The Healthy Aging Package is where I empower middle-aged and older adults to maintain their health as they age, with a focus on retaining their muscle and bone mass.
The Healthy Aging Package was initially for healthy older adults without health conditions and normal lab test results, but has been expanded with an option for those with well-managed type 2 diabetes, hypertension, or cholesterol. Dietary support aimed at continuing to improve these conditions through dietary and lifestyle changes is part of a comprehensive healthy aging strategy.
*For middle-aged and older adults who have routine health conditions, but whose lab results are not yet within lab normal values, the Comprehensive Dietary Package is the place to begin.
The Healthy Aging Package is broken down into four separate, dated services, as follows.
1. In-depth clinical assessment: The first service in the Healthy Aging Package is an in-depth clinical assessment, which is broken into two parts:
a. The first part of the assessment includes review of personal and family medical history, recent lab results, current medications and nutritional supplements, as well as your waist and hip measurements (10 minutes).
b. The second part of the assessment is a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review, where I will collect detailed information, including what you like to eat and when, food likes and dislikes, religious, cultural, or ethical dietary restrictions, and other factors that impact your health and weight, such as sleep habits and activity level (50 minutes).
2. Design of an Individual Meal Plan: The second service is the design of your individual Meal Plan, tailored to help you accomplish the goals that you set. Your Meal Plan will take into consideration your nutritional needs as an older adult in the context of the information collected during the assessment, medications you may be taking, risk factors you may have, lab test results, food preferences, and food restrictions, if any. It will serve as a nutritional roadmap to bridge the gap between your goals and an achievable and sustainable lifestyle. It will also take any guesswork out of what to eat, when to eat, and how much to eat to maintain your health long-term, while providing plenty of variety and choice.
A detailed, multi-page Meal Plan Summary handout will be prepared to accompany your Meal Plan, summarizing the content of what you will be taught during the upcoming Nutritional Education Session. This Summary will also serve as a reference for you as you implement your Meal Plan.
The turnaround time for completing your Meal Plan will be approximately 2 weeks from the time I receive any requested or missing information, such as any nutrition labels or pending lab test results.
3. Nutrition Education Session: The third service is the Nutrition Education Session, which begins with you receiving your Meal Plan, as well as the detailed, multi-page Meal Plan Summary handout.
The visit will begin with a review of any existing risk factors, including weight, waist circumference, or out-of-range lab test results.
It will be followed by step-by-step teaching of your Meal Plan, including food categories, serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions within each food category at each meal. This session will walk you through implementing your Meal Plan, so all you need to do is decide what to eat.
You will also be provided with specific dietary and lifestyle recommendations to help you achieve the goals that you set.
Unless time doesn’t permit, the session will conclude with an opportunity to ask questions to clarify what you were taught. You will also be invited to send an email with questions you may have within a few days of the Nutrition Education Session, and your email will be answered at my earliest convenience so that you can begin to implement your Meal Plan.
4. Follow-up sessions for coaching: The fourth service is a choice of follow-up visits that are to be used within 3 months of the assessment visit.
(1) Two half-hour follow-up appointments: each 1/2 hour visit is for reviewing weight and waist circumference, and answering questions about implementing the Meal Plan, or about making additional food substitutions, or following the Meal Plan while traveling.
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(2) A combined one-hour follow-up appointment: the first half hour will be spent reviewing weight and waist circumference, and how you are eating relative to the designed Meal Plan, and the second half hour will be used for me to adjust your Meal Plan based on changes you would like, or your revised weight and waist circumference, and then email it to you.
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