The Vitality Passport

The Vitality Passport is a Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network funded program focused on halting and reversing frailty in community dwelling members. Frailty is considered an increased vulnerability to external stressors, that occurs on a spectrum and is a fluid and dynamic condition. Frailty is influenced and managed across multiple organ systems – across the macro and micro level. In this sense the Vitality program is acting to assist people to stay in their own home, active community members with less need to access health services or institutional care. As such we aim to reduce the number of potentially preventable hospital admissions

The Vitality Passport Program involves individual sessions with a Physiotherapist, Dietitian and an Occupational Therapist, and if desired a low intensity mental health and wellness clinician. During these one-on-one sessions the clinicians will provide personalised advice on ways to improve Physical, Nutritional and Cognitive reserve, and provide advice on mental health and wellness. In conjunction with the individual sessions, we run a group program across 8 weekly sessions and 1 reunion group. These groups are an opportunity to exercise, learn more about the tools to age well and socialise over a free cup of coffee/tea. The results of our program over the last six years shows that we can improve many signs related to Aging and prevent or halt frailty. We have programs starting right across the Murrumbidgee district, so if you are over 65 (>55 for First Nation's people) and live in the NSW Murrumbidgee District, contact us to find out more about a program starting near you.