Prevention
Preventative Measures
Proactive
Effective
Manageable
Healthy Aging Starts Here
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”
Healthy Aging Starts Here
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”
Our Prevention Services
and Goal Management
Stress Management
Aging Program (MAP)
and Goal Management
Collaborative health coaching can assist with goal planning and achievement, while bridging the gap between where someone is now and where they want or need to be.
- If you have difficulty staying motivated and focused on personal goals, working through challenges, obstacles, or even limiting beliefs, a health coach can support behaviours that promote mental, physical, and cognitive well-being.
Stress Management
Mindfulness involves being 100% present in the moment. Regular mindfulness-based practice can improve stress management ability and even result in positive functional and structural changes in the brain.
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction can be helpful for regulating emotions (e.g. anxiety, depression, anger), utilizing cognitive abilities (i.e. attention and memory), and managing health concerns (e.g. blood pressure, pain, sleep disturbance).
Aging Program (MAP)
The Memory and Aging Program™ is a 5-week education and intervention program developed for adults experiencing normal age-related memory changes. Through discussions, exercises, and evidence-based strategies, participants gain a better understanding of how memory works and tools to better manage their memory function.
- Anyone experiencing age-related memory changes interested in learning about memory and strategies that support their memory is welcome to enroll in this program.
Care Wherever You Are
Our team can provide virtual care services (online or over the phone) to people across Alberta who have concerns about their physical, emotional, or cognitive health.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.”
Prevention-Focused Support Promotes Healthy Aging
Healthy aging is multifaceted, and thus prevention of disease and worsening health needs to be holistic. This means taking into account the biological (e.g. genetics, neurochemistry, medical conditions), psychological (e.g. mood, personality, coping skills), and socio-environmental factors (e.g. culture, social support, education) that individually and collectively impact our well-being. Fortunately, there are many risk factors that we can modify, take control of and change to support healthy aging. Our clinicians are here to support you in strengthening your coping skills, promoting health-focused and goal-oriented behaviours, and addressing any stressors that may be creating increasing challenges in your life.
Minimizes Risk of
Declining Brain Health
Proactively managing modifiable risk factors for disease helps to minimize potential disability associated with aging and the constantly changing brain.
Promotes Healthy
Aging & Lifestyle
With active support and coaching, you can promote health-related attitudes and behaviours to maximize functional capacity and maintain vitality for years to come.
Helps Manage Stress
& Other Factors
Strengthening coping skills for stress and other life concerns promotes increased physical, emotional, and mental well-being and minimizes risk of worsening health.
Pillars of Our Practice
Assessment
Assessments are tailored to identify behavioural, emotional, and cognitive concerns related to your brain health, as well as provide diagnostic clarification, describe changes over time, and guide treatment recommendations.
Prevention
The prevention of illness begins with evidence-informed education and skill-building to help you optimize factors that support healthy aging (e.g. mental health, sleep, exercise, diet, stress management, etc.).
Treatment
Individualized treatment is designed to address your unique needs and goals, the challenges or barriers that may be interfering with your best self, and your ability to live in accordance with your values.
Prevention at Balance: Psychology
and Brain Health
Just like bringing in your vehicle for a tune-up, your health requires ongoing maintenance to keep you strong and minimize risk of future disease or disability. Although you might feel healthy in a given moment, proactively managing your health and having a coach in your corner to support this process can do just that. If you are interested in learning about ways to manage stress, plan and achieve health-promoting goals, or better utilize your thinking skills, we encourage you to connect with us to discuss whether prevention-focused support is a good fit for you.
"Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind."
Prevention at Balance: Psychology
and Brain Health
Just like bringing in your vehicle for a tune-up, your health requires ongoing maintenance to keep you strong and minimize risk of future disease or disability. Although you might feel healthy in a given moment, proactively managing your health and having a coach in your corner to support this process can do just that. If you are interested in learning about ways to manage stress, plan and achieve health-promoting goals, or better utilize your thinking skills, we encourage you to connect with us to discuss whether prevention-focused support is a good fit for you.
"Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind."
