Best of 2015: 72% of Us Are Wrong About Aging: Calling bullshit on aging in place.
Although it was not posted that long ago today’s best of 2015 posts from our Aging Audaciously series is most definitely worth re-running.
The last disruption to how we might want to spend our retirement years was a pop culture revolution led by four women: Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia. The Golden Girls changed the conversation back in the 1980s by showing women choosing to team up and live life together.
One recurring theme of the show: Dorothy’s mom Sophia gets mouthy and Dorothy says, “Shady Pines, Ma.” Shady Pines is, of course, an assisted living facility.
Moving to a senior living community was, and ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
Best of 2015: Why Don’t We Take Tanning As Seriously As Tobacco?
Back in May being to celebrate Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event we co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are ran a series on skin cancer. Today’s best of 2015 posts is from that series.
In 2009, upon review of the science on tanning beds and cancer, the International Agency for Research on Cancer assigned tanning beds a class 1 carcinogen, joining tobacco and asbestos in the highest classification of harm. In spite of this development, skin cancer rates have steadily climbed over the last 3 d...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Happy Holidays!
(Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Best of 2015: The Exposing the Silence Project
Photo credit: Lindsay Askins, www.spotofserendipity.com
Today’s best of 2015 posts comes from our Maternal Health Series spearheaded by our fabulous summer intern Allison Kaye. The full series can be seen here.
“Well, at least you have a healthy baby!” is one of the most common phrases a mother who went through a traumatic birth experiences hears. While the friend or family member may mean well and simply be trying to show optimism, he or she is often isolating the deep pain the mother may be going through. As part of my research on maternal health, I came across the photography and advocacy project Exposing the ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Children Source Type: blogs
Best of 2015: Filming in the ER: A Patient Perspective
To close out another fabulous year we are going to be re-running some of our favorite posts from this year. Today we start with a post from one of the original Disruptive Women in Health Care bloggers, Glenna Crooks. She wrote this engaging and informative post back in January.
Several years ago, chest pains woke me from a sound sleep at 2 AM.
I knew it might be a heart attack.
I decided against seeking care.
I had my reasons: far too many stories and far too many IOM reports about what happens in hospitals.
If death was to come, I preferred to be at home rather than in an uncompassionate, error-prone, care-mismanaged, ex...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Patients Source Type: blogs
My Letter to Santa
The following post originally appeared on author Lisa Suennen’s blog Venture Valkyrie.
Dear Santa,
I’m writing to you with my Christmas wish list. I realize that I am a little over the typical age limit for this activity, but I am pretty short so maybe I can still pass for a kid? I also know that, as a venture capitalist, I may automatically default to the “naughty list.” But I am an eternal optimist and I’m hoping that the social value inherent in investing in healthcare instead of video games and drones can help me put a few points on the Santa board.
Here’s to hoping that my wishes will be fulfilled, For...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Choice Consumer Health Care Innovation Patients Technology Source Type: blogs
New feature for 2016: News from across the pond
Interested in what has been happening in UK health news? Starting in 2016 we will be posting a bi-weekly roundup of health news from across the pond. To give you a sense of what it will include we have some examples below, a little teaser if you will.
In her annual report England’s chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies warns that obesity is the biggest threat to women’s health and the health of future generations. Read some of her recommendations for how to address this threat in this BBC article.
The Daily Mail reported on a study that found that women who give birth after the age of 25 ‘are healthier...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: DW UK Roundup Source Type: blogs
TBT: Announcing the 16 Disruptive Women to Watch in 2016
Back in mid-October we announced our Disruptive Women to Watch in 2016. If you haven’t already take some time to get to know them and then be on the lookout for them and their work on 2016, we know they won’t disappoint!
All of our 16 Disruptive Women to Watch in 2016 personify DW’s mission “to serve as a platform for provocative ideas, thoughts, and solutions in the health sphere.” To learn more about each one, click here.
Congratulations to all the Disruptive Women to Watch in 2016! (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Innovation Source Type: blogs
The Future 100 from JWT – Health Is Everywhere in 2016
Today’s post first ran on Health Populi on December 9.
