Since the Baby Boomers are transitioning into older age by 2040 and 2050, the dramatic rise in the global aging population will increase demands for ophthalmic care.
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formula. let me tell you what i think they are. okay. we must find the people suffering in silence and connect them to the care they need. did you know that nearly 50% of people who died by suicide have seen their primary care doctor the month before they die. we need to be asking the monitor for blood pressure and do vision testing, but what we realized we really need to do to move the needle is actually go find people who are suffering in silence where they work, live and thrive because many people never get to the doctor s office. so in order to go find, that means you have to equip more people with the information about how to identify when somebody is in trouble. they re not always going to verbalize it to you? exactly. they don t always have the will to come to you. right. so we have seen, you know, reductions in active duty when we actually implemented brief screening tool that can be put
we know that 50% of suicides see their primary care doctor the month before they die. we need to ask like wii monitor for blood pressure. many who show up to the emergency department who tried to take their own life are not there for psychiatric reasons. if we re not asking everybody like blood pressure and vision testing, we are not going to find those suffering in silence. but that is not enough. the undersecretary of defense wrote an urgent memo saying we must have a public health approach and put it in everybody s hands. anybody can ask these questions. people will hear this. they say this is academic, theoretical. these people won t tell you the truth. they re sneaky. they want to come in and kill everybody. you re saying the data, the science proves otherwise. how so? it absolutely proves otherwise. when people are suffering and they want help and when you ask, they re forth coming. and the overwhelming majority of