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Kinship Care

, 2022
A relative caregiver (commonly called a kinship caregiver) is rearing about 10 percent of children in the United States. While relative caregivers are typically a child’s grandparent, they can also be other relatives (e.g., aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins) or fictive kin (e.g., godparents). The most prevalent care arrangement is classified as informal,
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Doing One’s Best: Becoming a Kinship Caregiver

Grounded Theory Review: An International Journal, 2020
A kinship family is one where a family member, other than a biological parent, is primarily responsible for the child. In-depth, unstructured interviews with kinship caregivers and children from 15 kinship families were conducted to gain a thorough ...
Kara Vander Linden, Catherine J. Tompkins   +1 more
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Kinnecting Caregivers to Services, Resources, and Supports: Findings from an RCT of Colorado’s Kinship Navigator Program

Societies
This study reflects the evidence-building journey for the Colorado Kinnected kinship navigator program. Colorado Kinnected expands the scope of services, resources, and supports offered to kinship families through an innovative approach that enhances an ...
Greg Forehand, Marc Winokur, Lauren Alessi, Sunil Butler, Jeannie Berzinskas   +4 more
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Kinship Care for the Safety, Permanency, and Well‐being of Children Removed from the Home for Maltreatment: A Systematic Review

Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2014
This Campbell systematic review examines whether kinship care is more effective than foster care in ensuring the safety, permanency and wellbeing of children removed from their home for maltreatment.
Marc Winokur, Amy Holtan, Keri E. Batchelder   +2 more
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Reserves, Injury Severity, and Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury: A CENTER‐TBI Observational Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Reserve refers to the brain's ability to maintain function after an injury and strongly relates to traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes. This study examined (1) whether associations between pre‐injury reserve proxies and outcomes differed across injury severity categories, and (2) whether the impact of injury severity varied across ...
Natascha Ekdahl, Marika C. Möller, Lindsay Wilson, Anne Vik, Toril Skandsen, Jonas Stenberg, CENTER‐TBI participants and investigators   +6 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Developmental Outcomes among Korean Kinship Foster Care Children: Gender Differences

Societies, 2023
(1) Background: This study explored changes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of developmental outcomes among kinship foster care children in the Republic of Korea: and gender differences in the changes; (2) Methods: The study analyzed the
Hyunah Kang, Ick-Joong Chung, Sehyeon Oh
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Evaluating a Pragmatic Strength Alternative for Frailty Measurement and Assessing Its Predictive Capacity Against Established Frailty Instruments in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Frailty occurs prematurely in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is associated with poor health outcomes. We compared the performance of four frailty instruments, including a pragmatic alternative measure using chair sit‐to‐stand (STS), and evaluated their abilities to predict poor health outcomes.
Kylie E. Riggles, Hannah F. Brubeck, Adrienne D. Tanus, Courtney N. Loecker, Punyasha Roul, Bryant R. England, Elizabeth R. Wahl, James S. Andrews, Namrata Singh, Joshua F. Baker, Patricia P. Katz, Dolores M. Shoback, Jose M. Garcia, Ariela R. Orkaby, Katherine D. Wysham   +14 more
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Parenting Experiences of Informal Kinship Caregivers: Similarities and Differences between Grandparents and Other Relatives

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Informal kinship care, an arrangement that is made without the involvement of a child welfare agency or a court, makes up the majority of kinship arrangements in the United States. However, the current literature on informal kinship care is very limited.
Eun Koh, Laura Daughtery, Yongwon Lee, Jude Ozughen   +3 more
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GHRHR Deficiency Enhances Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival and Visual Functions in Experimental Glaucoma by Inhibiting Ferroptosis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Glaucoma, a major cause of blindness, involves retinal ganglion cell (RGC) degeneration. This study shows growth hormone‐releasing hormone receptor (GHRHR) deficiency preserves RGC survival and restores vision, unlike activation which only aids survival.
Yan Tong, Ming Ho Yam, Jiaxin Zhang, Lin Du, Linbin Zhou, Yolanda Wong Ying Yip, Bo Man Ho, Hemlata Bisnauthsing, Jiahui Li, Ivan Kong, Shushu Xu, Changzhen Fu, Karl K.H. So, Joaquim S.L. Vong, Ling‐Ping Cen, Ming‐Ming Yang, Khazeema Yousaf, Mai Har Sham, Sun On Chan, Poemen P. Chan, Chi Pui Pang, Clement C. Tham, Jing Na He, Jian Li, Wai Kit Chu   +24 more
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Book review: Kinship care: Fostering effective family and friends placements. Elaine Farmer and Sue Moyers London, Jessica Kingsley Publications, 2008. 254pp, ISBN 978 1 84310 631 9

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2010
Family and kinship care has a long history. It dates from times when children or young people were taken in to extended family networks or placed with relatives when birth parents or primary carers were unable, for whatever reasons, to provide them a ...
Leon Fulcher
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