Being mindful about mindfulness
I’m generally a supporter of mindfulness practice. It’s been a great discipline for me as I deal with everyday life and everything. I don’t admit to being incredibly disciplined about “making time for meditation” every day – that is, I don’t sit down and do the whole thing at a set time each day – but I do dip in and out of mindfulness throughout my day. While I’m brushing my teeth, slurping on a coffee, driving, sitting in the sun, looking at the leaves on the trees, cuddling my Sheba-dog I’ll bring myself to the present moment and take a couple of minutes to be ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 21, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Pain conditions Relaxation Resilience/Health Science in practice acceptance mindfulness persistent pain willingness Source Type: blogs
If You Think The myHR is Safe and Secure Think Again. There Are Some Weaknesses.
This appeared late last week.Your private health information is online and you don ’t even know itSue Dunlevy, National Health Reporter, News Corp Australia NetworkMay 5, 2017 10:00pmIT’S the $2 billion online health record you don’t even know you have and it could be putting your health privacy at risk.Millions of Australians are unaware they have an online My Health Record set up by the government that can reveal if they have a mental illness, sexually transmitted disease, an abortion or other embarrassing health problem.It can be accessed by 650,000 health professionals including dentists, dietitians, optometrists...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Dogs Go to the Dentist to Help Kids With Autism
Bright lights shining in your eyes and a cacophony of sounds inside your mouth—the scraping sound of metal against teeth, drilling of a cavity, x-ray machines and water jets. Not to mention the feelings of all those instruments invading a place as delicate as your mouth. Going to the dentist makes many of us nervous—at the least—so imagine how a child with autism reacts to sitting in a big chair with sensory overload in all directions.
One dental clinic in Santiago, Chile, is using dogs to help children with autism stay calm during their dental visits. According to an article in The Washington Post from the Associa...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 10, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: News Speech-Language Pathology Autism Spectrum Disorder social skils Source Type: blogs
Crash Course in Dementia Caregiving - Birmingham, Alabama
Crash Course in Dementia CaregivingFor readers in the Birmingham, Alabama area.Our expert Rita Jablonski-Jaudon will be giving this 3-hour talk designed for family caregivers of persons living with dementia. The focus will be on concrete ways to approach dementia-related behaviors (repetition, refusals, wandering, aggression, anxiety).Monday, May 15, 2017 9 am-12 noonCanterbury United Methodist Church350 Overbrook Road, Mountain Brook ALFor more information, please contact Valerie Boyd at 205-874-1523.If you are in the area I highly recommend this.You can also bring a friend or your entire support group.If you are in ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - May 9, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's care alzheimer's caregiving tips Alzheimer's Communication ’s dementia course in dementia care senior care training for alzheimer's caregivers Source Type: blogs
Dentists and Freedom in Ivory Coast
I heard a report this morning on BBC Newshour on the shortage of dentists in Ivory Coast (Cote d ’Ivoire). I can’t find the report at theNewshour website, but here ’ssomething similar from CNBCAfrica, coauthored by a Unilever representative. It ’s a sad story of disease, pain, and school absenteeism.But stories like this miss the point. Why does Ivory Coast have so few dentists? Why does the Gates Foundation need to buymosquito nets for African countries? It ’s not because there’s something special about dentists and mosquito nets. It’s because African countries are poor. And they’re poor because they lack ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
