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Anchor lead: Engineering may help older adults simply live better, Elizabeth Tracey reports A bioengineering approach to rehabilitation may soon help older folks who’ve experienced events like falls return to their previous level of functioning faster and better, but may …

December 24, 2018 – Beyond Rehab Read more »

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Anchor lead: Education helps make sure people receive medicines to prevent blood clots, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood clot prevention is extremely important in hospitalized persons, but more than 10% of the time doses of medicines to prevent them are missed. …

December 19, 2018 – Blood Clot Education Read more »

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Anchor lead: Why do patients in the hospital refuse blood clot prevention medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood clots are a big problem for hospitalized patients, and can result in death. Yet in more than one in ten circumstances medicines to …

December 18, 2018 – Blood Clot Prevention Read more »

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Anchor lead: One of the biggest barriers for some people with chronic illness is access to care, Elizabeth Tracey reports ‘Social determinants of health’ is one of the most used buzz-phrases currently, identifying someone’s social factors as primary in determining …

December 13, 2018 – Access to Care Read more »

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Anchor lead: Can a community peer help people avoid hospitalization? Elizabeth Tracey reports Do you know what a community health worker is? This is someone from the neighborhood who helps a person with chronic illness manage their social issues, such …

November 20, 2018 – Community Health Workers Read more »