This guest post is written by Jaime Todd, MBA, LNHA. His bio is found at the end. An elderly inmate was brought into the medical unit of a medium security prison to be checked for injury after an altercation in one of the housing units. He looked older than his 62 years and seemed disoriented. The nurse was not sure…
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Stress Reduction Through Yoga During Reentry (Podcast 148)
Lorry’s guest for this episode is Alexandra Wimberly, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore. She and her colleague, Dr. Malitta Engstrom, published the article Stress, Substance Use, and Yoga in the Context of Community Reentry Following Incarceration in the January 2018 issue of the Journal of Correctional Health Care. http://traffic.libsyn.com/cornrstdy/CNT148_-_Yoga.mp3 Stress and…
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Older Women in Prison: Menopause and Osteoporosis Concerns
Hazel is a diminutive 56-year-old state prisoner serving a life sentence for murder. She has been incarcerated for 18 years now and recently fell on the icy path while heading from her housing unit to breakfast early one morning. She sustained Colles fractures of both wrists. While being treated for the fractures she was also diagnosed with advanced osteoporosis. Not…
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