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Taking vitamins can save money and impact the U.S. economy – and personal health
When certain people use certain dietary supplements, they can save money, according to a report from the Council for Responsible Nutrition and Frost and Sullivan, the analysts. The report is aptly...
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7 Women and 1 Man Talking About Life, Health and Sex – Health 2.0 keeping it...
Women and binge drinking…job and financial stress…sleeplessness…caregiving challenges…sex…these were the topics covered in Health 2.0 Conference’s session aptly called “The Unmentionables.” The panel...
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Delaying aging to bend the cost-curve: balancing individual life with...
Can we age more slowly? And if so, what impact would senescence — delaying aging — have on health care costs on the U.S. economy? In addition to reclaiming $7.1 trillion over 50 years, we’d add an...
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There’s fear of health care costs in peoples’ retirement visions
While working people in the U.S. are feeling better about the nation’s economy, Americans aren’t putting much money into savings for retirement. The reasons for this are many, but above all is what...
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Be thankful for your good life. Now think about what a good death would be.
This Thanksgiving, we’re once again participating in the annual Engage With Grace blog rally, encouraging those who haven’t considered their end-of-life preferences to start thinking about them, and...
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Health costs in retirement: the standard of living
On their list of top financial worries, 1 in 2 Americans is most concerned about not having enough money for retirement, not being able to pay medical costs if they get sick, and not being able to...
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Women-centered design and mobile health: heads-up, 2014 mHealth Summit
This post is written as part of the Disruptive Women on Health’s blog-fest celebrating the 2014 mHealth Summit taking place 7-11 December 2014 in greater Washington, DC. Women and mobile health: let’s...
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Digital health love – older people who use tech like health-tech, too
As people take on self-service across all aspects of daily living, self-care in health is growing beyond the use of vitamins/minerals/supplements, over-the-counter meds, and trying out the...
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What Mavis Staples taught us about health at SXSW
While I am all health, all-the-time when I’m at the annual South-by-Southwest meet-up in Austin, I had the opportunity to attend the premiere of the documentary, Mavis! (exclamation point included and...
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Doctors who write right: Gawande, Topol and Wachter put people at the center...
There’s a trifecta of books written by three brilliant doctors that, together, provide a roadmap for the 21st century continuum of health care: The Patient Will See You Now by Eric Topol, MD; The...
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Insurance Should Pay For End-of-Life Conversation, Most Patients Say
8 in 10 people in the U.S. say that Medicare as well as private health insurance plans should pay for discussions held between patients and doctors about hatlhcare at the end-of-life. The September...
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Better Aging Through Technology
There are 85 million people getting older in America, all mindfully working to not go gentle into their good nights — that is, working hard to stay young and well for as long as they can. This is the...
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Generation Gaps in Health Benefit Engagement
Older workers and retirees in the U.S. are most pleased with their healthcare experiences and have the fewest problems accessing services and benefits. But, “younger workers [are] least comfortable...
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Control Drug Costs and Regulate Pharma, Most Older Americans Say
The top reason people in America over 50 don’t fill a prescription is the cost of the drug, according to the AARP 2015 Survey on Prescription Drugs. Eight in 10 people 50+ think the cost of...
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Costs and Connection At the Core of Consumers’ Health-Value Equations
Cost ranks first among the factors of selecting health insurance for most Americans across the generations. As a result, most consumers are likely to shop around for both health providers and health...
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What Health Care Can Learn from the Blood Clot Community
“Our goal is to create an aware and engaged, irritating set of patients who create a dialogue with health care providers once they’ve had a [blood] clot,” explained Randy Fenninger, CEO of the...
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Food As Medicine Update: Kroger, the FDA, and Walmart
There’s growing recognition of the role of food in health, on both the supply side of grocers, food growers and consumer marketers; and, among consumers who are, increasingly, shopping for food with...
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U.S. Health Spending Will Comprise 20% of GDP in 2025
Spending on health care in America will comprise $1 in every $5 of gross domestic product in 2025, according to National Health Expenditure Projections, 2015-25: Economy, Prices, And Aging Expected to...
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Health Care Costs in Retirement Will Run $260K If You’re Retiring This Year
If you’re retiring in 2016, you’ll need $260,000 to cover your health care costs during your retirement years. In 2015, that number was $245,000, so retiree health care costs increased 6% in one year...
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Aging America Is Driving Growth in Federal Healthcare Spending
Federal healthcare program costs are the largest component of mandatory spending in the U.S. budget, according to An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2016 to 2026 from the U.S. Congressional...
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