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Examiner.com recently reviewed the “top 10 coming shifts in wellness” from the recent recent Global Wellness Summit in Mexico City. Interestingly, many of these trends involve new wellness approaches that either are in the workplace already or that many workplaces would benefit from understanding.

These include:

• “From Workplace Wellness ‘Programs' to Total Cultures of Wellness at Work: Investments in workplace wellness will explode in the next 5 to 10 years. The cause isn’t just altruistic, but also due to the fact that unwellness at work costs U.S. businesses $2.2 trillion annually. The average Fortune 500 company spends 80 percent of its after-tax profits on employee medical costs… But rather than focusing on health issues outside of work, workplace wellness will deal with the effects of workplace stress on health.”
• “From Optional to Mandatory Wellness: Wellness has always been considered a choice, but given the costs of healthcare, chronic diseases, and aging, it may not be for too much longer. Governments will increasingly make wellness mandatory. Otherwise, they will not be able to deal with the costs of an aging population (800 million people over 60) and the staggering price tag of non-communicable, largely preventable diseases ($47 trillion worldwide over the next 20 years, representing 30 percent of GDP).”
• “From ‘In Your Face' to Imperceptible Wellness: Instead of wellness being something that you have to DO, wellness will be seamlessly integrated into our homes, workplaces, and lives. Building design will have healthy-for-humans standards, with increased air ventilation, replacement of carpets and chairs that give off toxins, and lighting tuned to your body’s circadian rhythms.”
• “From Medicine vs. Wellness to Truly Integrative Healthcare: The integration of traditional medicine and complementary/integrative medicine (wellness approaches) is finally happening. Healthcare is already shifting from disease management to a more prevention model, emphasizing good wellness behaviors like diet, exercise, and mindfulness”