Change the World of Healthcare

People need a reason to make lifestyle changes. Unfortunately many of us often wait until it’s too late or aren’t motivated to start at all.

But it’s not just behaviour that needs to change - it’s the whole system. The majority of health organizations lack innovation and compelling human stories to make chronic disease prevention strategies work. Currently, most focus on identifying behavioural risk instead of inspiring behavioural change. PEPY is going to make this a thing of the past.

We need to stop focusing on life expectancy and start trying to improve our health expectancy.

Most people nowadays lose their health years before they lose their life. Chronic disease rates are on the uptick worldwide, affecting every region and socioeconomic class. And yes, many of us will get sick towards the end of our lives. But, we can cut rates of preventable chronic disease and push illness back to the end of our lives once we’re able to make a collective shift.

Treating chronic disease eats up 67% of Canada’s healthcare spending. That number can shrink if we start investing in people’s health - getting them healthy and keeping them that way - before they get sick.

Our illness care system needs to become a health care system. As a society, we’ve never been less active or more depressed.

A mere 16% of Canadians get enough physical activity to see any health benefits. 63% of Canadian millennials are considered to be at high risk for developing mental health problems.

We all wait for our cars to break down before taking them in. Don’t take this reactive approach to your health. It’s time to get proactive.

Join us and start making a shift today.

PEPY has a strong vision for a better healthcare model:

Step 1: Empowerment Health.

The purpose of PEPY is to empower you to take your health into your own hands and develop habits suited to your unique abilities, preferences, schedule, and interests. Do what you do best, do it with others, and reduce your “sick-care footprint.”

Step 2: Prevention Health

Reduce your risk of illness, while increasing your chances of making it to the other side if you do get sick. Simple, incremental lifestyle changes are all it takes: eating better, moving more, reducing stress, and embracing community.

Step 3: More Resources to Help People who Really Need It.

This payoff comes as a result of “PEPY’s Purposeful Health Care Model.” Let’s waste less resources on things we can prevent and preserve more for the things we can’t - accidents, rare diseases.

Once doctors commit to positive lifestyle medication habits and become full ambassadors of Empowerment Health and Prevention Health, this will work.

Imagine if our children grew up believing doctors empower first, prevent illness second, and treat us only after that.

Change the World of Cancer

Finding out you have cancer can be very stressful. Those 20-30 seconds can change your life. Worse yet, the current response is complex and stuck in the past. As a result, cancer patients and their families often get “lost’ in the cancer experience.

“Cancer treatment is the use of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, medications and other therapies to cure a cancer, shrink a cancer or stop the progression of a cancer. Many cancer treatments exist. Depending on your particular situation, you may receive one treatment or you may receive a combination of treatments”

- Mayo Clinic

PEPY’s goal is to create an unstoppable global mind shift away from a “clinical path” towards a more people empowered “human path” as the first step to coping with cancer.

Hey cancer, be more human.

What’s needed is a cancer coping mind shift. Most people feel like they are in shock, overwhelmed, and devastated. They may even be angry, sad or just feel numb. The fear of the unknown is probably the hardest thing to deal with.

Crisis intervention is needed the moment a person receives their cancer diagnosis. A listening ear, assistance getting home, help to process the horrible news. There are suddenly so many decisions to make about treatments, possible surgery, and recovery.

One part of the cancer process that often gets pushed aside is the psychological aspect.* How do you manage the many emotions that come with it?

It’s a lot to deal with.

*This is one of the most urgent needs identified in the Cancer Control Alberta Supportive Care Framework 2016. Page 104-105

We all enrich each other’s environment.

If you battle cancer with grit, hope, and perseverance, but still lose your fight, please understand this: Your passion, effort, commitment to self-efficacy, and determination to hold onto your dreams and greater purpose in life - no matter what the odds are – can play a major role in motivating others in how they approach their dreams, life goals, and challenges.