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Tips for healthy aging: Your teens and 20s

Part one of our seven-part series.
Advice based on your current decade of life. Part one of our seven-part series Aging begins at birth. Even so, the way we age changes with each successive decade of life. ……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2015/03/tips-healthy-aging-your-teens-and-20s

Getting around Seattle Pronto-style

March is #WomenWhoBike month. GHRI's Susan Brandzel reviews Seattle’s new bike-sharing program: Is it really just hop on and go?
Susan Brandzel offers her opinion of Seattle's new Pronto bike sharing program. March is #WomenWhoBike month. GHRI's Susan Brandzel reviews Seattle’s new bike-sharing program: Is i……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2015/03/getting-around-seattle-pronto-style

News release: Implementing decision aids affects care decisions in urology

Fewer invasive treatments after Group Health implemented decision aids.
  As part of the world’s largest distribution of video-based decision aids for any single organization, Group Health implemented video-based “decision aids” for men with two com……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2015/03/news-release-implementing-decision-aids-affects-care-decisions-urology

Training physicians to diagnose patient preferences

Shared decision making aligns health care decisions with patient goals. Dr. David Arterburn wants to improve the approach through physician training.
Shared decision making aligns health care decisions with patient goals. Dr. David Arterburn wants to improve the approach through physician training. We’ve shown that shared decis……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2015/03/training-physicians-diagnose-patient-preferences

Will Julie get Parkinson's?

Pete Beidler asked his daughter, a public health researcher, how to talk about his motor speech disorder. Here’s her answer.
Pete Beidler asked his daughter, a public health researcher, how to talk about his motor speech disorder. Here’s her answer. Pete Beidler is a father, grandfather, carpenter, and ……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2015/03/will-julie-get-parkinsons