The effect of informal caring on mental health among adolescents and young adults in Australia: a population-based longitudinal study When caring for 1–19 h per week, young carers had an MHI-5 score of –1·98 points (95% CI –3·06 to –0·89) compared with when caring for 0 h ...
Canberra’s carers are reporting wellbeing scores well below the national average, according to a recent report released by Carers Australia to coincide with National Carers Week 2021. The2021 Carer Wellbeing Surveyfound ACT carers had an average wellbeing score of only 5...
The 34 studies included in the review were published between 2003 and 2022. There is evidence that this is an emerging research area, with the majority of studies (n = 20) published in the last 5 years. The studies were largely conducted in the US (n = 11) or Australia (n...
Ciarán Cuffe: While LA burns, Fianna Fáil says pro-climate policies are ‘open for discussion’ March 4th to March 8th is Fostering Awareness Week, five days to attract 500 more foster carers at the very least. It is a national crisis! However, to change one child’s life only needs o...
About half of the pwMS receive informal care from their F&F [3, 4], on average 10,5 h per week [4]. People with a severe form of MS need most help from F&F, as much as 8 h a day throughout the day. The amount of support pwMS receive from formal care affects how much ...
An increase in the average weekly time spent giving care at the height of the pandemic was seen in every country surveyed, from carers in Germany providing an additional 3.7 hours of care to China’s carers who spent 15.4 more hours a week, compared to pre-pandemic times. “Carers play a...
Full-time family carers provide over 35 h of care to a person with dementia every week. Means-testeda Universally available Not available Additional taxation These support packages will come at an additional cost to the taxpayer each year. €0*, €50, €100, €150, €200, €300, €400 ...
Most participants had received dementia education previously, either via the ‘understanding dementia’ massive open online course (MOOC) or from Dementia Australia. “It was stuff I already knew. It was at the level that I’d already was well aware of. There was nothing, or if there was ...
Key characteristics of included service user papers are reported in Table2. Most studies were conducted in Europe (UK: 7, Germany: 2, Ireland: 2, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Norway 1 each), whilst three were based in the US (Florida and New York) and one each in Australia, Nigeria and...
Most recent data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) suggests the incidence of upper GI and HPB cancers in Australia is on the rise [4], with nearly 30,000 Australians diagnosed with one of these cancers each year, representing 555 new diagnoses each week [4]. ...