(Press-News.org) To address a crisis of unmet mental health needs among seniors with dementia and their family caregivers amid a shortage of mental health providers with expertise treating this population, McLean Hospital, a member of Mass General Brigham, has entered into an agreement to offer strategic advisory services and professional education to Rippl Care. Rippl provides specialty dementia care and is pioneering a new care model in an effort to expand access to high quality, wraparound behavioral healthcare for seniors, their families and caregivers. Under McLean’s agreement with Rippl Care, leaders in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry will provide advisory and consultative services to Rippl teams and plan to co-develop a professional educational and training program, the Rippl Academy. Mass General Brigham Ventures is a founding investor in Rippl Care.
As part of the agreement, McLean will provide these services to Rippl teams, thereby enhancing Rippl’s ability to deliver professional education and training for licensed care professionals (doctors, nurse practitioners and social workers) along with community health workers about research-informed, evidence-based practices working with seniors with dementia. A goal of such efforts would be to reduce emergency visits and inpatient admissions for mental health crises that are so disruptive for patients and their families.
McLean experts providing advisory services include Ipsit Vahia, MD, interim chief of geriatric psychiatry, Marie Clouqueur, LICSW, social worker and specialist in caregiver support, and Sara Weisenbach, Ph.D., ABPP, chief of neuropsychology .
“It is impossible to overstate the burden that dementia poses on people living with this condition, as well as their caregivers. Moreover, most people do not have access to the type of specialized care that dementia requires. The lack of a trained workforce to support such care is a crisis.” said Vahia. “Providing support to Rippl allows us to scale the expertise of McLean clinicians and expand access to efficient and effective evidence-based care through an innovative delivery approach.”
“When we founded Rippl, McLean Hospital was our very first stop. No medical institution in the country knows this disease better and the McLean team’s deep expertise developing new and innovative approaches to psyche-related care is unmatched,” said Kris Engskov, Rippl Co-founder and CEO. “We couldn’t be more excited about pioneering this new approach with such a talented group of clinicians.
Vast care gaps for millions of patients and their caregivers
Approximately 6.7 million Americans aged 65 and older currently live with Alzheimer's and other dementias, a figure expected to double by 2060, according to recent statistics. Last year, more than 11 million family members and other unpaid caregivers provided an estimated 18 billion hours of care to people with dementia.
People with dementia can experience significant mental health symptoms, including anxiety, depression, delusion and aggression, which can lead to challenging behaviors.
“I see firsthand the enormous toll that behavioral and mental health manifestations of dementia take on patients and families, and unfortunately many of them do not get support until the problem is advanced, if they receive support at all,” said Clouqueur. “There are interventions that not only help to relieve the significant distress experienced by those living with dementia and their families, but also help them live meaningful lives in spite of the many challenges. Our work is to empower providers like Rippl to integrate best practices into dementia care.”
“This project aligns closely with McLean’s fundamental mission to provide compassionate expert mental health care to communities in great need,” added Scott L. Rauch, M.D., president and psychiatrist in chief, McLean Hospital. “Working closely with Rippl to share McLean’s research and clinical expertise in senior mental health provides a unique opportunity to target the major gaps that exist in mental health care for this underserved population.”
ABOUT McLEAN HOSPITAL
McLean Hospital has a continuous commitment to put people first in patient care, innovation and discovery, and shared knowledge related to mental health. It is consistently named the #1 freestanding psychiatric hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. McLean Hospital is the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system. www.mcleanhospital.org.
END
McLean Hospital collaborates with Rippl Care to address urgent mental health needs of seniors living with dementia and their family caregivers
Under McLean’s agreement with Rippl Care, McLean will provide strategic consultation for the co-development of the Rippl Academy’s core curriculum, the proprietary professional education program for Rippl’s senior care teams
2023-10-09
ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:
Heart disease risk, prevention and management redefined
2023-10-09
Advisory Highlights:
A new American Heart Association presidential advisory identifies the strong connections among cardiovascular disease (CVD), kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity, and suggests redefining CVD risk, prevention and management.
The advisory defines cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome for the first time.
CKM syndrome ranges from Stage 0, or no risk factors and an entirely preventive focus, to Stage 4, the highest-risk stage with cardiovascular disease. Stage 4 may also include kidney failure.
The advisory urges use of a new tool that will predict someone’s likelihood of heart attack, stroke and/or heart failure ...
Clinical trial demonstrates benefits of solriamfetol for adults with ADHD
2023-10-09
BOSTON – Although several medications are approved to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), some individuals experience limited benefits from the drugs or develop side effects from their use. A recent clinical trial published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of Mass General Brigham (MGB), has demonstrated that the drug solriamfetol may be an effective alternative for managing ADHD in adults.
Solriamfetol is currently approved in the United States for ...
Tropical ecosystems more reliant on emerging aquatic insects, study finds, potentially putting them at greater risk
2023-10-09
A team of researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Campinas in Brazil has found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ecosystems and are therefore more vulnerable to disruptions to the links between land and water.
The study, published in the journal Ecology Letters, is the first to directly compare the interconnections between land and water in tropical and temperate environments via the emergence of aquatic insects. The researchers used a technique called stable isotope analysis to trace ...
Plate tectonic surprise: Utrecht geologist unexpectedly finds remnants of a lost mega-plate
2023-10-09
Utrecht University geologist Suzanna van de Lagemaat has reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. Her colleagues in Utrecht had predicted its existence over 10 years ago based on fragments of old tectonic plates found deep in the Earth’s mantle. Van de Lagemaat reconstructed lost plates through field research and detailed investigations of the mountain belts of Japan, Borneo, the Philippines, New Guinea, and New Zealand. To her surprise, she found that oceanic remnants on northern Borneo must have belonged to the long-suspected plate, which scientists have named Pontus. She has now reconstructed ...
Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings
2023-10-09
An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analysing ancient tree-rings found in the French Alps.
The radiocarbon spike was caused by a massive solar storm, the biggest ever identified.
A similar solar storm today would be catastrophic for modern technological society – potentially wiping out telecommunications and satellite systems, causing massive electricity grid blackouts, and costing us billions of pounds.
The academics are warning of the importance ...
Should a more individualized model replace the current method for determining which people should be screened for lung cancer?
2023-10-09
A new study found that an alternative model to identify patients with lung cancer eligible for screening was more accurate than the currently used method based on the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) criteria. The results are published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths, and using low-dose computed tomography scans to screen people who are at elevated risk for lung cancer reduces lung cancer deaths. The USPSTF criteria use age and smoking history to determine ...
Is this how antidepressants work, and why they take weeks to kick-in?
2023-10-09
Type of work: peer-reviewed/randomised controlled trial/people
SSRI antidepressants normally take a few weeks before any showing mental health benefits, but how come it takes so long? Now a study from a group of clinicians and scientists provides the first human evidence that this is due to physical changes in the brain leading to greater brain plasticity developing over the first few weeks of SSRI intake. This may also begin to explain one of the mechanisms of how antidepressants work.
This work is presented at the ECNP conference in Barcelona on 9th October. This ...
Teaching expectant mothers to bond with their babies
2023-10-09
Type of work: Peer-reviewed / experimental study / people
Up to a third of mothers don’t bond well with their babies after birth, causing intense emotional distress to both mother and baby1. Now researchers have found that they can train at-risk expectant mothers to recognise and regulate emotions better, potentially reducing their risk of postpartum depression.
Presenting the work at the ECNP Congress in Barcelona, researcher Dr Anne Bjertrup said:
People generally have an automatic tendency to see the positive or negative in any situation. In previous studies we saw that certain ...
Young children who are close to their parents are more likely to grow up kind, helpful and ‘prosocial’
2023-10-09
A loving bond between parents and their children early in life significantly increases the child’s tendency to be ‘prosocial’, and act with kindness and empathy towards others, research indicates.
The University of Cambridge study used data from more than 10,000 people born between 2000 and 2002 to understand the long-term interplay between our early relationships with our parents, prosociality and mental health. It is one of the first studies to look at how these characteristics interact over a long period spanning childhood and adolescence.
The researchers ...
The hidden scars: Stigmatization a major impact of skin diseases across Europe
2023-10-09
(Lugano, Monday, 9 October 2023) A major pan-European study has revealed that almost all patients affected by skin diseases face embarrassment, with the psychological burden compounding the physical impact of living with the disease.1,2
The Burden of Skin Disease in Europe, published today in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (JEADV), analysed 19,015 individuals with a range of skin diseases and revealed the huge psychological toll of living with a disease. The diseases examined included, amongst others, fungal skin infections, acne, atopic dermatitis (eczema), alopecia, psoriasis and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
With high levels of stigmatisation, ...
LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES:
Insulin resistance is linked to over 30 diseases – and to early death in women, study of people in the UK finds
Innovative semaglutide hydrogel could reduce diabetes shots to once a month
Weight loss could reduce the risk of severe infections in people with diabetes, UK research suggests
Long-term exposure to air pollution and a lack of green space increases the risk of hospitalization for respiratory conditions
Better cardiovascular health in early pregnancy may offset high genetic risk
Artificial intelligence method transforms gene mutation prediction in lung cancer: DeepGEM data releases at IASLC 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer
Antibody–drug conjugate I-DXd shows clinically meaningful response in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer
IASLC Global Survey on biomarker testing reveals progress and persistent barriers in lung cancer biomarker testing
Research shows pathway to developing predictive biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitors
Just how dangerous is Great Salt Lake dust? New research looks for clues
Maroulas appointed Associate Vice Chancellor, Director of AI Tennessee
New chickadee research finds cognitive skills impact lifespan
Cognitive behavioral therapy enhances brain circuits to relieve depression
Terasaki Institute awarded $2.3 Million grant from NIH for organ transplantation research using organs-on-a-chip technology
Atoms on the edge
Postdoc takes multipronged approach to muon detection
Mathematical proof: Five satellites needed for precise navigation
Scalable, multi-functional device lays groundwork for advanced quantum applications
Falling for financial scams? It may signal early Alzheimer’s disease
Integrating MRI and OCT for new insights into brain microstructure
Designing a normative neuroimaging library to support diagnosis of traumatic brain injury
Department of Energy announces $68 million in funding for artificial intelligence for scientific research
DOE, ORNL announce opportunity to define future of high-performance computing
Molecular simulations, supercomputing lead to energy-saving biomaterials breakthrough
Low-impact yoga and exercise found to help older women manage urinary incontinence
Genetic studies reveal new insights into cognitive impairment in schizophrenia
Researcher develops technology to provide cleaner energy and cleaner water
Expect the unexpected: nanoscale silver unveils intrinsic self-healing abilities
nTIDE September 2024 Jobs Report: Gains in employment for people with disabilities appear to level off after reducing gaps with non-disabled workers
Wiley enhances NMR Spectral Library Collection with extensive new databases
[Press-News.org] McLean Hospital collaborates with Rippl Care to address urgent mental health needs of seniors living with dementia and their family caregiversUnder McLean’s agreement with Rippl Care, McLean will provide strategic consultation for the co-development of the Rippl Academy’s core curriculum, the proprietary professional education program for Rippl’s senior care teams