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Mindfulness, one of the most common forms of meditation, is a skill that must be cultivated and practiced. With some training and discipline, it can help anyone live more fully in the moment.
A professor of child development explains why it’s OK – recommended, in fact – to respond to an infant’s every cry, sob and whimper.
Reflection Rooms support people making sense of experiences related to dying and death. They provide an immersive space to read stories written by others and write and share their own stories.
Given the clear importance of language skills for lifelong outcomes, it is critical to set children up early for language success.
The lack of sexuality education, and common myths and misconceptions about the sexuality of people with intellectual disability can lead to caregivers being reluctant ‘jailers’.
Family caregivers of residents in longterm care homes experienced a collective trauma as they were kept away from their loved ones during the pandemic. This isolation has long-ranging impacts.
Family and friends provide nearly all the care needed by stroke patients after they leave hospital. Caregiving can be rewarding, but it can also be overwhelming and take a toll on caregivers’ health.
Women have found innovative and powerful ways to cope during the pandemic – largely because official policy has failed them. That must change.
It’s time to complete the picture and recognize public expenditures on supports for family caregivers as social investments in the well-being of individuals, families and communities
With advances in technology, robots and artificial intelligence have increasingly more sophisticated encounters with humans.
Human beings evolved to nurture – and that drive can extend to children who aren’t your own and even to members of other species.
Some older patients forego the food provided at their health care facility because it isn’t aligned with their religious and cultural preferences.
New research shows that though we are good at making healthy choices for those we care for, we are often subsequently less good at taking care of ourselves.
Estimates suggest that every 12 seconds, a child somewhere in the world loses a caregiver to the coronavirus pandemic.
Throughout the pandemic, community carers have risked their own health and well-being, but have struggled for even basic support and equipment.
The government proposes to fix social care and rescue the NHS in one go. The levy it proposes risks only scratching the surface
A series of studies shows people taking care of loved ones equate effort with love, making them feel guilty for using a product that reduces that effort.
New studies highlight the difficulties cancer patients have when discussing their illness with family and medical teams.
Children use play to express themselves and process their emotions. Here’s how parents can make the most of play time together.
Top contributors
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Assistant Professor, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University
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Research fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Professor and Co-Director, Research on Aging, Policies and Practice, University of Alberta
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Regents and Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University
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PhD Candidate in Aging, Health, and Well-Being/Director of Programs, University of Waterloo
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Doctoral Candidate, Aging, Health and Well-being, University of Waterloo
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
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Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor, Faculty of Science, McMaster University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Person Centred Interventions for Older Adults with Multimorbidity and their Caregivers, School of Nursing, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Washington University in St. Louis
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, Northeastern University
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Health and Policy, Chapman University
