Individuals who are neurodivergent face disparities in quality of care, communication access, and employment, particularly nonverbal individuals and those with intellectual disabilities. Implicit bias and limited access to key services exacerbate these challenges. Executive functioning, sensory differences, and anxiety can …
Neurodiversity emphasizes diverse ways of thinking, learning, and behaving, and posits that people interact with their surroundings in many ways, with differences being strengths versus deficits. Health care professionals (HCPs) can improve outcomes for individuals who are neurodivergent by focusing …
Obesity care is an ongoing concern for clinicians and caregivers, particularly those who care for individuals in communities with limited resources and higher rates of overlapping comorbidities. Compounding these concerns are the forms of bias that can affect care for …
It is critical that health care professionals (HCPs) address disparities associated with obesity, which is strongly linked to cardiometabolic comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia – conditions that affect individuals across various populations. While increasingly effective …
Generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) is a chronic neuromuscular disorder that results from destruction of the neuromuscular junction by pathogenic autoantibodies, partially through the actions of the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn). Traditional therapies only partially alleviate the heavy disease burden and …
The guidelines for obesity care have been changing, including approaches to diagnosis, innovative treatments and recommendations, and management strategies; however, obesity care for those in underserved communities has not kept pace. Clinicians in these communities need education: not only about …
To provide equitable obesity care, caregivers must challenge the common misperception of obesity as the result of character flaws; instead, they must recognize obesity as a chronic disease with genetic, socioeconomic, and cultural components. Implicit bias, the oftentimes subconscious misperceptions …
More than 32 million adults in the United States currently have diabetes, 90% of whom have type 2 diabetes (T2D) which can lead to both microvascular and macrovascular complications, and greatly compromise health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and confer significant …
Neurodiversity and mental health often intersect. In differentiating psychiatric conditions (e.g., depression, anxiety) from cognitive conditions (e.g., autism spectrum disorder), health care professionals (HCPs) must facilitate accurate diagnosis, appropriate selection of treatments, and individualized care. As accurate assessment is key …