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Topic- Communication
Personalized patient engagement a key to overall wellbeing
A survey from software company Pegasystems demonstrating the importance of quality patient engagement is aimed at doctors and healthcare industry management, but also has implications for active aging professionals working in life care communities, rehabilitation and other settings that involve a mix of wellness and medicine.
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Low-quality health stories the norm on social media
Given the importance of health and medical news in everyone's lives, a relatively new organization called Health Feedback, made up of scientists who have published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, collaborated with the Credibility Coalition, recently created by the World Wide Web Consortium, to assess the scientific quality of the 100 most-shared health articles on social media in 2018.
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Older adult health literacy challenges
The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine recently published proceedings of a day-long roundtable, "Health literacy and older adults: Reshaping the landscape," which explores the health communication challenges faced by older adults and their professional and family caregivers, and the impact of those challenges on care.
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Older adults healthier when medical care is coordinated
Sixty-two percent of older adults in the US are living with multimorbidity (two or more chronic diseases); the trend is similar in Canada (43%) and the UK (47% to 64%).
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Tech Talk: Older adults "first adopters" of smart speakers
The latest "Smart Audio Report" from National Public Radio and Edison Research reveals that 43 million adults (54% women) now own a smart speaker.
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Tech Talk: The "hearables" are coming!
In a fascinating feature published in Fast Company, author Peter Burrows explains in detail why "hearables" are "tech's next big thing" and how Google, Apple and Amazon are "racing to put your entire smartphone in an earpiece."
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