Wellness & Well-being Highlights December 31
Wellness & Well-being Highlights
for the
Week of December 31, 2023
This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics concerning an effort in the UK to bring people to together again via strategically-placed public benches to encourage and improve communications to how more employers are providing wellness benefits via AI (artificial intelligence) to how overachieving & overthinking can actually harm our physical and mental health. Today, I wish to shed some light on how, by next March, Canada may be providing medical-assisted death for their citizens with severe mental illness who opt-in. While some healthcare professionals are in favor of allowing people to die on their own terms with respect to intolerable suffering; others posit that the Canadian healthcare system is sorely underfunded when it comes to mental health which must be addressed since it is in high demand! One doctor indicated that it may be years before seeing improvement when treating complex cases. So, “hopelessness” plays a major role…as it does when it comes to suicide. However, it appears some safeguards are in place:
- 90-day wait period; and
- Approval from 2 independent doctors (including a specialist in the patient’s condition).
If fully enacted, Canada will be one of less than a dozen countries around the world that permits this controversial procedure. To that end, the ethics involving “death by doctor” and “dying with dignity” continue to be debated and are certain to flow south onto the USA’s radar.
Employers / AI / Wellness Chatbots
Canada / MH / Medical-Assisted Death
Canada’s threat to US: Fentanyl Labs
Tailoring donations & Homelessness
Outreach workers / London / Homeless Crisis
Why stimulate your Vagus nerve?
How US’ broken labor law may impact recent gains
Recent NLRB election wins do not = First contract
Children / Immigrants / US Labor Audits
Foreign nurses in the US struggle
China / Young adults / Tanking economy
Upcoming webinars, etc.:
QPR Suicide Prevention Training
STL Co Library / Headspace / Free
NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.
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