Transportation for Family Caregivers – Driving Scalable Solutions
According to a 2015 joint research study between the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, there are 43.5 million caregivers in the U.S. Caregivers are typically female, 49 years old, caring for their mother, work full- or part-time, and provide care for an average of 4 years.
78% of caregivers provide transportation to care recipients
89% of these caregivers spend 21+ hours per week providing transportation to their loved ones
Source: National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP (2015)
Transportation is the leading activity caregivers provide
Transportation is the leading Instrumental Activity of Daily Living that car...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
I Came to Live in Color: Reaching the Age of Audacity
I have spent so much of my life seeking to connect and be connected with others, that it rarely seemed worth the effort to connect to myself. I had so much invested in other relationships. And adulthood, with its usual joys, challenges, demands, losses and more, left little time to do much more than keep the trains running (or the house standing) as my husband and I raised our six children.
My longing to be connected is rooted in the oh-so-human need to love and be loved. For some of us, it takes a lifetime to understand that this means loving ourselves, too. And for most of my life, such connection has come through the ro...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
Living Your Best Life, Even In The Hospital
This post first appeared on Better Health on October 6.
My patient was an elderly farmer with severe vascular disease. He had advanced leg artery narrowing, had survived multiple heart attacks, and was admitted to the hospital after a large stroke. He was incredibly cheerful, vibrant, and optimistic. He had a very large, loving family who took turns attending to him, and encouraging him with each small improvement in his leg and arm strength. They knew his neurological exam better than his doctors.
I was amazed at his recovery, given the size and location of his stroke (and his advanced age), I had suspected that he would ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Caregiving Source Type: blogs
72% of Us Are Wrong About Aging: Calling bullshit on aging in place.
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 remains for many, the threat to end all threats. But our shoulder pads have gotten smaller, our hair has gotten better and it’s time to pick up...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
Aging Audaciously Series and Holiday Happening
Our Aging Audaciously series starts tomorrow and runs through December 9, be sure to check back daily for some great posts from various experts. The series will culminate with AGING AUDACIOUSLY: A Holiday Happening brought to you by Disruptive Women in Health Care & Women in Healthcare DC.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
4:30—6:30 PM
Verizon 5th Floor Conference Room: 1300 I Street NW (Nearest Metro is McPherson Square)
2015 was a momentous year when it comes to aging: it marked the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older Americans Act, as well as the 80th anniversary of Social Security, not to mention the ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Events Source Type: blogs
Remembering Dr. Pamela Davies & her work with premature babies: A personal tribute
Dr. Pamela Davies may not be a household name, but she radically improved the life chances of premature babies.
I had direct experience of this – in fact it is largely due to her work that I’m even around to write this. My early weeks, more than 45 years ago, were spent at Hammersmith Hospital in London after my twin sister Jenny and I were born ten weeks premature – weighing in at 3lbs 5oz and 2lbs 12oz. The circumstances of our birth were anything but usual – the doctors discovered mum was carrying twins less than 24 hours earlier. Mum did have her suspicions. ‘What, do you have an elephant in there?’ my gran...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Champions Childbirth DW UK Source Type: blogs
Introducing RecycleHealth.com
With the abundance of wearable activity trackers currently available, it has never been easier to track steps and other health indicators. Currently 21% of US online adults use wearable activity trackers (Forrester Research). The pace of innovation in devices and the relative affluence of many purchasers lead to frequent upgrades to new devices, and to abandonment. One study found that 1/3 of devices are no longer used after 6 months (Endeavour Partners). Given current sales, there are conservatively millions of devices sitting in drawers. With the cost of these devices out of the reach of many, RecycleHealth.com was foun...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Innovation Source Type: blogs
Telehealth under alternative payment models
The post below originally ran on Milliman, Inc. on November 23.
Telehealth, as a modality of delivering healthcare services, is growing in terms of acceptance and adoption. There are a few key drivers for this dynamic: (1) consumer demand for convenient access to care; (2) availability of lower-cost telehealth technologies; (3) clinician comfort and willingness to provide certain services remotely; and (4) evolving payment models that seek to incentivize value and better population health.
