Meth-Wick believes living well is essential to everyone at every age. This belief was the foundation of a program we developed, WelTracs. It offers residents a unique combination of community-based services and a successful aging program.

WelTracs focuses on the six dimensions of wellness, helping each resident identify their own successful aging journey. This is achieved using a goal-based, one-on-one conversation approach, meaning residents have the opportunity to set goals pertaining to what they want to get involved in on or off campus. This approach also provides the Meth-Wick staff with programming ideas to meet resident interests. Each new, incoming independent living resident is required to take part in WelTracs.

“We encourage all residents who have participated in WelTracs over the course of the year to participate in an annual revisit,” says our Successful Aging Coordinator, Shantel Phipps. “During these revisits, we are able to evaluate some of the goals they set the previous year, set any new wellness goals for this year, and have a detailed conversation over their health and wellness.” This was the same model that made the COLLAGE Program so successful and that program had a 100% reassessment/revisit rate from our residents who participated in this program just over a year ago.

The WelTracs program has been extremely beneficial to our residents who have been involved with it so far. It allows them to “live their best life” at Meth-Wick. If a resident is interested in a program or activity that Meth-Wick does not currently offer, we try to implement the program on campus to fill the need. Some of the programs we’ve added in response to resident requests include yoga, tai chi, balance classes, art programs and massage therapy.

Shantel adds, “WelTracs enables us to play a role in resident wellness, which enables us to get to know our residents on a personal level. We have the opportunity to learn what programs residents need in order to meet their goals. We are not wasting resources or time offering unpopular programs.”

WelTracs is designed to help seniors age successfully, in the way they would like. Ultimately, they are the decision makers when it comes to their wellness, and they make the goals that identify their successful aging journey.

Questions about Successful Aging or Meth-Wick’s WelTracs Program? Contact Shantel Phipps at sphipps@methwick.org.