Maccabi Health to Offer Members Personal Health Score and Lifestyle Plan
Translated & summarized from Ynet by baba
Maccabi Health is introducing a free service for members aged 18 and over, providing a personal health score and a tailored lifestyle plan via the UpApp Longevity app. The initiative aims to make longevity medicine accessible by assessing habits in areas like diet, exercise, and sleep, and offering personalized recommendations. This aims to extend healthy life years and reduce the period individuals experience illness, ultimately improving quality of life and reducing national healthcare costs.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Maccabi Health launches free personal health score and lifestyle plan for members 18+.
- Service uses digital questionnaire to assess habits in diet, exercise, sleep, mental health, and smoking.
- The goal is to extend healthy life years and make longevity medicine accessible.
- Users receive a score from 0-100 and a customized plan with practical recommendations.
- The initiative aims to reduce the gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Israel.
Maccabi, a leading Israeli health maintenance organization (HMO), is launching a new service for its members aged 18 and above, offering a personalized health score and a tailored lifestyle plan. This initiative aims to make longevity medicine, which focuses on extending healthy life years, more accessible within the public healthcare system. The service will be available free of charge through the new UpApp Longevity app.
Members will complete a digital questionnaire covering physical activity, nutrition, mental health, sleep, and smoking. Upon completion, they will receive a personal dashboard displaying an overall lifestyle score and individual scores in these five areas. Based on these results, users will get a customized plan with practical recommendations and tools to identify areas for improvement and integrate healthier habits into their daily routines.
Dr. Nitzan Anou, Director of Longevity at Maccabi, explained that the score, ranging from 0 to 100, reflects reported habits rather than serving as a medical diagnosis. He emphasized that the goal is to provide a starting point for individuals to understand their current lifestyle and receive actionable advice. "The goal is not to wait for a medical problem to appear, but to make health maintenance a part of daily life," he stated.
Longevity medicine is gaining traction globally and in Israel, focusing on slowing aging, preventing age-related diseases, and maintaining physical, cognitive, and mental health. Dr. Anou highlighted the distinction between life expectancy and health expectancy, noting that while Israel has a high life expectancy, there's a significant gap in healthy life years. The initiative seeks to reduce this gap by promoting healthy lifestyles to compress morbidity, thereby decreasing the period individuals live with illness and functional limitations.
Maccabi CEO Sigal Dadon-Levi stated that the new service is a step towards making longevity accessible, providing members with knowledge, tools, and personalized recommendations to maintain long-term health. While currently not integrated with healthcare providers' systems, Maccabi plans to synchronize it in the future, enabling doctors and other medical staff to view a patient's lifestyle score and discuss health improvement strategies during appointments.
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