Future Health Care Trends and Impact of Ageing

Future of health care, from sickness to performance, disease prevention, health promotion and wellbeing, wellness. Impact of ageing, older people, senior citizens - growing health care demands. Health trends in treatment of genetic disease, inherited medical conditions, HIV, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis etc. How patients, clients, over the counter therapy customers, and consumers of health care products will manage their own treatment. Patrick Dixon is a health care keynote speaker at many public health conferences and forums on future of the pharmaceutical industry. Patient choice and public health policy changes with government budget health cuts, health care rationing, post code lotteries. How doctors and nurses will manage patients who often know more about their own medical condition, have made their own diagnosis, have made decisions about their own treatment (patient autonomy). Impact on over the counter pharmaceutical industry, chemists, drug stores, pharmacies and retail sales of health related products. Wellbeing, disease prevention, health promotion, vitamin and health supplements, dietary supplements are all changing consumer behavior. How computer aided diagnostics will change clinical management of many medical conditions in hospital, clinics and in community care settings. Health care management and allocation of resources will be influenced by community-based diagnostics. Future of the pharmaceutical industry with non-prescription medicines, remedies, therapies, drugs. Prescribing new treatments using new diagnostic tools, and patient clinical care pathways. Health policy development by governments, and health insurance companies. Patient survival and increase in life expectancy with early diagnosis and treatment using equipment bought by consumers for home use. Future of the NHS and national health service, medicare in America. Funding of health care in future -- people expected to fund their own health needs.