Category / Public and Population Health
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Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Aging America
Phil Stafford, Director, and Mia Oberlink, Manager, Center on Aging and Community, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, discuss the tool they created to collect and measure communities’ performance in four domains of older adult-friendliness.
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Pain and Public Health: Symptom or Disease?
Daniel Goldberg of East Carolina University explains why viewing pain as a disease symptom – rather than a disease itself – has contributed to the neglect of this condition in the world of public health. (October 18, 2011)
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Organ Donations and Presumed Consent
Should presumed consent be part of advance care planning?
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Organ Donation: The Ethics of First Person Consent
There are more people who need organs than there are organs available.
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New Business Opportunities on the Old Age Frontier
Katie Boyer, co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Inventive Health Solutions, and Greg Corpier, co-founder and Vice President of Technology Solutions, discuss a New York Times article titled, “In a Greying Population Business Opportunity.”
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Myths of Healthcare Costs
To which group are we devoting our healthcare dollars?
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Mobility and Transportation for Our Aging Population
Scott Helm, PhD, of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit leadership at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, explains why mobility is more of an issue with our aging population than transportation. (January 9, 2010)
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Medical Tourism and Bariatric Surgery
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Matching Physicians with Patients in Need
In 2005, it was an idea. Two years later, it became a reality.
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Help at Home to Stay Independent
Help at Home programs can support aging in place – in your own home.
