Health, Wellness and Fitness   

Chatbots, which are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, can provide medical information, schedule medical appointments, and provide mental health assistance. We will cover voice-activated chatbots, behavioral health chatbots, cancer care chatbots, virtual medical assistants and symptom checkers. Chatbot ethical issues will be discussed, and we’ll close with an overview of chatbot analytics and metrics.

Disruption is taking hold of health care, with major retail pharmacy chains, payers, technology companies and others making their presence felt. In the race to transform care delivery, reduce health care costs and improve access to meet consumer expectations, this is a defining moment. This lecture examines some of the key strategic moves by Amazon, CVS Health, Walgreens, Best Buy, and Walmart and together, we’ll speculate how these strategies may play out in the months and years ahead.

"Take me out to the ball game...Let me root, root, root, for the home team..." Rendezvous with other OLLI baseball fans for an evening at Tropicana Field as the Rays take on the Houston Astros. Members can dine in the CEC Cafe before meeting the Eckerd bus at 5:40 p.m. in the Derby Lane parking lot near the McArthur Physical Education Center on campus for group transportation to the game. Tuition includes game and transportation. Meal at CEC Cafe is not included.

Join Bill and Karla Gerczak, Ambassadors for the Atlantic South Region, USA Pickleball Association in this returning OLLI class. Learn how to play a game that combines the elements of tennis, badminton and ping pong and can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Pickleball offers the same benefits as regular exercise but with fewer injuries due to the low impact nature of the game. Learn the rules and scoring of the game and delve into basic strategy. Each class will feature instruction followed by guided practice.

This activity requires a signed release and waiver form in order to participate.

This course will provide an overview of Major League Baseball (MLB) through the eyes of a baseball coach of 40 years, who is now one of 90 MLB Official Scorers. We’ll discuss what goes into scoring decisions, and some of the nuances involved in making a decision that has to be announced within 20 seconds.

RPM uses digital technologies to collect medical and other forms of health data from individuals in one location and electronically transmit that information securely to caregivers or health care providers in a different location for assessment and recommendations. Remote patient management is, by intent, about moving healthcare out of the traditional physical setting of health delivery, into the house, and to where people live, work and play every day. Beginning with the smartphone, we will examine a variety of RPM interventions, and consider future applications.

Restore, renew and rejuvenate while learning. Discover why Harvard Medical, the Mayo Clinic, National Institutes of Health, as well as leading health care providers and educators are recommending these practices. Learn how to manage and eliminate pain, supercharge your immunity, improve balance, and reduce the risk of falling, while slowing and often reversing the impacts of aging.

We recommend “Introduction to Tai Chi” and “Introduction to Qigong” ZOOM classes to enhance your understanding of these ancient practices prior to starting series.

This activity requires a release and waiver form (linked here) in order to participate.

Restore, renew and rejuvenate while learning. Discover why Harvard Medical, the Mayo Clinic, National Institutes of Health, as well as leading health care providers and educators are recommending these practices. Learn how to manage and eliminate pain, supercharge your immunity, improve balance, and reduce the risk of falling, while slowing and often reversing the impacts of aging.

We recommend “Introduction to Tai Chi” and “Introduction to Qigong” ZOOM classes to enhance your understanding of these ancient practices prior to starting series.

This activity requires a release and waiver form (linked here) in order to participate.

Restore, renew and rejuvenate while learning. Discover why Harvard Medical, the Mayo Clinic, National Institutes of Health, as well as leading health care providers and educators are recommending these practices. Learn how to manage and eliminate pain, supercharge your immunity, improve balance, and reduce the risk of falling, while slowing and often reversing the impacts of aging.

We recommend “Introduction to Tai Chi” and “Introduction to Qigong” ZOOM classes to enhance your understanding of these ancient practices prior to starting series.

This activity requires a release and waiver form (linked here) in order to participate.

Join some of Eckerd College's Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Interns for a series of workshops aimed toward improving your mind-body-soul connection. Themes within each topic will include navigating life transitions, managing caregiver fatigue, grief and isolation through the perspectives of the mind, body and soul. Each session will include education and strategies related to stimulating, strengthening and nourishing these aspects of your overall well-being.

Join some of Eckerd College's Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Interns for a series of workshops aimed toward improving your mind-body-soul connection. Themes within each topic will include navigating life transitions, managing caregiver fatigue, grief and isolation through the perspectives of the mind, body and soul. Each session will include education and strategies related to stimulating, strengthening and nourishing these aspects of your overall well-being.

We spend time and money acquiring things from a variety of sources to enhance our lives and then sometimes find that the those very things keep us from taking the next right step in our lives (moving into a smaller safer space, or across country, or aging in place). Our attachment to things can be the obstacle that keeps us stuck. Learn how to begin letting go of things and to begin living your best life. We will look at the STAIR process for downsizing sucess with concrete suggestions to get you moving in the right direction to a simpler, more organized life.