2022 Trends Wellness Architecture is a Mega-Trend in 2022 and Beyond The way people work, live and socialize has changed dramatically for most of us during the pandemic. Newly embraced lifestyle and workplace shifts, coupled with an increasing focus on climate change, has opened the gates wider for investors, developers and designers to further explore design possibilities for this new paradigm. Some of the related…
Wellness for Cancer Initiative Trends for 2022
Wellness for Cancer Initiative 2022 Trends The intention of these trends is to increase our collective health literacy about preventable cancers. Health education for 40+-year-old women is globally trending and is a primary strategy for health promotion. Making healthy lifestyle choices, the best time to prevent cancer is NOW. Making healthy lifestyle choices is very important for women in their 40s and beyond. This is…
Beyond GDP, Regenerative Hospitality and Wellness Initiative Trends for 2023
Beyond GDP, Regenerative Hospitality and Wellness Initiative 2023 Trends The Beyond GDP Regenerative Hospitality & Wellness Initiative works to inspire people, organizations and governments to think beyond using gross domestic product (GDP) as the sole reference for the health of national and global economies. These new trends demonstrate how the initiative is focused on a commitment to a regenerative economy, an investment in planetary health—and…
Must-reads from the Wellness World (May 31st, 2023)
Celebrities are talking openly about menopause. Why won’t the healthcare industry?Social media is fueling enthusiasm for new weight loss drugs. Are regulators watching?– Salon, May 21, 2023 The public discourse around menopause has dramatically improved, thanks partly to outspoken celebrities helping to change the paradigm. But all women desperately need more healthcare resources for menopause: affordable, effective, and widely available therapies and educational resources. We…
Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative Trends for 2023
Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative 2023 Trends The growth of wellness real estate and communities is one of the strongest wellness trends of 2023. The Initiative team breaks this overarching trend into six “mini-trends,” each an important factor in this wellness sector. TREND 1: S for the Win! ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance as investors look to non-financial factors to identify growth…
Unriddling Happiness: Why “Gloomy” Finns Beat High-Spending Americans
Unriddling Happiness: Why “Gloomy” Finns Beat High-Spending Americans By Thierry Malleret, economist In the new World Happiness Report, the Scandinavian/Nordic countries—as always—dominate the top-ten list of happiest nations, with Finland taking the #1 spot again. But there are numerous countries (wealthy and highly developed) that simply don’t rank as high as one would expect. The US ranks 15th, the UK 19th, France is 21st, Italy…
