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The Healthcare Team Includes The Caregiver: Family Fact Sheet #3, Eastern Agency On Aging, University Of Maine Center On Aging, Aroostook Area Agency On Aging, Senior Spectrum, Rosscare, Norumbega Medical, Horizons Health Services, Indian Township Tribal Health Center, Bucksport Regional Health Center Oct 2003

The Healthcare Team Includes The Caregiver: Family Fact Sheet #3, Eastern Agency On Aging, University Of Maine Center On Aging, Aroostook Area Agency On Aging, Senior Spectrum, Rosscare, Norumbega Medical, Horizons Health Services, Indian Township Tribal Health Center, Bucksport Regional Health Center

Maine Center on Aging Service and Consultation

As an informal caregiver to an older relative, it is important to properly communicate information in order to ensure the best possible care of this individual. Open discussion between the physician and the informal caregiver will allow for the best possible options to be chosen in regard to treatment and cost.


Single Versus Multiple Drug Focus In Substance Abuse Clinical Trials Research, Nancy M. Petry May 2003

Single Versus Multiple Drug Focus In Substance Abuse Clinical Trials Research, Nancy M. Petry

UCHC Articles - Research

Complex patterns of multiple substance use pose clinical and methodological challenges for substance abuse clinical trials research. To increase measurement precision and internal validity, the modal approach has been to target both treatment interventions and outcome assessment to a single class of abused substance. This strategy warrants reconsideration because it entails limitations in recruitment feasibility and generalization of study findings. This report reviews pros and cons of single versus multiple targeted drugs, suggests guidelines for choosing between these strategies and outlines methods for broadening the scope of substance abuse clinical trails to take abuse of multiple substances into account. We …


Pediatric Feeding Problems: A Behavior Analytic Approach To Assessment And Treatment., Marylouise E. Kerwin Jan 2003

Pediatric Feeding Problems: A Behavior Analytic Approach To Assessment And Treatment., Marylouise E. Kerwin

Faculty Scholarship for the College of Science & Mathematics

Although eating is considered an automatic physiologic process, many children experience feeding difficulties. The purpose of this article is to present a behavior analytic conceptualization of feeding problems and to summarize the empirically supported behavioral interventions for these problems. While negative reinforcement appears to maintain food refusal, classical conditioning may contribute to its initiation. Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior with escape extinction is an empirically supported intervention for feeding problems and has been successfully implemented by trained staff or parents, in multiple settings, with maintained gains over time and generalization to new foods for many children. While the efficacy of …


Level Of Motivation, Treatment Modality, And Change In Parenting Skills Among Parents Involved In A Child Protective Service Agency, Marielia Gavlick Jan 2003

Level Of Motivation, Treatment Modality, And Change In Parenting Skills Among Parents Involved In A Child Protective Service Agency, Marielia Gavlick

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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