Deans' stroke musings: For Better or for Worse: Health and Marital Quality during Midlife

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.

Monday, August 17, 2020

For Better or for Worse: Health and Marital Quality during Midlife

My mental and physical health rose exponentially after divorce.

My story; I would still be leading a life of quiet desperation.

Why my stroke was the best thing to ever happen to me

Not that I expect others to adopt this attitude.

The latest here:

For Better or for Worse: Health and Marital Quality during Midlife

Eunjin L. Tracy, PhD

, Rebecca L. Utz, PhD

First Published August 12, 2020 Research Article

Abstract

Objective:

To examine how changes in health are associated with marital quality over a 20-year period of midlife. Background:

The health benefit associated with marriage (compared to non-marriage) is well established. Less work has explored how health and changes in a couple’s health are associated with the marital relationship. Method:

We used a sample of continuously married individuals who participated in three waves of the Midlife in the United States study (n = 1768). Multilevel modeling separated within-person changes and between-person differences in the effect of health on marital quality during midlife and older ages.

Results:

Marital support was lower and marital strain was higher for those with worse health relative to peers. Marital quality decreased when health decreased. Effects were particularly strong when spouses’ health statuses became more discrepant.

Conclusion:

Health—of both self and partner—plays an important role in determining the marital quality of married persons during the midlife years.

Keywords chronic illness, health, marital quality, marital strain, midlife