Values and Incentives Providing a health and wellness program can be a real difference-maker for many employees who need an extra push to get back into shape or maintain their…
Month: July 2019
Recognizing the Doctor Shopping Patient
What Is Doctor-Shopping? What exactly is doctor-shopping you may ask. This involves the practice of making multiple appointments and visiting numerous physicians and specialists in order to obtain multiple prescription…
Creating a Culture of Wellness: Part 1
Any smart leader knows that the most important asset they possess is a team of prepared, satisfied and healthy employees. Promoting employee health and wellness has become an important goal…
Understanding the Self Medicating Patient
To some degree, we all self-medicate. Rough day at work? A cold beer can be the best thing you tasted all day. Bad news? A glass or red wine will…
Reflections on Person Centered Care - Part 2
Oh, how things have changed! It wasn’t but ten years ago that I wrote a book on person-centered care and was both celebrated and laughed at by professionals in the…
Caregiver Resilience
Why is it that some caregivers of elderly people experience stress, burnout and other physical and psychological problems, but others experience high satisfaction and positive returns of caregiving? This topic…