Apathy: Why Care?

Leaders must act to prevent care apathy.

RCN general secretary Peter Carter is in no doubt that the overwhelming majority of today’s students start their courses with the right values. He says so from a position of strength, because he visits universities and meets cohorts of new recruits. He is also aware that students and newly qualifi ed nurses are more likely to blow the whistle on poor care than those who have witnessed it for ye...

Apathy and care environments in dementia and measures of activity

Antonakos for the PEAR apathy project. Their great work helped this dissertation generate rigorous and fruitful findings. I also want to thank two NIH/NINR-funded studies— " Wandering: Background and Proximal Factors " (PI: Algase) and " Bioburden Predictors of Diabetic Ulcer Complications " (PI: Gardner)—for providing access to research samples and resources. I am extremely grateful for my dis...

why pregnant women delay prenatal care?

maternity child health is one of the important and essential aspects of health services that must be considered as a priority in administrative programs because mothers and their children more than other people in the community are affected by perilous environmental factors. they are very vulnerable that lead to disease, failure to thrive, inability and death. every year, poor hygiene leads to ...

Poststroke apathy.

Developing a new apathy measurement scale: Dimensional Apathy Scale.

Apathy is both a symptom and syndrome prevalent in neurodegenerative disease, including motor system disorders, that affects motivation to display goal directed functions. Levy and Dubois (2006) suggested three apathetic subtypes, Cognitive, Emotional-affective and Auto-activation, all with discrete neural correlates and functional impairments. The aim of this study was to create a new apathy m...