18.06.09 - Gerhard Lichtenauer -

[D+241] lifestyle medicine needs to overcome repair medicine

Style medicine of life to prevent a demographic meltdown and care collapse.
Reversal of the health system BEFORE the Crash of social systems is a question of Survival !

By turning away from the repair medicine, to a life-medicine, the health system would remain financially viable, but also the need for care not to overdo it, but a affordable size.
Costs truth in time to introduce, would help that it does not need to come in spite of Ageing of the society, even to the feared increase in the need for care. Great challenges require sensible solutions.
Urgent action is needed, a staunch desire to design is called for.

OPEN LETTER

to Mr. Minister of health Alois Stöger,
to Mr. Minister of social Affairs Rudolf Hundstorfer,
as well as the disabled speaker of the Parliament political groups:

Österr. Citizens ' initiative “the Home home”

Subject:	Life style medicine versus drugs must be made – where the health system is sorely in reversed – survival question of our Generation!
Date:	Tuesday, 18. June 2009, 11:44
From:
To:	Alois Stöger, diplomé, Minister of health, Rudolf Hundstorfer, Federal Minister for labour, social Affairs and consumer protection
To:	The area of speaker for people with disabilities: Ulrike Königsberger-Ludwig, SPÖ Dr. Franz Josef Huainigg, ÖVP Ing. Norbert Hofer, strache Helene Jarmer, GREEN Ursula Haubner, BZÖ

Ladies and gentlemen,

in connection with recent calculations of the “Economist”¹what is the cost of the impending demographic disaster ten times the current “crisis” will amount to ² (For an explanation of the consequences of unnecessary), I would like to point out that the reversal of the current “repair medicine” in a “life medicine,” a question of Survival all social systems, and no time to lose!

It is a question of Survival of our Generation of “baby boomers” and our children and grandchildren!

To my remarks about the the “third pillar” of a affordable care financingin my considerations for the care of backup, there is an interesting, current Link:

Source: “Lifestyle versus medications” (15.6.2009)
Springer medonline (Springer-Verlag, Vienna) / VIVIT-Institute – Vorarlberg (Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch)

“... Opportunities for life style medicine

The previously formulated thoughts lead to a clear conclusion: Life style measures should be early and sustained are taken. This applies equally to diet and exercise. Long-term research programs with long-term funding base are necessary to get reliable data and to achieve the improvements in treatment. This is by no means illusory.
Diabetes prevention studies, for example, in Finland (16) and the USA (17), have shown that in patients with impaired glucose tolerance, or other precursors of Diabetes mellitus with lifestyle measures, more can be achieved than with drugs, when it comes to prevent the onset of Diabetes mellitus. The measures can be simple – for example, the predominant Omission of higher refined carbohydrates such as white bread. ....” ³

My series of articles for the care of backup can be read here:

14.09.2008 Nursing care reform, part 1: 15 years care money a “success story”?
14.09.2008 Nursing care reform part 2: misuse of maintenance money? There are actually!
14.09.2008 Nursing care reform part 3: the shadow sides of the care system
14.09.2008 Nursing care reform part 4: responsibility and justice truck
24.09.2008 Care financing, part 1: paradigm shift from Economism to human value
24.09.2008 Care Finance part 2: program maintenance backup
24.09.2008 Care financing part 3: Just a base for just “nursing Care”
24.09.2008 Care financing part 4: ignorance is the main problem of justice is needed!

Warm greetings and a glorious Sunny day wishes
Gerhard Lichtenauer
The Initiator of the Austrian citizens ' initiative “the Home home” [URL removed, note.]
Publisher of Katja's Blog: “katja.at”
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Addendum dated 22.06.2009:

It should read: calculations of the International Monetary Fund- quoted in “The Economist” ↩
Source www.economist.com on Jun 11th 2009: article “The big sweat” ... “According to the IMF's calculations, the present value of the fiscal cost of an ageing population is, on average, ten times that of the financial crisis. Left unchecked, demographic pressures will send the combined public debt of the big rich economies towards 200% of GDP by 2030.” and article “The biggest bill in history” ... “By 2050 a third of the rich world's population will be over 60. The demographic bill is likely to be ten times bigger than the fiscal cost of the financial crisis.” ↩
Colored highlighting by the author of Katja's Blog ↩