Jules and Beatryce Spiegel used to craft objects together from minerals and silver, enjoying the activity and time spent together.
Art exhibition celebrates creativity in dementia program
Excerpts | “It’s kind of a reassurance that there is hope after the diagnosis. You can still have a life,” Dowhaniuk said.
Joining the 10-week program is a confidence booster, giving people a chance to try new things and discover a creative side they may not have known.
“They’re not just that person with dementia,” Dowhaniuk said.
Getting together creates a support network for people coping with a very difficult situation, as well as the realization they’re not alone.
“There’s a lot going on behind the art,” Dowhaniuk said.
-->How can you utilize art programs to assist constituents in your health organization? 
Use these secrets to excel, not just to ‘keep up.’...
My favorites | Secret 5: Understand how and why online health content inspires action (changes behavior) and Secret 3 : Embrace your role as a digital health storyteller.
I flesh out Secret 4 (People matter more than tech) to say People embed themselves in the tech, and the tech system thus influences audience experience. So I avoid separating People/Technology, but I like the emphasis on People. Health design can improve by emphasizing people, for instance, to design systems that value constituent engagement. 
Excerpt | "What does it take to get into medical school today?
--> What changes or virtues ought medical school require instead? How do admissions and teaching in medical school, plus organizational culture, influence health process and outcomes? Renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's artwork is explored from a medical humanities perspective in a workshop entitled "Frida Kahlo -- The Forgotten Medical Student."...
Excerpt | "UCLA surgical pathologist uses Frida Kahlo to help recruit scientists. Renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's artwork is explored from a medical humanities perspective in a workshop entitled "Frida Kahlo – The Forgotten Medical Student."
Dr. Fernando Antelo, a surgical pathologist at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, created the workshop out of a desire to talk about science and health in a manner that would interest students from diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic strata..." 
A humorous conversation on death ritual.
-->How do you observe humor to aid in health development, fear abatement, or organizational well-being? 
"People fear the unknown, Janet said. But her son’s art shows that he dreams in the same vivid worlds many of us do – even if we can’t express it..."
-->Expressive art to offset stigma and foster connection. 
These brilliant and unusual pieces by talented artist Motoi Yamamoto are currently showing at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Kanagawa, Japan.
"The story behind Yamamoto's unusual technique is sad and tragic. He was a third-year student at the Kanazawa College of Art in 1996 when his younger sister died aged 24, two years after being diagnosed with brain cancer..."
-->Consider art benefits in grief work. 
Art and how it benefits the brain article. It introduces the brain to diverse cognitive skills that help us unravel intricate problems.
-->Does art aid brain health? Imagine applying art to help people facing a wide range of challenges. Clinical settings ought to offer art, storytelling, and ethnographic consultants to provide services to constituents (fka "patients"). 
In business, the consequences of failing to properly frame or assess an issue can be dire. Often such a misdiagnosis is the result of not having the right information.
-->This article lists negative listening types. What correlates w/beneficial listening behaviors can you "hear" benefiting health contexts? TED Talks Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on.
-->How does addressing shame and vulnerability aid in narrative health, or e.g. Mattingly's (1998) reconciling unmet expectations? 
This is a guest post by Bernd Nurnberger. The original on his blog – Community of practice and trust building - A few days ago I shared my crude model how we go from words to trust. I strung...
Excerpt:
Trust destroyers
-->To what lengths do you go to nurture trust in your organization? How does trust-building apply to reform in education? 
Traveling in Southeast Asia's Pacific Rim, Dr. Ann Futterman Collier didn't speak the language of native women but still connected with them.
"Eau Claire psychologist interweaves therapy and fiber arts..."
-->Imagine the possibilities and benefits of art and ethnographic practitioners in health reform. 
"There may be other possibilities. My point is not that I know what causes what. My point is that no one knows what causes what..."
-->Reframe health research to strategic and rich process vs. causality |
Smashing Silos & Encouraging Collaboration in Health Marketing Communications...
About digital storytelling via infographics, or image speak.
Excerpt | "I wholeheartedly embrace the trend toward visual communication, as I’m most comfortable “speaking” in images."
-->Know and utilize trends in digital storytelling and apply to health comm. 
My (Dena Rosko's) Narrative Health Board on Pinterest at http://bit.ly/zVq2nX
Joshua Leatherman, (author of If Social Media is a Game, These are the Rules: 10 Essential Rules for Developing a Profitable Social Media Strategy) wrote this piece.
Highlights:
Those who succeed in social media, those who have the ability to influence the behavior of others, are master storytellers. They have learned how to graft powerful words together that pique emotion, stimulate a need, elicit a vision, and produce engagement.
Some of the best stories are being told on social media. And so are some of the worst. If your story is disjointed, perhaps you have not yet developed your narrative.
