Healthcare standards and patient care continues to improve.

Alzheimer's caregiving isn't a one-person task and can take a toll on your own personal health. Find out where to ask for help and how to spread the load.

EHRs offer new possibilities in patient care for all.

Support groups, even talk shows may help caregivers have better overall personal health.

Caregivers have a very difficult duty to care for others. These tips will help them have the best personal health they can to be able to be the best for the ones they care for, as well as themselves.

Family members who make life-or-death decisions for loved ones are at high risk for anxiety and depression. Here are some tips on how to ease the strain.

Resources needed for behavioral health keep growing as the funds continue to be cut. Recent incidents show how poorly this can affect not only the patients in need, but also the entire community.

It can be difficult to care for a father or parent, and sometimes especially difficult during the holidays or a day like Father's Day. It is important to remember that our parent is still the same person, and to focus on remembering the good times from the past.

HIPPA's Privacy Rule sets limits on who can access individual's protected health information (PHI). Know the rights of yourself and those you care for.

A New Jersey system recognizes the importance of PHRs and EHRs and offers consumers a free online option for keeping records. Is this the future of healthcare?

Caregivers will have new competition with technology for positions, yet cameras could be helpful, even to caregivers... Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Personally controlled electronic health records could mean changes for caregivers.

This new system will allow patients to create, manage and maintain their own personal health records in a safe an innovative way. This will be additionally helpful to caregivers because it will allow physicians and patients to access all information about a person's health record from a single card, centralizing all information.

Support groups can help caregivers cope.

Don and Marlene Hesson are enjoying their 60th year of marriage together at home. After a hospitalization and stay at a nursing facility, Don Hesson is now at home because of the state's PASSPORT program.

Little signs of Alzheimer's disease began to appear this past year. He would drift off into his own little world during dinner. He could not find his way back to the table after using the restroom while celebrating New Year’s Eve with my family. He would ask five times in a day when I was leaving for Chicago.

In early January it was confirmed - my grandpa Stanley Zuba has Alzheimer’s disease.

When Sherry McGowan lost her father several years ago, her mother not only lost her husband of 53 years but her constant caregiver.

People who have trouble understanding health information are more likely to end up in the emergency room or the hospital and are less likely to get cost-saving preventive care such as flu shots or mammograms, U.S. government researchers reported on Monday.

Advance directives, which allow people to plan ahead for end-of-life care, can be too vague to cover many medical situations.

If you thought the new touch-screen technology was reserved for iPhones and other high-tech mobile communication devices favored by young people and working professionals, think again.

For more and more people, computers and software are becoming a critical part of their health care.

Maze of local options available but it's not easy knowing where to go

As Health Literacy Missouri’s webmaster, I spend a lot of time behind a computer. But recently, I was lucky enough to get out of our Saint Louis office and travel through Missouri to learn about health literacy projects outside of our city. I brought back lots of stories.

My widowed father-in-law didn’t tell anyone about his symptoms — not his doctor, and not his grown son, who found out only when a member of the extended family called to say my husband needed to fly across the country immediately to see his dad.

Technology, Villages and Caring Individuals Are Allowing Seniors to Continue Residing at Home

Like many other baby boomers, Kim Niccum of Kirkwood has experienced the stress of helping an aging parent cope with chronic illnesses while taking care of her own home and work responsibilities.

For patient advocate Ben Heywood, personal experience trumps political rhetoric when it comes to this week's health care repeal vote.

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention calls for new standards, including bigger font sizes and more explicit instructions to improve patient comprehension.

A new survey sponsored by the National Alliance for Caregiving and UnitedHealthcare highlights the ways emerging technologies can alleviate the financial and emotional burdens on family members caring for sick or disabled loved ones.

Taking care of an aging or ailing relative with health-care issues can be stressful and confusing, but a growing number of free or cheap smartphone apps aim to help caregivers keep track of medication dosages, nutritional requirements, and other daily health-care needs.