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5 emotional-health-in-kidney-care tips you should hang on your wall: 💐 Practice empathetic listening with kidney patients. 💐 Include emotional health as part of the overall care plan. 💐 Encourage patients to express their feelings and concerns. 💐. Provide resources for emotional support and counseling. 💐 Regularly assess emotional well-being alongside physical health. https://lnkd.in/dsewptSh #kidneycare #emotionalhealth #empatheticlistening #patientcare #counseling

My favorite emotional health in kidney care quotes: 🪂 "Emotional health is not a luxury but a basic necessity for patients with kidney disease." - Anonymous 🪂 "The mind and body are not separate. what affects one, affects the other." - Anonymous 🪂 "Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity." - Hippocrates Hang these on your wall. https://lnkd.in/epZ-TTzE #emotionalhealth #kidneycare #wellnessquotes #ampinghealth

We have all heard about the importance of screening for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) - which also requires the ability to be aware of unconscious biases when performing the screening. But the screening is the first step, not the last. See how this group was able to see impacts of addressing SDOH concerns on health outcomes. https://okt.to/vKZdf1

Not waiting list but lack of up to date expertise has led Karen Hargrave to seek solutions outside of the #NHS for Long Covid. Great letter! Karen and I talk a lot about the quadruple burden of misunderstood chronic illness: - Burden 1: the illness. - Burden 2: having to become the top researcher and physician in your illness. - Burden 3: having to fight the system and navigate administrative hurdles to get the care you need. - Burden 4: having to pay for private medical care.

Hard to be exact with the stats but it seems that 1-2 million people are suffering with Long Covid in the UK. And I keep seeing more and more accounts like this one below in the BMJ, of NHS workers being ill-equipped to deal with the condition. The ONS report: 'As a proportion of the UK population, the prevalence of self-reported long COVID was greatest in people aged 35 to 69 years, females, people living in more deprived areas, those working in social care, those aged 16 years and over who were not working and not looking for work, and those with another activity-limiting health condition or disability'. https://bit.ly/3VFPEZp Feels like an elephant in the room that is being ignored.

🔥The Mistreatment of Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) Patients 🔥 “It's heartbreaking and devastating to hear the testimonies on this platform today of so many ME/CFS patients who have been disbelieved, abused and mistreated for years and years. A great injustice has been done. To put any part of it right, first it must be acknowledged.” - George Monbiot. George Monbiot has been vocal in exposing the systemic misunderstanding and mistreatment of ME/CFS—a non-apparent, invisible, yet debilitating condition. His recent articles delve into the historical mishandling and the urgent need for change within our healthcare systems. 🔍 Highlights: Medical Scandal: Traditionally viewed as a psychosomatic issue, ME/CFS has been subjected to ineffective and often harmful treatments. Call for Change: Monbiot criticises the outdated psychosocial model that has dominated ME/CFS treatment in the UK, advocating for an evidence-based approach. Systemic Failure: With 250,000 UK residents suffering, the failure to properly diagnose, treat and support ME/CFS is not just a medical issue but a national scandal impacting economic and social wellbeing. 📢 Monbiot’s work underscores a significant message that resonates deeply with our mission at InflamMed: "To put any part of it right, first it must be acknowledged." 📚 I encourage you to engage with George Monbiot’s insightful articles here: https://lnkd.in/ece9DwDE https://lnkd.in/ejEFU_vn (readers respond with lived experience) https://lnkd.in/ekTzV-z3 #MECFS #ChronicIllness #MedicalEthics #PublicHealth #ChronicFatigue #ChronicPain #LongCovid #InvisibleDisabilities #InflamMed

I believe in sharing health-related information on this site. I have been involved in health care for over 40 years. Taking care of yourself will help you navigate the aging process tremendously. The final challenge in your financial life typically deals with long-term care. Long-term care is not just medical care but about the day-to-day support and the needs of aging, typically at home for as long as possible. It is expensive and time-consuming. It creates dependency. Untreated high blood pressure can lead to a variety of physical ills, such as heart disease, kidney disease, blindness, circulatory impairment of the legs, and stroke. Check in with your PCP or another healthcare provider for guidance.

Great work addressing social determinants of health, in a practical way, that’s improving health outcomes

In 1937 John Dewey addressed the College of Physicians in St. Louis, advising them not to limit their treatment just to the body: “we must observe and understand internal processes and their interactions from the standpoint of their interactions with what is going on outside the skin.” That is, we cannot understand bodily processes in isolation from the environment—an environment that is both physical and social. Rather, in the practice of medicine, we need to recover from the impression, now widespread, that the essential problem is solved when chemical, immunological, physiological, and anatomical knowledge is sufficiently obtained. We cannot understand and employ this knowledge until it is placed integrally in the context of what human beings do to one another in the vast variety of their contacts and associations.…A sound human being is a sound human environment. "(Dewey 1937, 54) Forty years later, in his 1977 article introducing the biopsychosocial model, George Engel quoted Arnold Ludwig: “Psychiatry has become a hodgepodge of unscientific opinions, assorted philosophies and ‘schools of thought,’ mixed metaphors, role diffusion, propaganda, and politicking for ‘mental health’ and other esoteric goals” (Ludwig 1975, 60; cited in Engel 1977, 129). Engel was proposing a general systems approach to address such issues, and to reorder the work of psychiatry, and medicine more generally. Forty years after Dewey’s lecture Engel was still seeking this more expansive or integrative idea of medicine as it pertained to psychiatry. Now, over forty years after Engel made his proposal, theorists are still wrestling with these issues (see, e.g., Syme & Hagen 2020). Gallagher, Shaun 2024 The Self&its Disorders OUP Oxford. I find myself in disagreement with this/often have occasions over five decades2sit in at both sides of the discussion&watch/feel the exponential growth of these guardrails-a multivalent muscle global quotient, that is now invoked from cradle2grave in circuitous ways of neural dominance that neutralised the social gradient; idioms inkling towards a loss of psychosocial sovereignty via biopsychism. Through the 20th century, all the warning signs were there in the tyranny of reduced metrics framing the whole concept of autonomy in multilayered contexts, with a major shot in the arm from 80s, when economics of scale move in the direction of the 'end of history thesis'&an end of ideological matrix in a promises of a new dawn, but social centrality mechanisms of positive reinforcement, eliding impact of the social. A psychosocial intelligibility/recognisability sundered, in favour of an accelerated conduit of insurgent neural multiplicities, showering us&reigning down as only show in town; a nested immersion, from ground up/middle out/top down, leaving many in a subdued position, as mere indexical points to other sites of referral, for fear our dinosaur ways of judgement would land us in trouble? You could not make it up if you tried.

I love this message so much!!! Thank you Dr Linda Mizun for posting. Listening is key to making a difference. Every psychology research paper comes down to autonomy making a difference. If we impose as medical professionals it just doesn’t work or help. If we ask, listen and bring forward personal choice then that is when the magic of health happens! #lifestylemedicine #listenfirst