Age Well With Vitality - Express Interest Here

What Is Involved?

Individual One on One Consultations

You will have the opportunity to have three one on one individual appointments to assist you with developing a specific plan for exercise, nutrition and cognitive stimulating activity. That is you will receive an initial appointment, review appointment and a discharge planning appointment with each clinician. The consultations are usually 4-6 weeks apart. In order to make it easy for the participant to see each clinician we off the appointments at the same time, in the same place.

What Is Involved?

Building Nutritional Reserve - Dietetics

Our Dietitians work closely with you to identify any small but meaningful changes to your diet that may optimise your function, including building strength and resilience. Unfortunately a very common sign of aging is the process of sarcopenia, in which over time people can slowly lose muscle mass. This can occur often after the age of 30 years but accelerate after the age of 50 years. The slow loss of muscle mass is often difficult to discern as body weight may remain the same, but activities often feel harder to achieve. The timing and volume of Protein within our diet can play a significant role in minimising or reversing muscle mass loss. Combining exercise with an optimise Diet is a great way to improve our health and assist in becoming more robust. Indeed the most feedback our program received from participants is that they did not realise how important the amount and timing of protein was as they get older. To learn more about Diet and protein click here.

What Is Involved?

Supporting Mental Health and Wellness

Our mental health clinicians can assist you to develop mental health wellness strategies to maintain mental health and wellness. Additionally they can assist you in the early phase of navigating the mental health space. To learn more click here.

Is the Vitality Program for You or a Family Member? Take Our Quiz

• Do you try to do the best you can to Age Well and stay Healthy, and are interested to learn more? 
• Would you like to do more and feel better but would like to have support to get started on your Aging Well Journey?
• Have you recently lost weight, or have reduced energy reserves?
• Are you recovering from a recent health setback or illness/surgery?
• Have you recently had a fall or fear falling? 
• Are you interested to learn more about current concepts on ways to improve your brain health?
• Do you walk with a gait aid or regularly use furniture or walls for balance support?
• Finding things around the home harder than usual?
• Would you like to give yourself the opportunity to learn current best practice health advice to stay healthy and out of hospital, and remain an active member of the community?

Our program serves a diverse range of people if you answered yes to any of the above questions the Vitality Program may be suitable to you or a family member to provide you with tools to age well with Vitality. Express Interest Here.

Program Objectives

To provide participants within the program and their families with the tools and information they need to make lasting changes to their health and wellbeing.

Primarily this program aims to:

1. Reduce the need for institutional care. Keep people in their own home, and active in the community.
2. Reduce the frequency of hospital admissions and reduce the duration of any admission.
3. Reduce the frequency of avoidable falls, and severity of falls related injuries.
4. Promote a healthy mind and body lifestyle to manage mental health.

Recent clinical research has been conducted that suggests that we can halt and even reverse the changes associated with frailty¹. Programs that have the greatest success in improving vitality and reversing signs and symptoms associated with frailty have a number of team members that bring their own expertise and work together to achieve great results. These team members combine their knowledge of exercise, nutrition and cognitive training². The team members of The Vitality Passport include:

• Physiotherapist/Exercise Physiologist
• Dietitian
• Occupational Therapist
• Mental Health Clinician

To view our clinical team click here