Open Source Wellness (OSW) is an innovative system that delivers a collection of health-related activities. This includes from physical movement, mindfulness, and stress reduction to small group coaching, healthy meals, and peer support. These are delivered to community settings, low-income housing, and medical clinics throughout the San Francisco Bay area and Washington state. Fortunately, our guest is Dr. Ben Emmert-Aronson, a psychologist and co-founder of this multi-site health and coaching program.
Topics we discussed:
- What is Open Source Wellness and what activities are promoted for members?
- How does a “behavioral pharmacy” deliver tools and strategies to change unhealthy behaviors and habits into more healthy ones?
- Who are the typical members of these programs?
- Two leading health recommendations: grab an apple and grab a friend.
- OSW’s very favorable outcomes to date. There have been significant reductions in hypertension, depression, and isolation, improved eating habits, and a 77% drop in ER visits for members
Dr. Emmert-Aronson shares the guiding beliefs and principles of OSW. He discusses how his team meets the need for preventing and treating chronic disease.
Mini Bio
Benjamin Emmert-Aronson, Ph.D., is an award-winning psychologist who co-founded Open Source Wellness (OSW). OSW brings communities together around the behaviors that underlie health and wellbeing. Dr. Emmert-Aronson speaks nationally on the importance of daily behaviors in creating health, the ways that societal forces make it much harder for members of some communities to implement these behaviors, and the health disparity this causes.
Items Mentioned for Our Listeners
Pick up a copy of Dr. Casciani’s book: Living Longer IS the New Normal
Website for Open Source Wellness
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