Healthcare Coaching Articles

Health Coaching

Differing roles of health, wellness, and life coaches continue to abound from company to company…program to program… A mishmash of sorts? How can we gain consensus about these roles? ….How did we get here? …Early adopters of “worksite health promotion” in the ’50s ushered in new approaches and new terms…“coaching” began to evolve… How Did We Get[...]

Health Coach vs Wellness Coaching

What is Health Coaching? HEALTH COACHING is the use of evidence-based skillful conversation, clinical strategies, and interventions to actively and safely engage patients/families/clients in health behavior change to better self-manage their health, health risk(s), and acute or chronic health conditions resulting in optimal wellness and recovery, improved health outcomes, lowered health risk and decreased healthcare costs[...]

Health Coach Communication

Last week, we looked at the tendencies of five U.S. age-specific generations that have been defined. This week, we’ve added preferences and some characteristics related to the healthcare of these generational groups, hoping this will help clinician health coaches enhance their engagement with patients/families and achieve better outcomes as a result! The GREAT or SILENT[...]

Health Benefits of Walking

Why didn’t we set out on foot immediately? Were we too tired at the moment? Did we not have on the right shoes? Or did it simply not come to mind? Great for Overall Health The truth is Americans aren’t used to walking as a means of getting about, which also is a clue to[...]

Health Behavior Focus

Ms. Smith is a 60 yr.-old active adult who has just returned home following surgical repair of a torn rotator. She has a history of osteoarthritis and hypertension. Her decision to have this surgery was a difficult one. She has friends who also had this same surgery in the past. Their stories of the severe[...]

Health Behavior Change

The New Year is the beginning of a new time period; leaving the past behind; leaving habits that you didn’t particularly care for but found hard to put behind you until now. Considering the New Year, many people feel like shedding the old and adopting the new! This often translates into thoughts of a better[...]