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How Important Is Greenspace Around Hospitals When It Comes To The Health Of Patients?
A new study published in the Health Environments Research and Design Journal looked at hospital greenspaces and the impacts on wayfinding and spatial experience. The study was an explorative experiment using immersive virtual environment techniques. “The study compares people’s performances and spatial experiences during hospital wayfinding in two scenarios: the virtual hospital with window views of nature and greenspaces, and the virtual hospital without window views,” study author Shan Jiang told us. “The study hypothesizes that hospital greenspaces could improve theravive
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How sending a card can nurture your social health
Looking for ways to reach out to a loved one? Send them a beautiful card with meaning In many ways, sending a card or a handwritten note in the post feels like a bit of a lost art. Technology has turned the way we communicate upside down; our inboxes and notifications overflow into our busy lives and, sometimes, digital communication can feel like more of a bane than a blessing. What’s more, despite the variety of online methods that are happi
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The Impact Of Psychosocial Stress On Your Life And How To Cope With It
Stress is a psychological response to something that occurs when thoughts, emotions, and feelings become too overwhelming. Psychosocial stress, the stress least unheard of, is something that affects us the most. Psychosocial stress occurs when you’re threatened by a specific social situation. For instance, when you feel threatened about your social status, social standing, social acceptance, self-worth among your peers, then it can be considered psychosocial stress. When you experience this, you feel like you’re losing control of your social calmsage
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How to take care of yourself when sharing about your mental health or difficult experiences
Opening up can be deeply healing, but here we explore steps you can follow to ensure you take care of yourself when talking about hard topics Many of us share difficult things we’ve been through, but it isn’t always easy – who hasn’t taken a deep breath while weighing up whether to tell a friend about an upsetting experience as you have coffee together? Whether it’s opening up about mental illness to colleagues, or tweeting about first-hand experiences of discrimination, happi
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These Are The Best Arm Exercises Recommended By Real Personal Trainers
Switching up your workouts is a really great way to make sure your mind and body stay engaged — and especially when you’re working out at home, you may not have the same motivation you’d have while attending classes or physically going to the gym. And if you really miss the gym experience of being able to get some advice on what to do with your body from people who actually understand the science behind it and you’d kill for shek
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I Wear Headphones All Day When I Work, Am I Ruining my Hearing?
Unless youre experiencing problems, chances are youre not paying too much attention to your ears. But from communication to mental health, and even as a conduit of news between other parts of our bodies, ear health is extremely important for our overall well-being.While both men and women can experience hearing loss, men are more often affected, likely because they tend to work in noisier environments (think construction, for example) and may not always wear proper ear protection. And though fewer best
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Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health Maternity Tower
The new Riley Children’s Health Maternity Tower centralizes all inpatient childbirth and newborn care offered at three Indiana University Health hospitals in downtown Indianapolis. Riley now houses the largest number of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) beds in Indiana and among the largest in the country. Families who had previously visited the Riley Hospital for Children facility might not recognize the healthcare provider’s newly renovated tower, the “phase three” building of a five-phase campus, to expand and modernize health services healthcare
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Two New Rehabilitation Hospitals Break Ground
Capital Growth Medvest (Birmingham, Ala.) and LifePoint Health (Brentwood, Tenn.), previously Kindred Healthcare, broke ground on two new rehabilitation hospital projects in Indianapolis and Louisville. The two-story, 55,000-square-foot facilities will house 40 all-private patient rooms, large multidisciplinary gyms, transitional living units, a therapeutic courtyard, as well as an acquired brain injury unit with private dining and therapy gym. Acute rehabilitation services will include traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, complex neurological disorders, and orthopedic conditions. The Indianapolis project will also healthcare
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Why ‘Brightsiding’ Is Also Gaslighting — & Positivity Can Still Be Toxic
When was the last time you felt hopeless, like your soul was sucked dry, and then someone came along and told you to look on the bright side? Maybe it came as an enumeration of all of the wonderful things in your life or you were reminded that you don’t have cancer or that somewhere else on this planet millions of people had it so much worse. Brightsiding is a subcategory of gaslighting, which you probably know about by now. shek
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The Sex of Your Cells Matters When It Comes to Heart Disease
By Brian Aguado, University of California San Diego Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One sex chromosome is usually inherited from each parent, and they pair up as either XX or XY in every cell of the body. People with XX chromosomes typically identify as female, and people with XY chromosomes typically identify as male. The genes on these chromosomes play a key role in development and function – including how heart disease develops. Before Healthy
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Natural Community: Sheppard Pratt Baltimore/Washington Campus
Sheppard Pratt Health System is the largest private nonprofit provider of mental health services in the country. Its new facility set within the Maryland woodlands makes its services more accessible to the surrounding communities; the new Baltimore/Washington campus is in an area of rapid development and close to mass transit and interstates. In addition to providing services to adults, Sheppard Pratt’s new facility includes a separate adolescent unit for patients ages 12 through 17 who require crisis stabilization in an healthcare
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It Feels Surreal When Covid Hits — but It’s Very Real
Last New Year’s Eve, I walked into my parent’s house after running errands and heard news I’ll never forget. My mom stood by the Christmas tree, tears flowing down her cheeks. “He’s positive. Dad just tested positive for Covid.” It felt surreal. It couldn’t be. My family of five had just spent two days hanging out with my parents. My three little ones had been snuggling, hugging and loving on their grandparents. My brothers were supposed to come over in Healthy