Discusses the role healthcare providers can play in supporting patients during winter by reaching out and communicating care strategies. Emphasizes that small steps, encouragement, and open communication can help individuals tackle winter health challenges.
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Perfect, makes perfect sense to me. If you could give someone else some advice about staying healthy in winter, what would you tell them? Again, small steps. I would say, especially in the winter, try to stay active as much as you can, especially indoors, because we don't stay active, you know, it's cold, it's dark, you just want to sit on the couch, you just want to eat, you just want to kind of make yourself feel mentally better. So I would just say, again, small steps, pick a small goal every week that you can achieve. And it doesn't have to be five or six things, it could just be one small thing like drink more water or you know eat five fruits a day or you know maybe exercise for 10 to 15 minutes. That is very very good and the next question is, last question, what could a health care provider do differently to better support people during the winter and we're thinking about preparation communication or types of care? Again I feel like they should just reach out and send more steps you know, hey here you know we're thinking about you we know that this is a difficult time of the year for everybody especially with holidays people get depressed they don't want to work out like you said they're traveling you know so there's a lot of ways that you can fall off track but just your health care provider just to reach out and just state hey that we're here we we know that you may not reach out to us but we're here if you need to and just thinking about you and i think people react better when somebody just says, Hey, I'm here. I care about you. Listen, I've run out of questions, but that was really, really helpful.
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