Understanding health-care professionals' well-being is essential to prevent burnout and maintain a compassionate care ...

If you’re caring for a loved one, your role can vary widely. Depending on the person’s mental and physical health, and how much assistance they want or need, serving as their caregiver can be a ...

There are many ways people interact with one another. Some interactions carry certain expectations and others have no predictability or assumptions. Those with expectations are usually based on ...

The new scientific statement, "Primary Care of Adult Patients After Stroke," acknowledges the importance of primary care in the system of care for patients with stroke, summarizing the available ...

Full-time caregiving is an around-the-clock job, but respite care can give live-in caregivers a short-term break. Caregivers are often managing caring for a loved one with work, other family ...

We gathered on a vast west-facing hillside, as the October sun sank over Tomales Bay. Just when we thought nature’s awesome show was over, a giant harvest moon began to rise over the eastern horizon.

Addressing moral distress means not just obtaining ethics consultation as needed but also dealing with the feeling of powerlessness that often accompanies it. In the last several years, there has been ...

Almost everyone would agree that the presence of a trusted, loving person is crucial when we are ill or when we feel vulnerable. Whenever I ask children under my care what was most important to them ...