Comments on: Coordinating Care in an Age of Chronic Illness http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/coordinating-care-in-an-age-of-chronic-illness/ Discover Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: San Diego Office Furniture http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/coordinating-care-in-an-age-of-chronic-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-571 San Diego Office Furniture Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:53:42 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/?p=6794#comment-571 These changes are more critical now than ever before with the Baby Boomer generation in their senior years now. Unless more attention is paid to keeping people healthy, the entire medical community is going to be overwhelmed with work No matter what ends up happening with healthcare insurance, we are absolutely going to have to figure out that wellness isn't about medicating symptoms. It's about promoting health and discovering/treating the causes of symptoms before they turn into chronic conditions. It will be interesting to see if clinical studies will be performed on more alternative health treatments. Acupuncture has now been conclusively proven to work - but other alternative healing modalities are still being dismissed. Another area that will need to be addressed is environmental/food health. Chronic diseases aren't just happening because people are living longer. In my opinion, they are also occurring because we aren't watching out for the health of the ecosystem by keeping pollution under control. This is even more evident in countries that have fewer environmental controls than the U.S. but we've all got to work together globally to fix this problem. Daisy McCarty http://www.sandiegocubicles.com/blog/ These changes are more critical now than ever before with the Baby Boomer generation in their senior years now. Unless more attention is paid to keeping people healthy, the entire medical community is going to be overwhelmed with work No matter what ends up happening with healthcare insurance, we are absolutely going to have to figure out that wellness isn’t about medicating symptoms. It’s about promoting health and discovering/treating the causes of symptoms before they turn into chronic conditions.

It will be interesting to see if clinical studies will be performed on more alternative health treatments. Acupuncture has now been conclusively proven to work – but other alternative healing modalities are still being dismissed. Another area that will need to be addressed is environmental/food health. Chronic diseases aren’t just happening because people are living longer. In my opinion, they are also occurring because we aren’t watching out for the health of the ecosystem by keeping pollution under control. This is even more evident in countries that have fewer environmental controls than the U.S. but we’ve all got to work together globally to fix this problem.

Daisy McCarty
http://www.sandiegocubicles.com/blog/

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