The Practice of Peace - Last month's OS in San Francisco (long)

[BJ Peters]

Doug-- What occurred to me is that the staff may be relieving seniors of
responsibility for their own health care by setting these topics. How
about a theme like: What can seniors do to better manage their own
health? What are the opportunities for seniors to take charge of their
own health issues? If staff participates, they can then post some of the
topics they wish to see discussed.

Just a thought. . .

BJ Peters

Douglas D. Germann, Sr. wrote:

>Lisa--
>
>The sponsor so far is the senior living facility. This is one of those
>places which is apartments with a high level of services--change bed linens
>once a week, provide some activities in house, meals in a restaurant-type
>setting, some transportation services. Not a nursing home, nor even
>assisted living: the people here all can live alone and take care of
>themselves, and come and go a lot.
>
>They have noticed that when people go to the doctor, they often come back
>worse than when they went, and they seem to have to wait longer in doctors'
>waiting rooms than younger people.
>
>What they are hearing from doctors is that the patient could not identify
>any definable problem, so we saw no reason to change medicines or
>treatment, or we tried this or that.
>
>My contact thinks one answer would be for people to hear what doctors need,
>and another might be to develop a list of symptoms and questions before
>they go to the doctor. Sounded like a good place for Open Space to me, so I
>suggested it.
>
>It seems to me a title of What are the issues and opportunities for
>improving health (or healthcare) for seniors? might be a good one.
>
>Her fear is that the doctors and nurses might be reluctant to commit to
>more than one meeting. My thought is that when they see the magic of
>talking with people, they will want to come. And of course, whoever
>comes....
>
>I fear the idea of having one group set the agenda for another may be an
>effort of controlling, which might scuttle the later sessions. How do you
>think this might be approached more openly?
>
>                              :-Doug. Germann
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