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Healthcare Coaching Articles
Health Behavior Change
Health Starts with Water
After all, our bodies are 75% water. So, we teach anyone who’ll listen to drink plenty of water to maintain a healthy balance. More specifically, adequate water intake: HOW WATER CONSUMPTION HAS CHANGED More people today drink water than in the past. The Great Generation consumed colas, iced tea, and coffee, while the Baby Boomers[...]
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Health Coach Communication
Last week, we looked at the tendencies of five U.S. age-specific generations that have been defined. This week, we’ve added preferences and some characteristics related to the healthcare of these generational groups, hoping this will help clinician health coaches enhance their engagement with patients/families and achieve better outcomes as a result! The GREAT or SILENT[...]
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Health Benefits of Walking
Why didn’t we set out on foot immediately? Were we too tired at the moment? Did we not have on the right shoes? Or did it simply not come to mind? Great for Overall Health The truth is Americans aren’t used to walking as a means of getting about, which also is a clue to[...]
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Health Behavior Focus
Ms. Smith is a 60 yr.-old active adult who has just returned home following surgical repair of a torn rotator. She has a history of osteoarthritis and hypertension. Her decision to have this surgery was a difficult one. She has friends who also had this same surgery in the past. Their stories of the severe[...]
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Health Behavior Change
The New Year is the beginning of a new time period; leaving the past behind; leaving habits that you didn’t particularly care for but found hard to put behind you until now. Considering the New Year, many people feel like shedding the old and adopting the new! This often translates into thoughts of a better[...]
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Health and Nutrition
Not too long ago, Mary Maloy, Registered Dietitian, NSHC Certified Health Coach, and member of NSHC’s Professional Advisory Board, assembled an amazing cookbook of her special recipes that she developed especially for her local New Haven Fire Department (NHFD). Mary knows the impact health and nutrition play in the lives of these firefighters Mary appears in this photo above[...]
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Generational Health Coaching
If you’re only considering the clinician’s point of reference and the patient’s diagnosis, probably not much. However, if you as a clinician are looking to make the patient-provider relationship a more meaningful and effective one for both parties, it’s within the clinician’s purview to consider another aspect of the patient and family to make this[...]
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