CHARLOTTE: Skilled nursing homes are continuing with the failing strategy of being generalist providers to the aged, and ignoring specialist long term growth niches.
Very few have noticed the multigenerational obesity/bariatric care opportunity.
Even medical practices are ignoring the epidemic.
The researchers have scrutinized the anonymised health records of more than 9,000 obese and overweight adults.
The researchers looked at all the weight management options provided, including lifestyle advice, specialist referrals, and prescription of obesity drugs.
The average age of the patients was 56. Some 60% were overweight and 40% were obese, including 5% who were morbidly obese with a body mass index (BMI) of 40kg/m2 or more.
Between 2005 and 2012, no weight management intervention was recorded for most (90%) of the overweight patients. Many practices didn’t record any interventions at all for obese patients during this time…