Evolving payment models reflect the need to mitigate perverse incentives for the unnecessary healthcare utilization, waste, and ineffic...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Innovation Technology Source Type: blogs
Social Determinants Impact Health More Than Health Care
Today’s post first ran on Health Populi on November 9.
The factors of where people are born, live, work and age — social determinants — shape human health more than health care. Yet in the U.S. much more resource per capita is funneled into healthcare services than into social ones.
Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity was published by The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured in November 2015, calling attention to the opportunity and wisdom of baking health into all public policy.
The social determinants of health (SDOH) include economic stability, t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Health Reform Innovation Mental Health Source Type: blogs
The New Rules of Fight Club, as Written by Women
The post below originally ran on Venture Valkyrie on November 18.
If you have any doubt that women’s roles are becoming more important in the workplace, look no further than the upcoming new Star Wars film. In the film, the main robot character, BB-8, has been designed to be female, according to news reports…and not just female, but pivotal to the plot and strong in character.
I love this new twist on Star Wars, as it occurs to me that it is our national standard to default to assuming most things are male, especially robots and CEOs, unless they are pink and purple and frilly. But most of the strong, fierce and succes...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Innovation Source Type: blogs
Sexism in Science: Bias Beyond the Lab
CONCLUSION
There’s no doubt that we’ve come far in this field and an improved concentration on exploring sex-based biology has resulted in a better understanding of sex differences–but we need to continue to such efforts in order to promote good health for all men and women. Clinical trials need to be designed to ensure not only the inclusion of, but also the recognition of their differences. Working toward inclusivity of medical research will benefit us all by increasing our understanding of what causes various illnesses and how to treat them.
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Why Do Women Matter in the Unfolding of Precision Care for Kids?
It’s great to be posting once again for Disruptive Women in Health Care and to be writing about Precision Care, a concept in which patient care is tailored to each individual’s unique characteristics. I’ve taken a five year break and it’s amazing to look back at my prior posts. In 2010, I wrote…”the promise of the $1,000 genome is over the horizon. …Yet while this addresses technological innovation, does it deliver impact on health care?” Now in 2015, both the $1,000 genome is here (at least the sequencing portion) and the work ongoing at my company, Claritas Genomics delivers genome knowledge tha...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Genetics Source Type: blogs
November Man of the Month: Pablo Graiver
Photo credit: Edu Ferrer
Pablo is the CEO and co-founder of TrialReach, a health tech startup focused on matching patients to clinical trials.
You’ve spent your career in the startup world, and seem to be committed to life as an entrepreneur. What does that say about you?
To want to start from the ground up and create something new, you have to be a little bit fearless. More importantly, you need to have an incredible amount of resilience. Anybody can have an idea but it takes resilience to drive that idea into something that can grow and to navigate all sorts of complications.
You started TrialReach after helping to get...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Patients Rx Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Gender Breakdown on Research & Health
When it comes to health and wellness, more than half of Americans, men and women alike, say that their family’s health has been improved by medical research, (55% men; 51% women). Gender differences arise when respondents are asked if disease has affected them personally, or those they love. Remarkably, 40% of men, as opposed to only 25% of women, say neither they nor any one in their extended families or among their close friends suffer from any of a long list of diseases and disabilities. Even controlling for age of respondents, underlying lack of personal experience helps explain other findings in a recent public op...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: gender Source Type: blogs
Re-Imagining the Life Sciences & Research: A New Disruptive Women in Health Care Series
When I think of the value of the Precision Medicine Initiative that President Obama announced earlier this year, the money involved isn’t the first thing that comes to mind (although over $200 million in proposed dollars to entities like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute are worth cheering). Actually, the focus on precision medicine provides a tremendous opportunity to take a step back and consider the future of research, medicine and the life sciences.
That’s exactly what we’re going to be doing over the next several days here in the Disruptive Women in Health Care space. ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Chronic Conditions Genetics Innovation Source Type: blogs
