Patient benefits
The key benefits of the Live Long Live Strong program are:
- Activates the patient to be engaged in decision making and involved in their own health care.
- Hyper-personalised program improves patient adherence to interventions.
- A patient centric educational program to help them gain knowledge, confidence and skills to successfully self-manage their care.
- Comprehensive risk profiling conducted at a younger age when interventions can prevent or reduce future chronic health conditions.
- Enables patient to acquire and maintain the skills to optimally manage their current chronic health conditions and avoid new ones.
- Amplifies trust between health care providers and patient.
- Cost effective program – alleviates need for personal coach.
Lily’s story
Lily is 62 years old and retired from her job as a registered nurse a couple of years ago. Lilly loved nursing, but once she hit 55 found the job increasing stressful and her heavy workload started to take a negative toll on her body. Lily embraced retirement and because she had more time on her hands, was able to turn her attention to her health and subsequently dropped a few kilos, embraced exercise in the form of an aerobic exercise dance routine and planned regular romantic interludes with her husband. Lily was very happy to gain some balance in her life, after a hectic career where she seemed to have little time to look after herself.
A few months into her retirement, Lily’s husband (after thirty years of marriage) packed up his bags and left her to move interstate with another woman – all without warning.
Lily was crushed. She felt alone, embarrassed and struggled to cope. She locked herself away for weeks at a time to deal with her trauma. Alcohol became her best friend and crutch and as time passed, her physical health eroded as she lost a lot of weight quickly, didn’t effectively manage her nutritional state and commenced leading a sedentary lifestyle. Lily felt much older than her age, felt an overwhelming sense of inertia and started to notice (albeit without interest), regular bouts of lower back pain.
Gradually Lily began to heal and realised that she had to claw back control of her life. The problem was though that even though she had a strong health background, was an intelligent woman, she still didn’t know which direction or action to take.
Unexpectedly, Lily found out about Live Long, Live Strong program online and registered to participate. This was exactly the push she needed. She registered in the program, got a referral from her doctor and when her assessments results were through, had a diagnosis of osteopaenia. Lilly also suffered from high blood pressure, so was eligible for a GP management plan.
Lilly completed the program, became inspired by the community of support around her, loved the education and went on to be actively involved in her health. She learnt the benefit of exercise, embraced resistance training in addition to her first love, dance, which she could now regularly do with her granddaughter.