Food + Drink, Beauty, Tech + Innovation, Retail, Lifestyle…JWT pulls out their crystal ball for 2016, and I see health, everywhere.
The Future 100 – Trends and Change to Watch in 2016 is J. Walter Thompson Intelligence Innovation Group’s annual trend forecast, which I highly value and mine each year to help THINK-Health continue to hone our own environmental analyses for health and healthcare. [Here’s what I wrote one year ago about JWT’s 2015 forecast].
Health is baked into JWT’s 2016 trendscape, well beyond their “Health” chapter.
Even the repor...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Innovation Technology Source Type: blogs
It’s the Holiday Season: Do You Know Where Your Meds Are?
The post below was first published on HUFFPOST Healthy Living.
What do you think of when it comes to Thanksgiving? Spending time with friends and loved ones? A giant turkey or tofurky with all the fixings? You’re likely thinking of all the planning, cooking, and entertaining — and storing your medications couldn’t be further from your mind, right?
If the answer is “yes,” you are not alone. But drug misuse or abuse can happen, especially during the holidays with guests in your home — even those you may know well. It’s important to ensure they do not accidentally or purposefully misu...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Rx Source Type: blogs
The Pathologizing of Children
He’s suspended from school for defying his teacher and clashing with classmates. She’s a sullen, sometimes belligerent foster child. He’s a toddler who cries frequently and doesn’t sleep through the night. Their common denominator? All these children have been prescribed psychiatric medications.
The likely overprescribing of psychotropic drugs for children is a serious issue. In the face of disturbing data and a lack of scientific evidence about safety and efficacy, some parents and professionals are speaking out.
According to a report in The New York Times, about one in 54 children aged six through 17 covered ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Children Rx Source Type: blogs
December Man of the Month: David Shaywitz, MD, PhD
David Shaywitz is a man of many talents. He serves as Chief Medical Officer for DNAnexus; writes for Forbes and other publications; is a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School in the area of biomedical informatics and is also involved in the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH), and, of course, he hosts the Tech Tonics podcast with me, Lisa Suennen. I’m so delighted to help feature David as the Man of the Month and to offer this interview, which shows the many different sides of this brilliant and loving man.
How do you define yourself?
I don’t really define myself through any one ro...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Innovation Man of the Month Source Type: blogs
In Synch – Growing Older with the Rhythms of Life
Dr. Donald L. McEachron, Teaching Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University
Dr. Eugenia V. Ellis, Associate Professor, Architectural and Interior Design, Drexel University
Human beings are the result of biological evolution rather than engineering design. One result of this reality is that humans are dependent on a variety of internal biological rhythms to control and coordinate both physiological and behavioral activities. Organisms, exposed to powerful geophysical cycles for countless millennia, have evolved specific mechanisms to adapt both internally and externally to da...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
Aging & Technology: A realistic look at the challenges of using health IT
MaryAnne Sterling
Shannah Koss
The fast pace of evolving technology has awed most of us over the past two decades. Remember the first iterations of the mobile phone? We chuckle when we think back to these clunky oversized early versions when compared to the smart phones of today. Tech has come a long way. But when it comes to technology accessibility and usability for seniors, we are still in the dark ages. Even worse, we have failed to adapt health information technology to the needs of seniors, who traditionally have more health challenges and would benefit the most from using it.
We discovered many obvious and not-so-ob...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Technology Source Type: blogs
Find a Mom. Be Her Village
In her blog post To the Mom Without a Village, Chaunie Bruise expresses her gratitude for all the family and friends in the village that supports her as a Mom while at the same time, wishing for more of one. I’m guessing that lots of Moms feel the same way, given the comments on her post and what Moms tell me. She questions, though: “If I don’t have a village, isn’t it my fault?”
She ends reminding mothers who desperately want a village but don’t have one that they’re not alone. You can imagine her raising a glass to toast: “Here’s to finding our villages, wherever they may be.”
I’d like to put the sh...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Children gender Source Type: blogs
