LIA
LIFESTYLE INSTRUCTION AID
The People Healer
Health Intervention
The LIA Project
The LIA Project is a proposal to construct a LIFESTYLE INSTRUCTION AID (LIA) Program that will teach people optimal health secrets and pain relief self-help strategies, in a standardized format. Think of it as first aid for lifestyle modification. The LIA project is not so much a health promotion project, but more of a self-help health intervention project.
Optimal Health Secrets, Definition
Things a person can do for themselves that improve the length of their life and the quality of their life.
Pain Relief Self-help Strategies, Definition
Things a person can do for themselves to lessen their pain.
The LIA Approach
The approach of the LIA Project is to train lay people to become LIA instructors who supply motivation and encouragement to the public to follow a recommended Action Plan.
Action Plan
The Action Plan is generated by a questionnaire. (Details are confidential and can be discussed later.)
The LIA Goal
The goal is to teach people to be active in helping themselves with pain relief and optimal health strategies. LIA helps people avoid use of the medication-drug system and the medical system, unless a true emergency occurs.
Inclusion Criterion for Phase I of LIA Development
At a minimum, the following five categories are included.
1. Proper posture and deep fibre self-help techniques
2. Nutritional modification, the Pain Relief Diet
3. Exercise
4. Rest and Relaxation
5. Attitude and Perspective in life
If you think this goal is a worthy, worthwhile goal then please continue reading. When you are finished, please contact us to become part of the LIA Team.
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Concepts
This new service industry would set standards and train LIA instructors, who would measure a client’s level of optimal health and then teach people optimal health secrets and pain relief self-help strategies in a standardized fashion.
The LIA project will teach people how to get healthy and stay healthy, and will directly aid them in a face-to-face contact. A key point in the LIA concept is the idea of standardization.
At first glance it is difficult to see how one could possibly standardize this divergent field that encompasses so many health care professionals. After much thought on this over many years a model took shape. We now have a prototype questionnaire that works well in paper format.
The reason there is a need for LIA instructors is clear. Health care costs skyrocket when people do not take care of themselves. But, people need to feel that they have control over themselves, to make decisions as they see fit. It is possible to offer this control without forcing it.
The LIA project would have some bearing on cost containment for the insurance industry of which the government is a major player. Self-help pain relief strategies have the potential to reduce drug usage and that translates into savings for insurance companies. The LIA project also has the potential to reduce medical visits and that too, has the potential to reduce prescriptions given for pain syndromes. Both of these areas are of interest to insurance companies.
Issues
We know the medical system is vitally necessary, but we also know that it is a spiral sink hole for money with no end in sight. The LIA Project is a concept that can help take the load off the medical system and the exciting thing about LIA is that it is a self sustaining system with no financial drain to governments attached.
We want a place for people to go for optimal health help that is not medically oriented. We want people helping themselves. We want people staying out of the medical system unless it is a true emergency. The LIA Project offers all this.
LIA tackles the back end of the health care line up.
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Lots of government money is going into the front end of the lineup by increasing hospital efficiency and the numbers of medical doctors. LIA targets the back end of the line up by helping people avoid the medical system in the first place. LIA puts prevention to work where it does the most good. see the article The Back End of the Health Care Lineup.
LIA is a self sustaining system
with no financial drain attached.
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LIA can be thought of as a sociopolitical decision that makes cost effective sense. A bonus is that it will pay for itself many times over and can even bring in money from outside the country. It is a win-win situation to use an old vernacular. LIA adds that extra touch of face-to-face contact. This is where the motivation to continue an optimal health lifestyle will occur. Getting large numbers of people to continue a healthy lifestyle appears to be somewhat of a problem. Emotional issues, willpower, cost, and outright laziness all tie in somewhere. People need help. LIA makes that help easy and cost effective. LIA fits the bill.
LIA adds that extra touch of face-to-face contact.
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Rationale
The rationale for LIA is that increased fitness and increased knowledge will bring less cost in health care. The LIA project would teach pain relief self-help lifestyle strategies and optimal health secrets on a face-to-face basis. There is really not much than can compete with that type of intensity. Optimal health secrets and pain relief self-help strategies would translate into reduced medical visits and thus, reduced medical costs. However, standardization is the key element of control that needs to be grasped and the LIA project offers that.
How do we know LIA will work?
LIA comes from the background of advice that health care professionals currently dispense to their patients. These professionals take information from research and from professional best guess advice. Today the efficiency is low because there is no follow up plan and there is no standardization of advice. LIA is a novel new idea to increase efficiency and offer standardization across multiple professions.
One might ask what particular efficiency needs to be increased?
That question is easy. People need more one-on-one help, especially in the field of maintaining motivation for a lifestyle modification that they previously decided they need. People cannot learn CPR by seeing it done on TV. They need one-on-one training. Likewise people need one-on-one training for lifestyle modification. They will get one-on-one training with LIA. They will pay for this training themselves, thus avoiding the burden on governments to fund ongoing lifestyle modification training.
Action Plans are nice, but present a problem. People need leadership in prioritizing items in recommended action plans. LIA gives all this and more. LIA does not tread on the toes of established health care professionals because of the way the LIA project is designed. No diagnosis is required to generate the LIA Action Plan.
