Integrating social media into everyday health care
The desire to be touched by and connected with others is among our most primal and, until recently, our most untapped qualities.
There have always been powerful signs of it. Those of us who remember exchanging letters with distant friends and family know the palpable anticipation when a letter arrived.
Years ago I visited the senior center at Pan American Hospital in Miami, an institution beloved by the “abuelos” (grandparents), mostly elderly …