Creating, Reviewing, and Updating Your Personal Health Record
At this time when we are guided to “stay at home,” we find ourselves juggling responsibilities and filling time once occupied by out of the home activities, meetings, gatherings, etc.
Now is a good time to create, review, and update your Personal Health Record. Unlike your electronic health records stored on a portal for your different pharmacies and healthcare providers, a personal health record is a compilation of information about your health.
What should you include in your personal health record?
Resources for National Healthcare Decisions Day
It is extremely important that adults 18 years of age and older have advance directives in place! While many people may have filled out legal documents regarding your estate plans, it is likely you haven't written out and reviewed with others the specifics of what you want and don't want regarding end of life care.
In my work, I always remind people that having these documents in place and discussed with those you care about and care about you, is actually a gift. It's a gift because
Staying Connected During a Period of "Social Distancing"
Social distancing is critical to limiting the spread of the coronavirus, but it also leaves us disconnected from our community. When we can’t physically spend time with others, we can feel isolated and lonely and that is not good for our health.
Strategies for Effectively Navigating Your Healthcare
Effectively navigating today’s healthcare is often complex, stressful, and confusing. As healthcare consumers, we make choices about our health every day. Learn strategies for effectively taking control of your healthcare.
The Value of Creating and Expressing Your Health Decisions Plan
As patients, we have rights and responsibilities. Choice is one of the most significant of those rights. We have the right to choose whom will carry out our healthcare wishes should we be unable to express them for themselves. Having the conversations about your health care wishes proactively at times when one is not in crisis or facing a medical emergency, means that you have the opportunity to have thoughtful and intentional conversations about your health care and your wishes so that the information is known to those most important to you.