Wellness Care is what this website is all about. So what is Wellness Care?  Well, if you think of health care as being a spectrum of care, Crisis Care is at one end of the spectrum and Wellness Care at the other.

Wellness Care asks the question "How can you improve your current level of function".  You can apply wellness care at any time in your life regardless of the particular condition you have and even when you are not aware of any known condition.

Wellness Care can be thought of as the Research and Development of human health. We don't know what our maximum potential really is.  Many people have become satisfied with the concept that the best we can do is die due to some type of disease. This is not a truth.

At one point in history, living to be 40 years old was considered a long life. If everyone decided that 40 years old was the best we could do, we would be missing out on a lot of living today.

Today we tend to think that 80 years old is a good long life, but then, if we do live that long we don't expect to be very functional. The scientific evidence does not support this concept. Many people live well past 80 years and many of them are quite functional.

Our life is designed for continuous progress.  This doesn't mean that we are going to live forever.  We are all mortal and eventually our physical existence is no longer useful.

Continuous progress occurs not just in our physical health but also our mental health, social health, emotional health and spiritual health. All aspects of our being must be addressed to truly help improve our health.

The goal of life is not to attempt to prevent our death. The goal of life is to express ourselves to the maximum extent possible. This is not measured by our physical abilities alone but also by our ability to love, to be compassionate, to show wisdom and grace. Those are the qualities that people most remember.  We need to focus on our ability to connect with the rest of humanity in a positive way until that time when our physical life ends and our journey into the spiritual world begins.

Wellness Care will help you to connect to life and maximize your expression of life.  A greater expression of life is a greater quality of life. 

This website describes some avenues available to you in the Quinte Region which can help you with your Wellness Care pursuit. Whatever aspect of your life you wish to improve at this time, there are people you can turn to for assistance. Find those people who will best serve you and work with them in a partnership. The ultimate responsibility of your health lies with you.

Make the decision to study health and wellness and then start taking some action. Don't try to do it all at once, just add a little bit more each day.  It will be an investiment that will pay off big dividends.