., Irabor, Jocelyn J., Ostwald, Sharon K.. (2017). Return to work predictors of stroke survivors and their spousal caregivers. Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, and Rehabilitation , 51(1), Pgs. 111-124. Retrieved 10/11/2017, from REHABDATA database.