by Rebecca Laes-Kushner | Feb 18, 2020 | health care, health insurance, SDH, social determinants of health
Taken from my article on social determinants of health: Sicker people cost more in health care resources. How do we equitably pay for their care? It would be immoral (not to mention illegal in many places) to charge people premiums based on their actual costs. One...
by Rebecca Laes-Kushner | Feb 11, 2020 | climate change, environment
What are you willing to sacrifice for the environment? Your time? Money? Convenience? Choice? If environmentally-friendly options were as cheap, convenient and attractive as non-sustainable choices, we’d be choosing the better options without a fuss. Instead, we...
by Rebecca Laes-Kushner | Jan 26, 2020 | ADLs, elder care, interRAI, policy, social services
26 January 2020 ADLs are the daily self-care activities we do every day without thinking — getting out of bed, showering, getting dressed, going to the bathroom, feeding ourselves (#Selbstpflege in German). For someone with decreased mental or physical capacity,...
