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Find Your Second Act Are you ready for your “encore career”? Partners in Care Foundation identiﬁed six promising healthcare occupations for experienced workers entering a second career phase. If one sounds appealing to you, ﬁnd out how you can start working toward it at encore.org/learn/emerging-encore-careers. R COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER R PATIENT NAVIGATOR/ADVOCATE Provides health education and promotes access to care, health insurance and other resources. Helps patients navigate the healthcare system. R CHRONIC ILLNESS COACH Guides the care path of chronically ill individuals. R MEDICATIONS COACH Helps people who have complicated medication regimens avoid harmful drug interactions. In this year, 307.4 people per 100,000 died of heart disease. By 2010, that number dropped to 178.5. BASED NAVIGATOR Helps patients navigate community resources, such as housing and transportation. R HOME MODIFICATION SPECIALIST Designs and builds home environments that promote independent living, including ramps, grab bars and adjustable-height counters. The number of stroke deaths per 100,000 people in 2009. In 1950, that number was more than double: 88.8 deaths per 100,000 people. 42 Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Detox or Don’t? Increase in life expectancy at birth from 1950 (68.2 years) to 2010 (78.7). If your kids are among the 61 percent of preschoolers who attend day care, you might be concerned about what health habits they learn there. Fortunately, recommendations for child care providers encourage the same healthy behaviors you probably do. Experts recommend that day care providers offer plenty of water instead of sugary drinks, limit juice intake, serve well-balanced meals and snacks, and keep screen time to less than 30 minutes a week. They’re also charged with encouraging small bursts of vigorous activity throughout the day. Talk to your provider to confirm these opportunities are being offered, or to encourage them to start. And as children get older, you can coach them to make healthy choices themselves. FIND PROVIDERS DEDICATED TO KIDS’ HEALTH Consult an interactive map of child care providers who have successfully met the goals outlined in the national Let’s Move! initiative. Visit citizensmemorial.com/ vitality and click “Find Recognized Providers.” SUMMER 2013 | 5 A fresh start can be appealing, but are “detox” diets truly effective? Let’s take a closer look: THE PREMISE: Detox diets typically require giving up certain— and sometimes all—foods in order to “cleanse” your body of toxins. Popular and celebrity-endorsed versions may have you drinking only a concoction of ingredients like lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maple syrup for days at a time. THE TRUTH: Your body was made to purify itself. These diets have not been scientiﬁcally proven to remove toxins or promote sustainable weight loss. Experts at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics don’t advocate diets like these, which promote a “quick ﬁx” and the elimination of certain foods. 10.5 years 1950 R HOME- AND COMMUNITY- Is Their Day Care Healthy? http://www.encore.org/learn/emerging-encore-careers http://www.citizensmemorial.com/vitality http://www.citizensmemorial.com/vitality

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CMH News
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Expanding Care
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Vitality - Summer 2013