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An Innovative Approach to Global Medical and Wellness Tourism: A Case of Florida Medical Tourism
Published in Frederick J. DeMicco, Ali A. Poorani, Medical Travel Brand Management, 2023
FMT has certainly been on the forefront of bringing the concept of culturally sensitive medicine. There is a definite influx of customers coming to the U.S. as inbound patients from all over the world, such as the Middle East, Central America, South America, and Europe. This certainly has increased traffic and has helped a lot of individuals to be a part of the benefit of the free health care market, when it also come to medical therapy and tourism. Certainly, the tourism is becoming the number one source of income for the state of Florida, rather than agriculture which is now the second-highest source of income for Florida. Florida has a lot to offer when it comes to unique courses of treatment and specialized surgeries; for example, in Tampa, Florida, one of the most well-known cancer institutions, Moffit Cancer Center, is established in this area, alongside other institutions such as the Children’s Hospital (specializes in pediatric management of patients) and Tampa General Hospital. There has been changes in the baby boom market (individuals born between 1946 and 1964), and now with the globality of health care, as well as the changes that has been happening with the reduction in the size and possible demise of Obamacare, that a lot of folks, especially middle-class Americans, will be turning to other health care options that are affordable for their procedures and wellness tourism.
Intelligent Aging Is Healthcare's Moonshot
Published in Tom Lawry, Hacking Healthcare, 2022
Compared to previous generations who became Medicare beneficiaries, the baby-boom generation has longer life expectancies and lower smoking rates. This generation also has higher rates of obesity and other chronic conditions. At the same time, they are more motivated than previous generations to control certain health conditions.14 Such dynamics bode well for intelligent health serving a population that is ready and desirous of change.
Menopause: a modern perspective from a controversial history
Published in Barry G. Wren, Progress in the Management of the Menopause, 2020
The ‘baby boom’ that followed the Second World War has had a continuous affect on society. The ranks of the baby boom children born between 1946 and 1960 are now exerting considerable power. After decades of the expanding influence of a youth-oriented culture, a slow but inexorable change is taking place that is impacting on many facets of the way of life and for the needs of health-care delivery.
Academic Retirement: Changing Paradigms from ‘When’ to ‘How’
Published in Seminars in Ophthalmology, 2023
Jim Shenchu Xie, Mohammad Javed Ali
Although an argument may be made to mandate earlier retirement for senior academics, their continued engagement in the workforce confers multiple benefits. From an individual perspective, productive work positively impacted physical, cognitive, and mental health.13,14 These health benefits may be especially relevant to senior academics, who derive a strong sense of fulfillment from their professional roles and relationships. The satisfaction and financial capital that faculty members gain from their work are critical to their quality of life.3 From a societal perspective, individuals in higher education who choose to postpone retirement can continue using their advanced skills and expertise to make a difference on a local and international scale. Senior academics also strengthen the national economy by producing goods and resources, paying public taxes, and reducing the burden on social services.9,15 These economic contributions will become increasingly important as the baby boom generation ages.16
Temporal Trends over a Decade in Serious Vision Impairment in a Large, Nationally Representative Population-based Sample of Older Americans: Gender, Cohort and Racial/Ethnic Differences
Published in Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2022
ZhiDi Deng, Esme Fuller-Thomson
Overall, the prevalence and age-sex-race/ethnicity adjusted odds of vision impairment declined substantially across the decade. However, in developing future projections of the burden of visual impairment in the US, it is important to note that the observed decline in prevalence was driven by decreases of approximately 26% in the age-sex-race/ethnicity-adjusted odds of vision impairment among those aged 85 and older, and 16% decline among those aged 75–84. In contrast, those aged 65 to 74 had much more modest improvement (i.e. 2.6% lower odds over the decade). If the Baby Boom cohort (e.g. those 65 to 74) continues to have this fairly small trajectory of improvement as they age into their late 70s and 80s, the downward trend in the future may be much less steep than that seen from 2008 to 2017.
Perioperative care of geriatric patients
Published in Hospital Practice, 2020
Aditya P. Devalapalli, Deanne T. Kashiwagi
The older population, or adults aged 65 and older, is expected to nearly double across the globe from 8.5% of the total population in 2015 to 16.7% in 2050 [1]. In the United States alone, there are an estimated 49.2 million people aged 65 and older; the prevalence of disabilities steadily increases with age, with approximately 15% of people aged 65 to 74 having a serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs compared to 48% of people aged 85 and older [2]. Of the 48.2 million ambulatory surgical procedures performed in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers in 2010, 19% were conducted in patients aged 65–74 and 14% in those aged 75 and older [3]. These numbers are only expected to increase as the general population ages, with rapid growth particularly in those 65 and older, largely owing to the baby boom cohort born shortly after World War II; by 2030, this group will represent at least 1 out of every 5 people among the US population [4]. These individuals will require considerable utilization of the health-care system, and medical professionals will need to be well-equipped with how to care for them.