Current foresight student Karl Irish has had his article, “Trends Affecting the Future of Home Health Care”, accepted for publication in the October issue of Home Healthcare Nurse.
Karl, a Licensed Vocational Nurse for 20 years, has spent a few semesters researching the futures of health, exercise and healthcare for various graduate classes. This article came about as an assignment in our Proseminar class, where Dr. Hines asked us to write to a pitch letter to a publication to get our foresight research published. Karl was the one student who actually wrote up an article for submission.
His article touches on the aging Baby Boomer population and how their healthcare needs in the coming years will both overwhelm the forecasted number of doctors and nurses in the field and greatly increase the percentage of GDP spend on healthcare. So what’s happening that can curb these growing trends? Karl brings up three potential solutions: the disease management deliver model, a shift from the treatment of chronic diseases to proactive monitoring to manage chronic diseases; home healthcare with increasingly better educated nurses that are able to care for patients with complex chronic diseases; and telehealth.
Keep an eye out for the article for all the details.
Did I mention that per Dr. Hines, publication of our article results in an automatic A for the assignment? Let’s get Karl’s grade updated!
Congrats Karl!
