Welcome to Future Health Strategies

Future Health Strategies (FHS) has introduced an innovative new service that fills a significant gap in our system for long term care. This new service is an interactive video document which records, via an interview, the hopes a patient or family member has for his/her future care or the future care of their loved one.

FHS noticed that, despite the best intensions of care-givers, all too often the individual's inability to fully express themselves on a daily basis resulted in the care-giver recognizing the patient as having a medical history but devoid of any lifestyle history resulting in a less than fully effective care plan.

Future Health Strategies' ground-breaking service provides and manages a person's "lifestyle history" with technology. Our combined professional nursing experiences show that providing such a history improves wellbeing by helping the patient and the care-giver staff with the knowledge to deliver a more effective traditional care program more economically.

Capturing a person's lifestyle, effectively their pattern of living as expressed by their interests, habits, activities, desired experiences, and beliefs is not an easy task. FHS addresses this up till now difficult and usually costly goal through the application of a technology based interactive framework (Patent Pending). The Future Health Strategies solution allows the inclusion of medical and illness related lifestyle patterns, thereby creating an important bridge or connection into the individual's medical history.

One of the service's more tangible results is the creation of an electronic record of the individual's lifestyle to be used by staff care-givers through a simple and easy to use point and click interface. The information may be provided on different media depending on circumstances and is designed to be available and updated as the individual transitions through different facilities and care-givers.

Because it exists in archival form, it may be safely stored for years to be retrieved should a circumstance arise that renders an individual powerless or dependent on others to communicate needs or make decisions The information is stored using the latest document processing format (XML – extensible markup language) so that it may be viewed on a wide variety of user interfaces including the standard DVD format or integrated with institutional databases.

Future Health Strategies' technology-driven Lifestyle History program is designed for use by targeted corporations, special needs groups, elder care facilities and organizations that are participants within the health care system, and is particularly appropriate when used in the support of older adults and parents of adult children with special needs.