Weight & Lifestyle Management
Americans today continually struggle with the challenge of being overweight, along with the related physical and psychological impacts. Almost one third (31%) of the American adult population is considered overweight, noting a BMI (Body Mass Index) level just slightly above the normal range. A remaining 36% of American adults are considered to be at appropriate weight levels, many of which must focus daily on continuing to live a healthy lifestyle and maintaining an appropriate weight.1 Wellness and prevention efforts are key to minimizing chronic conditions associated with weight issues, and are vital to establishing a proper example for other family members.
Enrollment in our Health e Living program provides participants with the support, motivation and educational tools they need for long-term lifestyle improvements and weight management success.
A Unique Approach for Better Outcomes
The core of our Health e Living program is an individual assessment and personalized care plan, with participants fully engaged through convenient interactive voice response and online web tools. Our remote resources are integrated with our Personal Health Coaches to provide needed hands-on guidance, motivation and monitoring every step of the way:
- Participant Profile: Customized to participant’s personal background, information, health concerns and goals
- Health Assessments: Used to gauge and monitor risk and prevention of health conditions associated and impacted by weight
- Nutrition Guide: Built to provide diet and diet structure, caloric range, food preferences, information on how to eat outside the home, and a recipe center for new cooking ideas
- Exercise Guide: Established personalized plan for aerobic and weight training
- Special Needs: Center to address concerns as it relates to other aspects of your health and wellness
- Learning Center: Online support for the empowerment and path to living a happy, healthy and productive life with free information and courses on a variety of health topics
- Progress and Results: Input of information for tracking and reporting individualized program progress; the system network submits reports and allows selection of healthcare providers that need to be informed of a participant’s health
Our Health e Living program is designed to help participants:
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Prevent weight gain and unhealthy lifestyle habits
- Maintain regular social activities
- Maintain regular physical activities
- Improve self-image and confidence
- Keep present and future medical risks low
- Improve upon employee productivity and moral
- Build ongoing relationships with other participants for support
The Positive Directions Advantage
We understand that health plans and employers must serve the needs of varied populations, and we offer Health e Living for wellness and prevention purposes as well as Health e Weight for obesity management.
Health e Living is highly unique in that it combines the sophisticated use of technology, telephony and interactive web-based tools—along with the critical human intervention—proven to engage participants and ensure retention for the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle. Participants receive personal dietary and nutritional support in the comfort of home, along with ability to interact with other participants, resulting in continued participant involvement and motivation required to effect results.
Our program also incorporates data gathering, reporting and information technologies that are both participant friendly and compatible with our proven approach to wellness and healthy living.
Enhanced Outcomes, Increased Savings
While we all know the importance of living a healthy lifestyle, the practice and maintenance of actually living this lifestyle is quite different. Health e Living proactively helps to address the widespread and rising healthcare costs associated with weight issues and related conditions. Maintaining a healthy and active participant base ensures improved mental health, reduced formation of unhealthy lifestyle habits, enhanced employee productivity—and most importantly—the understanding that weight and lifestyle management is truly a way of life.
Notes:
1. Overweight and Obesity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web site. 2005. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/. Accessed September 20, 2005.
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