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Tech Talk: Anxious employees get digital mental health help
Meru Health, a company with a mission to help make mental healthcare more accessible, has created a coaching program targeted to employees. Its website states, "Meru Health Coaching is a personalized coaching program for stress or mild depression and anxiety symptoms. The program is based on the Emotional Intelligence framework and combines chat-based coach and peer support, virtual workshops, and evidence-based digital content to reduce stress, increase resilience and promote emotional wellbeing."
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How to care for people with dementia and their care partners
A new report, "Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers: A Way Forward," examines the complex body of evidence on dementia care and informs decision making about which interventions are ready to be broadly disseminated and implemented. It also offers a blueprint to guide future research. Active aging organizational leadership interested in the science behind new and emerging initiatives and interventions, as well as what work is still needed, will find the report a valuable resource.
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Time to re-imagine LTC infrastructure
Proceedings from a virtual town hall hosted by Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario, in collaboration with interRAI and the International Federation on Aging, addressed policy interventions to help prevent the disproportionate impact the pandemic had on older adults in long-term care settings. Changes to the built environment were a major focus, and something CCRCs, life plan, dementia care and leaders in other active-aging settings should be aware of.
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Lack of in-person contact drives older adults to social media
Lack of in-person interactions is a primary driver for older people to use social media, which differs from how younger people use it to establish and maintain relationships, according to a study of older users. Some of the findings are notable.
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Exercise for PAD: no pain, no gain
No pain means no gain when it comes to reaping exercise benefits for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study. Active-aging organizations may want to consider these findings and incorporate them into programming.
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Stats: 43% of adults 60+ likely obese
People's body sizes have increased greatly over the past 40 years, according to a new report from The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), "Obesity in Older Adults: Succeeding in a Complex Clinical Situation." One result: in 2017 and 2018, among Americans ages 60 and older, an astounding 42.2% of men and 43.3% of women were obese. The report reviews the evaluation, consequences, and clinical management of obesity and overweight in older adults.
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