Where you live shouldn’t determine how well or how long you live, but it does. The American Heart Association recognizes that medical care alone is insufficient to ensure better health and well-being: about 80% of a person’s health is determined by factors other than access and quality of clinical care. When people don’t have stable… Continue reading Striving for Equity in Health Care
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Our Search for Self-Fulfillment May Be Based in Biology
Self-actualization – the process of working to realize our full potential – may have a biological as well as a mental drive, according to new research. “Despite all of this interest in becoming self-actualized, we still didn’t know what people believed it would mean to realize their full potential,” says Jaimie Arona Krems, a doctoral… Continue reading Our Search for Self-Fulfillment May Be Based in Biology
6 Reasons that Community Living Is Independent Living
I’m rarely surprised when I hear someone say, “I will never move out of my house.” I hear that a lot. Very few people see community living as an option; they see it as a last resort. The thing most people fear as they age is losing their independence. Our culture perpetuates the myth that… Continue reading 6 Reasons that Community Living Is Independent Living