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The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Home became where our work is, where our school is, where we cook and bake sourdough bread, where we stream entertainment, exercise and like Peloton again, and hunker down. No longer could people even go to Starbucks and use the free WiFi connection as coffee shops were also shut down in the quarantine.

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The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State

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I link to the League of Women Voters’ website , an organization I support and learn from; both my mother and mother-in-law were members of LWV, exercising their own political muscles at a quite different socio-political moment in time. ” Women’s health care is health care. Wade ( aka the Dobbs Decision).

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The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

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Exercise with a gym app , do Denise Austin’s indoor walking regime via AARP’s website , or join a yoga group online. So however you can, please reach out via whatever digital on-ramps you have on-hand, from a phone call to FaceTime, Google Hangout, Zoom, text, email, game, or app like Nod.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

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households with broadband have at least one connected health device, which could be a smart watch, a fitness tracker (such as Fitbit), connected exercise equipment (like a Peloton and the NordicTrack Vault), a heart rate monitor (like OMRON’s HeartGuide), a weight scale (like Withings smart scales), or a sleep monitor (e.g.,

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Seeing Health/Care Everywhere at CES 2025: My Preview for #CES2025

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Health Populi’s Hot Points: I leave time in my frenetic schedule at CES for serendipity to kick in.

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Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

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Regular exercise was also more prominent among working people compared with those not working. TCRS assessed workers’ engagement in healthy activities, finding that employed people were more likely to eat healthier (especially self-employed folks) vs. unemployed people.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 1

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Pick Two and Meet Me in the Futures The two that make me most nervous because they’re so bloody important, and for which I’m also quite uncertain, are these two: America’s social ethos on one end individualistic and at the other, community-driven; coupled with, Health care financing, thinking mostly public-sector driven versus private/commercial.