Aging Well Initiative

Southcentral Foundation strives to support the health and wellness needs of the Elder customer-owner population in a holistic, customer-driven, and evidence-based approach. Aging Well is a system-wide initiative that builds off the foundation of robust services and resources SCF already has to optimize care for Elder customer-owners. The initiative aims to optimize care for older adults and promote wellness for customer-owners as they age. This aim will be achieved by standardizing care delivery, improving communication across the system, and encouraging customer-owners to partner with their integrated care teams to create a care plan tailored to what matters most to them.

In summary, age-friendly care is:

Customer-driven
Whole-person care
Preventative and proactive
Includes customer-owner support systems

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Aging Well

Project Contact
Operational: Crystal Turner
Clinical: Dan Hartman
Improvement: Solana Rollolazo

What Matters Most

What matters most will guide your journey to wellness. Your voice is important in meeting your goals and needs.

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The Journey Ahead

View the trail map to wellness tips below to learn ways to support healthy aging.

Education Materials

Advance Care Planning

Advance care planning lets your family, friends, and health care team know how you wish to be cared for if you become seriously ill, badly hurt, or unable to make your own decisions.

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Advanced Dementia

Advanced dementia has different signs and symptoms. These changes can be signs that a person is nearing the end of their life. During these transitions, a family may want to focus care on comfort.

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Caregiver Support

Caregiver support provides resources and services to assist caregivers and their loved ones. This may include ways to support the caregiver’s emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.

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Comfort Care

Comfort care is for those nearing the end of life. It is medical care that assists with symptoms and keeping a person comfortable.

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Depression

Depression is the constant feeling of sadness which can affect your mood, energy, concentration, and interest in activities.

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Diabetes

Diabetes is when the sugar level in the bloodstream is higher than normal. Diabetes can lead to serious health problems if not controlled.

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Digestion

Your digestive system works hard every day to digest the food you eat. After years of this, you may start to see some changes in your digestive health.

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Ear Health and Hearing

Often, we think hearing only occurs in our ears, but it is the brain that does most of the work. Our ears are the starting point of the pathway that passes sounds up to our brain. Hearing loss can happen at any or all parts of the hearing pathway. Caring for your hearing is important for wellness and quality of life.

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Exercise

Being physically active can help stay mobile, avoid falls and complete daily tasks easier. Being active can also support mental health and overall wellbeing and quality of life.

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Eye Health and Vision

Eye health is important to keep your vision at its best through all phases of life.

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Fall Prevention

Fall prevention is important to improve safety and avoid injury. By working with your health care team, you can learn the steps and changes to stay strong, improve balance and support independence.

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Financial and Estate Planning

Estate planning helps you to make financial plans based on your wishes. This includes making your will and health care wishes known. These plans are used when unable are no longer able to make your own decisions, or after you pass.

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Grief and Loss

Grief and loss are when we experience a loss, a death, or a lifestyle change. It could be a death of a loved one, a divorce, a move, or even children moving away. It is normal to feel sad and have a heavy heart for a period.

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Healthy Eating

Your body and nutritional needs change as you get older. Being aware of what, when, how, and why you eat is key. Healthy eating can be made harder due to the cost of food, difficulty finding transportation, and struggles preparing or cooking food.

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Heart Health

Heart disease is known as coronary artery disease. It is a condition in which the heart itself is not getting enough blood.

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Home Safety

Home safety is necessary to keep aging adults safe and independent in the home for as long as possible.

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Hospice

Hospice is whole person care to help those nearing the end of life. These services provide home-based team support to help people and their families.

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Incontinence

Urinary Incontinence is when you leak urine on accident. Stress Incontinence is when you leak with coughing, sneezing, or exercising. Urge Incontinence is when you cannot get to the bathroom in time after feeling the urge to urinate. Mixed Incontinence is when you have both.

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Insurance

Health insurance can benefit you and your community. Indian Health Service does not cover all costs of health care. Medicare and Medicaid can help with these costs.

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Lung Health

Your lungs supply oxygen to keep your body and organs working. Being mindful of how you are breathing is important to help you notice any changes with your lung health.

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Life Transitions

How you navigate life transitions is important and can be difficult if you have not planned for it. If you are planning a trip, you need to know where you are going and what to bring. Aging is no different. We cannot avoid the conversation, or accidents can happen.

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Life After Stroke

Your brain controls your ability to move, feel, think, and behave. Brain injury from a stroke can have an effect on these. Several factors affect the ways people experience a stroke.

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Memory Loss and Dementia

Memory loss may happen as you get older and can be a sign of dementia. Dementia is a group of conditions that affect memory, communication, and thinking.

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Medication Management and Safety

Taking too many or too few medications can be harmful. It is important for your health to take your medications as they are prescribed.

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Pain Management

Evaluation of pain is important in finding out whether the pain can be stopped or managed. Finding the source of the pain is the first step in pain management.

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Palliative Care

Palliative care is medical care focused on pain, symptoms, and stress of a serious illness. The goal is to help you and your families live peacefully and comfortably with the best possible quality of life.

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Preventing and Delaying Cognitive Decline

Cognitive decline is when a person has a hard time remembering, learning new things, concentrating, or making decisions that affect everyday life.

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Skin Care

Your skin is the largest organ in your body and provides an important barrier against infection. Skin aging can include wrinkling, age spots, bruises, and dry or itchy skin.

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Sleep Hygiene

Sleep hygiene is practicing good sleep habits and routines.

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Spirituality and Purpose

Spirituality is a part of who we are and expressed into every thought, feeling, and action.

Purpose often involves connection to people, nature, and our spiritual life.

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Teeth and Mouth Health

Connections have been found between how well your body works and how clean your mouth is. You need a healthy mouth for good nutrition, and it helps with self-esteem and happiness. Luckily, most conditions in the mouth are preventable.

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Trauma

A traumatic event can be any event that causes harm to your body, mind, or heart. It can be either be something you experienced or saw happen to others.

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Vitamins and Supplements

Choosing quality foods and staying physically active are important at any age. As we get older, your body’s needs change so certain nutrients become very important for health.

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Weight Management

Weight Management is a term used to discuss managing and maintaining a healthy body weight. Healthy body weight is achieved through healthy eating and daily physical activity.

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