Dr. Mel Houser
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard Jul 2024
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Yeah.
And again, that was like co-created with patients and all of our patients, you know, they don't need to disclose a disability or ask for, they can ask for whatever they want, but they don't often need to because everybody gets a menu.
Everybody gets a menu of options.
So, you know, you pick your furniture, you pick your lighting, you pick indoor, outdoor, you pick from a range of sensory processing supports, executive functioning supports.
We really try to normalize multimodal communication and
We have folks who they come into the office and they're speaking communicators, but they speak at a cost.
And so they're sending text messages in the chair next to me because why not?
Why would I not want you to communicate in the way that you best communicate?
Or we've got people who they build these really cool mind maps that show their symptoms and what makes things better or worse.
They send emails, they send text messages.
Like, why would I not want you to communicate however works for you?
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, I think first I just want to name the consequences of loneliness for health are really significant.
There's research that shows that loneliness has the equivalent impact on health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day.
Whoa.
So if someone is lonely, I actually can't really get you healthy unless I address that.
And so many of the patients in our community have not had the experience of being able to show up authentically as their true selves and feel safe doing that.
And so for many people, this is the first time.
It's people learning to show up, connecting with other people who are navigating similar challenges.
And I think what I've seen is that this community-based model, it's like, I don't want to say a fast track, but a faster track.
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