From hospital to home to participation: a position paper on transition planning poststroke

KK Miller, SH Lin, M Neville - Archives of physical medicine and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on a review of the evidence, members of the American Congress of Rehabilitation
Medicine Stroke Group's Movement Interventions Task Force offer these 5 recommendations …

Telephone interventions, delivered by healthcare professionals, for providing education and psychosocial support for informal caregivers of adults with diagnosed …

M Corry, K Neenan, S Brabyn… - Cochrane Database of …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Maintaining care for ill persons in the community is heavily dependent on
support from unpaid caregivers. Many caregivers, however, find themselves in a caring role …

Activity performance, participation, and quality of life among adults in the chronic stage after acquired brain injury—the feasibility of an occupation-based …

A Beit Yosef, JM Jacobs, S Shenkar, J Shames… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Objective: Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a leading cause of long-term disability. This calls for
effective and accessible interventions to support participation in the community over time …

Comparison of clinical care and in-hospital outcomes of Asian American and white patients with acute ischemic stroke

S Song, L Liang, GC Fonarow, EE Smith… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although overall stroke incidence and mortality in the United States is improving,
little is known about the characteristics and clinical outcomes of acute ischemic stroke in …

Social support in cancer: how do patients want us to help?

BD Korotkin, M Hoerger, S Voorhees… - Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Social support is fundamentally important to the well-being of patients with
cancer, and informal caregivers often wish they had better insight into how to help. The aims …

“This is our life now. Our new normal”: A qualitative study of the unmet needs of carers of stroke survivors

AMJ Denham, O Wynne, AL Baker, NJ Spratt, A Turner… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Many stroke survivors require care from informal carers such as family members and friends
who may experience adverse impacts. This study aimed to qualitatively explore the unmet …

Caregivers navigating rehabilitative care for people with aphasia after stroke: a multi‐lens perspective

JS Shafer, PR Shafer, KL Haley - International journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Up to 40% of stroke survivors acquire aphasia and require long‐term caregiver
assistance after discharge from the hospital. Caregivers assume multiple roles as they help …

Feasibility of a traditional and teletreatment approach to mirror therapy in patients with phantom limb pain: a process evaluation performed alongside a randomized …

A Rothgangel, S Braun, R Smeets… - Clinical …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To evaluate the delivery, acceptance and experiences regarding a traditional and
teletreatment approach to mirror therapy as delivered in a randomized controlled trial …

Abandoned to the strains of daily life: a qualitative study of the long-term experiences in partners to persons after a mild to moderate stroke

C Ytterberg, L von Koch, A Erikson - Disability and Rehabilitation, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: To describe the experiences of everyday life over 6 years after stroke, from the
perspectives of partners to persons after stroke. Materials and methods: Semi structured …

The importance of the built environment in person-Centred rehabilitation at home: study protocol

M Kylén, L Von Koch, H Pessah-Rasmussen… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Health services will change dramatically as the prevalence of home healthcare increases.
Only technologically advanced acute care will be performed in hospitals. This—along with …