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NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Josee Archer
jarcher@seekwellness.com
800 840-9301
Don Ardell Introduces New Blog on SeekWellness.com
September 20, 2007, Concord NH – Don Ardell, PhD and internationally known wellness writer and speaker, has created a new blog on www.seekwellness.com. Entitled, Wellness Perspectives on Politics, Sex and Religion, the blog will highlight Ardell’s view that “Wellness is hugely affected by all three areas.”
“No less an astute observer of human conduct as Anthony Trollope regarded politics, sex and religion as the stuff of high comedy, and I feel the same way”, says Ardell. “In a sensible, rational world where people were truly free, sex would be delightful and always an unbounded pleasure, politics would be a vehicle for expanding human freedoms and religion would not, as Christopher Hitchens suggests in his book God Is Not Great, poison everything.”
Ardell, the author of fourteen books on wellness, has just published his fifteenth called, “Aging Beyond Belief, 69 recommendations for a more healthful, enjoyable and meaningful existence at every stage of life.” He also publishes the Ardell Wellness Report every Friday and writes a regular column at the website called, “Wellness in the Headlines.”
Don has a bachelor's degree from George Washington University, where he majored in sociology, varsity basketball and Janice Larkins, the prom queen who became his first wife and mother of his children Jeanne and Jon. He then studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, earning a master's degree in urban planning. Years later, Don won a Bush Fellowship in Minnesota, which he used to enroll in the Stanford University Business School's Senior Executive Program. Soon thereafter, he pursued a doctorate in health and public policy, which was awarded in 1979 (Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, OH).
“I personally enjoy talking and writing about the three areas of sex, politics and religion because all three are usually the source of so much human grief,” responds Ardell. “I hope my blog inspires readers to learn more about REAL Wellness as presented in my Wellness Center at www.seekwellness.com/wellness.”
Wellness Partners, LLC was formed in 2001 by a group of healthcare professionals who want to put the “heart” back into healthcare. They hope to empower consumers and form partnerships with them to change the health care system through education, interaction and support. Most importantly, they want the consumer to seek wellness always. Access their web sites at:
www.seekwellness.com
www.sephiaschoice.com
www.ContinenceNurse.net
For more information, contact Josee Archer at 800 840-9301.
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NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Josee Archer
jarcher@seekwellness.com
800 840-9301
Ask an OAB Nurse Now Available on SeekWellness.com
September 27, 2007, Concord NH – A free service that allows visitors to ask questions about incontinence and related topics and receive answers from experts is now available on SeekWellness.com at www.seekwellness.com/askanoabnurse/. The questions are submitted anonymously and are answered by a panel of nurse specialists in pelvic health.
Diane K. Newman, RNC MSN, CRNP FAAN, a certified nurse practitioner and internationally-known authority on incontinence is in charge of the program. According to Newman, “Urinary Incontinence (UI) is the unwanted leakage or loss of urine. Overactive bladder (OAB) is the uncontrollable urinary urgency and frequency usually experienced with UI”. These two conditions are very common in the United States and are estimated to afflict 33 million Americans. More than two thirds of the persons with UI and OAB are women. The total annual cost of providing care for persons with UI is estimated to be $28 billion.
“The inability to control urine is one of the most unpleasant and distressing problems from which a person can suffer, often causing isolation, depression and physiological problems,” continues Newman. “In addition to the drain on the patient, UI is also a burden for family caregivers and the community, and the major reason aging parents are put into nursing homes. Unfortunately, many people with incontinence are too embarrassed to talk about it or don’t think it can be successfully treated.”
“For example,” Newman says, “patients with overactive bladder (OAB) tend not to tell their health care providers about their symptoms and ‘episodes’. Additionally, many health care providers do not ask about urinary control problems, at least as a matter of routine or as part of an overall health assessment. OAB is quite common but, according to a recent study, only one out of four women with symptoms of OAB with urinary incontinence (UI) seeks clinical help. OAB is both misdiagnosed and under-treated, partly due to the ‘stigma’ attached to bladder control problems and partly due to the rampant misconceptions that exist among patients that inhibit them from seeking care.”
“The Ask an OAB Nurse feature is our attempt to address these issues with patients,” explains Newman. “Our visitors can search other people’s questions and our answers to them without learning anyone’s identity and, if they can’t find a relevant answer, they can ask us their own question easily. The visitor receives a reply by email and his identity is stripped from the question and answer, which are then compiled into the database for other people to use. We answer all questions and try to help our visitors find the information, support or products they need to solve their incontinence problems.”
Wellness Partners, LLC was formed in 2001 by a group of healthcare professionals who want to put the “heart” back into healthcare. They hope to empower consumers and form partnerships with them to change the health care system through education, interaction and support. Most importantly, they want the consumer to seek wellness always. Access their web sites at:
www.seekwellness.com
www.sephiaschoice.com
www.ContinenceNurse.net
For more information, contact Josee Archer at 800 840-9301.
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