Do we have scientific evidence that LIA will work?
Yes. LIA does not deviate radically from what science has already shown. It is from science that the LIA principles came from. It is known that past education of the public has been working, to a degree. What we want to do is improve the efficiency of education to the point where government dollars spent on health care go down not up.
Some things need to be addressed with more intensity, like the obesity issue. There is presently a large number of commercial establishments offering ever changing plans for weight loss. Some work, some don’t. Scientific evidence says that most don’t work in the long haul as they are presented today. Little, and ineffective, one-on-one standardized contact may be why. LIA bumps up the intensity in a cost effective, standardized, face-to-face way.
Most people need help in deciding what to do and help with continuing to do it. LIA will measure people, will tell a person what they need to do, and then will help them solve the problems involved with getting it done. A LIA foundation will standardize this procedure, not only across the country, but around the world. The potential is quite great indeed. The opportunity to lead with LIA should not be lost to others.
LIA will measure people, will tell a person what they need to do, and
then will help them solve the problems involved with getting it done.
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What makes LIA more likely to work than other approaches like TV advertisements?
LIA is a face-to-face promotion of healthy lifestyles and pain relief strategies. LIA will follow a centralized standard much like CPR does. The one-on-one counselling sessions offer more intense follow up on lifestyle modification efforts.
Why are insurance companies and governments important in this concept of LIA?
Insurance companies have a vested interest in keeping people healthy and out of doctor’s offices and hospitals. The healthier people are, and the longer they live, then the less overhead for insurance companies. Companies involved with health care, optimal health, and pain relief, as well as insurance companies involved with health insurance should pay particular notice to the concepts involved with the LIA Project. This is especially so for provincial governments in Canada.
The LIA project offers a method, that people pay for themselves, that helps them improve their health. Insurance companies, and provincial governments across Canada, should be sponsoring the LIA Project and offering incentives for people to get involved with a LIA instructor.
How can the LIA project be good PR for Canada?
Everyone across the country is interested in a healthy long life. The LIA project can be fashioned into a project that is another spoke in the circle that holds the country together. The LIA project can become a bonding process that identifies Canada as a progressive nation delivering good effective concepts to the world. LIA is a good concept. The potential to bring in international money with the LIA project is great, an added bonus for this program.
The idea is to measure optimal health then help people improve it.
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The LIA Project Vision
We wish to create jobs through a new service industry, create a new tourist industry, and standardize optimal health secrets and pain relief self-help strategies, in a format that offers easy central updating of protocols as newer research points the way. Our vision is to develop a program that establishes the reputation of LIA instructors as experts on optimal health secrets and pain relief self-help strategies that health care professionals will feel comfortable referring their patients to.
We wish to create the niche, build demand for the niche service, and train LIA instructors to service the demand. Ancillary products and services will be developed in due course.
LIA Service Delivery
We see the delivery of the services occurring in home office setups, small office venues, and in larger shopping mall formats. We would hope that the future would see an integrated shopping mall dedicated to address all five of the Optimal Health Secrets ‘Circle of Wellness’ parameters. Those parameters being 1. Spinal health, 2. Nutrition, 3. Exercise, 4. Rest & Relaxation, and 5. Attitude & Perspective. Addressing these five areas of health concern will reduce the load on the medical system and thus, save health insurance dollars.
The Future
A suitable facility offering professional services along with alternative therapies and LIA instructors would be ideal. This mall would be marketed as the premier place to go for optimal health secrets and pain relief self-help strategies. LIA instructors would be marketed as the referral destination choice for MD’s to refer people to who are in need of optimal health and pain relief self-help strategies. It would be the provincial governments project to draft an incentive plan that would encourage this referral. That incentive plan may incorporate positive incentives as well as negative ones.
Overall Overview
We would like to see governments, medical doctors, insurance companies, and other health care professionals, cooperate on the establishment of this new LIA service industry. This would bring the key ingredient of personal, active participation of the public in the preservation of their health.
Find the small problems in lifestyles,
before they become big problems,
and offer people a choice in helping themselves.
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Leadership must come from the leaders.
LIA leads.
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In The Beginning
We would begin the LIA project by forming a group of interested business people who would decide on the pathway to forming a foundation. Then we would expect a series of things would happen in several phases.
Development of a LIA instructor course curriculum.
Training of the founding core group of instructors.
Development of a LIA instructor training program.
Deferral to community colleges to offer the LIA instructor training.
Marketing in trade and business magazines.
Marketing in trade shows.
Marketing to health care professionals
Future LIA Development and Integration
- Restaurant
- Hotel/motel complex
- Grocery store
- Clinic
- Fitness centre
- Spa
-Tourist attraction program
LIA Foundation Vision
The LIA foundation is visioned as a central place where an open forum of decision makers come together for discussions on optimal health and pain relief self-help strategies, where issues are raised, design is formalized, and decision by consensus occurs. Leadership is what is now needed in this field.
If you are a decision maker in an organization involved with health care, optimal health, or pain relief please contact us to arrange for a meeting and get more information on the LIA Project. Of particular interest to us are insurance companies who see value in the LIA Project.
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Optimal health secrets and pain relief self-help strategies,
doesn’t everybody want to know about that?
Don’t you want to know about that?
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