Consider in advance how every post fits into your story, and whether it is consistent with the narrative that you're intentional cultivating. Pique. Stimulate. Elicit. Engage.
We can outline effective social media strategy all day. However, even the most accomplished music theorists will fail if they try to sing without first having exercised their voice.
We must find our story and tell it well.
http://socialmediatoday.com/joshleatherman/354136/1-essential-key-developing-social-media-influence Via janlgordon 
OXFORD — McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital will open its second annual Healing Art Exhibit on Friday, April 27.
The exhibit features 63 original works of art chosen for the purpose of creating a healing environment throughout the hospital for patients, families and visitors. 
Dena Rosko, MA-ComL, blogs about changing how and why we assume, design, organize, deliver, and communicate health... such must occur before throwing money at our existing system. 
PLoS ONE: an inclusive, peer-reviewed, open-access resource from the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE. Reports of well-performed scientific studies from all disciplines freely available to the whole world.
-->Imagine the progress in collaborating as open access online. 
The first in an a series highlighting literature about Dissociation By Olga Trujillo, J.D....
Excerpt | This is the first in an ongoing series highlighting literature and other resources on healing, trauma, dissociation and dissociative identity disorder. Periodically over the next year I will share books, articles and other resources I find. I also welcome you to share what you have read on these topics as well. This month's selection is the novel Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation by Christine Stark.
-->Indeed there's much to narrative as a modality and process for griefwork. 
Dartmouth College is spending the next five years helping China improve its health care system through a partnership that officials say could pay off at home as well. 
An interview with epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, whose research shows that what the healthiest and happiest societies have in common is not that they have more, but that what they have is more equitably shared.
Why Everyone Suffers in Unequal Societies
-->Certainly equality matters, but it's embedded in medicalized discourse and everyday clinical routine. Equality hinges on treating people as a learning organization, exercising empathetic understanding, and demonstrating compassion mediated by quality outcomes. Current practices exclude constituents from contributing to their own health, so talk of equality needs to return to changing discourse.
I recommend that health orgs design health communication and delivery systems that equalize *constituent contribution* in language, desired outcome, and form.
Learn more about health disparities & development:
http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/
http://pinterest.com/denarosko/health-reform-development/
(Ivanhoe Newswire)-- Research has shown that those who survived strokes and enjoy music, art, painting, and theater have a better chance of recovery and a hig...
Excerpt | "Identifying strategies to improve stroke recovery and patients' quality of life represent a priority for the health care system and art exposure seems to be promising..."
-->Integrating mid-level or community or arts practitioners into health reform can improve outcomes, quality of life or process, and cut cost. 
Being poor may be as great a risk factor in
Better Health Through Fairer Wealth
Excerpt | "It is always true that we have choices, but some conditions embolden us to create the future while others invite powerlessness. When it comes to health care these days, Americans are reluctant to act because we are full of fear. We are afraid: afraid because we have no health care insurance, afraid of losing our health care insurance if we have it, or afraid that the insurance we have will not cover our health care expenses. But in the shadow of those fears is an even greater fear—the fear of poverty— which can either cause or be caused by illness..."
-->I find it patronizing when clinicians and health organizations overemphasize lifestyle and the need to "educate" their constituents for a few reasons. First, such discourse ignores that people design a health system, and when they monetize that design and translate constituent collateral into their own legalized language (i.e., charts), then the system ends up colonizing the very people it purports to serve. Second, but related, such discourse ignores health disparities perpetuated by said system. Third, they dismiss existing and tacit resources via the constituent themselves.
Better: Design health communication and delivery systems that equalize *constituent contribution* in language, desired outcome, and form.
Learn more about health disparities via
http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/
http://pinterest.com/denarosko/health-reform-development/http://bit.ly/zF4jwc
Drug Fraud reform via Sen. Bernie Sanders
Excerpts | Sen. Bernie Sanders on 5/23/12 proposed tough new penalties to combat rampant pharmaceutical industry fraud.
"Companies that are fined for overcharging Medicare or Medicaid, or for dangerous illegal marketing practices, should not enjoy government-granted monopolies on those same medications," Sanders said.
The senator described "a culture of fraud" that he said permeates the pharmaceutical industry. Over the past decade, virtually all of the major private pharmaceutical companies were involved in significant health care fraud. "The question arises, is fraud within the pharmaceutical industry the exception, or is it, simply put, their business model?"
The proposal is backed by Public Citizen, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, the National Women's Health Network and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
Learn more: via Public Citizen Press at @Press Public_Citizen via False Claims Act
-->To change fraud cultures, we must change the narrative to constituent empowerment, social bonding, and other calls to action besides monetizing people's illness. |
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