Kudos to Katy Read and the Star Tribune team who published a series of articles in The Good Life on the impact of social isolation on seniors and what Minneapolis/St. Paul area senior care providers ...
Lessons Learned from Dr. Bill Thomas’s ‘Disrupt Dementia’ Workshop
“We’re here to disrupt aging,” said Dr. Bill Thomas, an author, entrepreneur, musician, teacher, farmer and physician whose wide-ranging work explores the terrain of human aging. Perhaps best known as the founder of The Eden ...
The Newest Risk for Seniors’ Health Deadlier than Obesity
Are You Ready to Handle It? There’s no pill for it and few doctors address it, yet it increases the risk of early death for seniors at TWICE the rate of obesity. It’s not a ...
Reducing Readmissions: Where’s the Algorithm for Loneliness?
When was the last time you asked the seniors you serve about their loneliness? How about feelings of isolation? Few health or senior care professionals are even raising this topic, mostly because they don’t know ...
Patient Engagement Barrier: Inner Kill
Your patient looks lost. Maybe she is just overwhelmed but she actually seems different than that. She’s distant and somewhat unresponsive. She seems indecisive and passive. You wonder whether you’re reaching her. Does she understand ...
Loneliness a Re-Hospitalization Risk for More Seniors
Health does not stand in isolation. We are whole people, and solutions for the current health and senior care challenges need to look at the big picture, i.e., the whole person as well as the ...
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