Hello everyone,
Hope you’ve had a great week. Here’s a look at some new expectations and new developments in health and wellness.
Hope you’ve had a great week. Here’s a look at some new expectations and new developments in health and wellness.
Submitted by Jamie
How Health Care In The U.S. May Change After COVID: An Optimist's Outlook
The pandemic has created medicine's greatest generation. By shepherding this country through the crisis, an entire generation of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and administrators learned an entirely new set of skills: public communication, front-line innovation, data-driven decision-making. An outside force — a new virus — accelerated much-needed change in health care, but the work is just beginning. The future of care is now on us.
How Health Care In The U.S. May Change After COVID: An Optimist's Outlook
The pandemic has created medicine's greatest generation. By shepherding this country through the crisis, an entire generation of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and administrators learned an entirely new set of skills: public communication, front-line innovation, data-driven decision-making. An outside force — a new virus — accelerated much-needed change in health care, but the work is just beginning. The future of care is now on us.
Submitted by Jamie
Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die
“It’s actually in facing the darkest realities of life that we find light in them,” punk-rock fan, Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble explains. She’s made it her mission to revive the practice of memento mori, intentionally thinking about your own death as a means of appreciating the present.
Submitted by Melissa
Huntington's Disease Awareness Day is May 15th
Tomorrow marks International Huntington’s Disease Awareness Day. The Huntington’s Disease Society of America(HDSA) this year is focusing on educating the world through social media about the impact of the disease on families. “Each May, Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month gives the HD community a platform to turn up the global volume and educate more people about this devastating and rare brain disease,” said Louise Vetter, HDSA’s CEO. The society’s #LetsTalkAboutHD campaign is designed to help families share their stories, videos, and photos on social media.
Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by uncontrolled jerking and writhing movements known as chorea, loss of thinking ability, and psychiatric problems. It was first documented in 1872 by a 22-year-old American doctor named George Huntington. It is thought to affect three to seven per every 100,000 people of European ancestry.
Submitted by Skyler
Fixing the Children’s Mental Health Crisis: It Takes a Community
Sobering statistics from the National Alliance on Mental Illness show that 1 in every 5 teens has or will develop a serious mental illness and that 50% of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin in children by age 14. If left untreated, these disorders can wreak havoc on families and communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has only made the situation worse.
Submitted by Pete
Let’s banish the term ‘patient’ from the health care lexicon
With the rise of consumer centricity, multiple industries have made a conscious decision to choose language that better reflects the desired experience for their customers, er…I mean guests, members, passengers. Can you imagine referring to the people we serve each day as clients? How might that change the way we think about their experience and how we interact with them? Read how one physician transformed his practice by doing just that.
New Data from the National Alliance for Caregiving
Two reports were released looking at trends in caregiving in 2020. A few highlights:
Huntington's Disease Awareness Day is May 15th
Tomorrow marks International Huntington’s Disease Awareness Day. The Huntington’s Disease Society of America(HDSA) this year is focusing on educating the world through social media about the impact of the disease on families. “Each May, Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month gives the HD community a platform to turn up the global volume and educate more people about this devastating and rare brain disease,” said Louise Vetter, HDSA’s CEO. The society’s #LetsTalkAboutHD campaign is designed to help families share their stories, videos, and photos on social media.
Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by uncontrolled jerking and writhing movements known as chorea, loss of thinking ability, and psychiatric problems. It was first documented in 1872 by a 22-year-old American doctor named George Huntington. It is thought to affect three to seven per every 100,000 people of European ancestry.
Submitted by Skyler
Fixing the Children’s Mental Health Crisis: It Takes a Community
Sobering statistics from the National Alliance on Mental Illness show that 1 in every 5 teens has or will develop a serious mental illness and that 50% of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin in children by age 14. If left untreated, these disorders can wreak havoc on families and communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has only made the situation worse.
Submitted by Pete
Let’s banish the term ‘patient’ from the health care lexicon
With the rise of consumer centricity, multiple industries have made a conscious decision to choose language that better reflects the desired experience for their customers, er…I mean guests, members, passengers. Can you imagine referring to the people we serve each day as clients? How might that change the way we think about their experience and how we interact with them? Read how one physician transformed his practice by doing just that.
New Data from the National Alliance for Caregiving
Two reports were released looking at trends in caregiving in 2020. A few highlights:
- The number of Americans providing unpaid care has increased 22% since 2015
- 26% of Americans are caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia (up from 22% in 2015)
- 21% of caregivers report their own health as fair to poor
- Caregivers of adults ages 50 or older are a diverse group
- 61% are non-Hispanic White
- 17% are Hispanic/Latinx
- 14% are African American
- 5% are Asian American and Pacific Islander
- 3% are some other race/ethnicity
- 61% of caregivers of those ages 50 or older are women
- 62% of caregivers of older adults also work while providing care
- Caregivers of older adults are themselves 50.1 years old, on average.
Let’s Learn to Reject Ageism During Older Americans Month
Older Americans Month highlights our responsibility to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live a fulfilling life, with dignity and purpose. One way we can all improve seniors’ lives is to recognize and combat ageism, actively promote a positive depiction of aging, and ensure our communities are built upon age-friendly public policies. This editorial from Serving Seniors in San Diego highlights the efforts they are making to combat ageism.
Bose Launches First FDA-Cleared DTC Hearing Aids
In a clinical study with researchers at Northwestern University, Bose CustomTune technology yielded results that were as good if not better than those achieved by traditional prescription-fitting methods used by audiologists. They will be sold directly from Bose for $849.95 starting May 18th in five states: Massachusetts, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas — with nationwide availability to follow.
The pandemic made digital healthcare real and people aren’t going back
My colleague Andy Ross recently shared some data from Cedar’s 2020 Healthcare Consumer Experience Studyand “The Great Awakening” from The Harris Poll that reinforce rising expectations when it comes to digital healthcare.
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