Throwback to Wellness Week: Things to note

Last week, we at Old Mutual celebrated the ‘Wellness Week’. It was designed to bring awareness to health issues and how to stay healthy by adopting healthy lifestyles. There is a very common saying that ‘Health is Wealth’. Without good health, nothing else matters. In other words, if your health fails, it can overshadow everything else, including emotions, comfort, productivity, career, and social life. Depending on the severity of the health issues, it could also completely drain your finances.

To continually stay healthy, you must be an active participant in your self-care. We must have read different journals about how you can help preserve your health and wellness by maintaining a balanced diet, exercising regularly, keeping to cleanliness always, getting enough rest and sleep. But is that enough?

We thought it was important to dedicate one week to wellness as it provides an avenue for us to make a positive impact by uniting people towards a common goal of preventing critical illness and fighting diseases, promoting a better quality of life for all and sundry.

Here are three major conclusions from the week’s campaign:

Live Healthily: Live healthily, live longer. It is true that all the self-care measures earlier listed are standards for living a healthy life, but good health is not just about healthy eating and exercise, it is also about having a positive attitude, self-discipline, a positive self-perception, and a healthy lifestyle.

Get a Doctor:  It is very wise to get yourself or your family a personal doctor as a matter of priority in your healthcare plan. This is because, with a dedicated doctor, you have a medical resource who has historical and legacy understanding of you and your family’s well-being and would always be able to understand any future outcome based on this knowledge. So, believe it or not, research has shown that people who have a primary care doctor have better health outcomes.

Get Insurance: No one intends to get sick or hurt. Despite the fact that you lead a healthy lifestyle; that you stay active; you eat the right food; you don’t take risks that might affect your health; and have no history of family critical illness, you can still succumb to ill-health, which we have to admit, can be very costly. Some medical issues cannot be handled by out of pocket spending alone, this is where insurance comes in.

With insurance coverage, there is the peace of mind knowing that you are covered for medical treatment should the need ever arise. At Old Mutual, we offer a special insurance package for critical illness that pays out a lump sum in the event you are suddenly diagnosed with a specified critical illness. This cover pays out a benefit of up to N30, 000,000 if you suffer a specified critical illnesses such as stroke, cancer, coronary bypass, heart attack, or major organ transplant. It is an assurance that you are covered in the case of these eventualities.

Like we always say, don’t be caught off guard, protect yourself from critical illness and have peace of mind. For more insurance education like this, you can call Old Mutual on 01 271 9393 to arrange a free financial education session for your team, or on a one-on-one basis.  Our financial advisers can help you with the right kind of financial and insurance advice. For more information, visit your nearest Old Mutual branch or go to www.oldmutual.com.ng or follow our social media pages @oldmutualng on Facebook and Instagram and @oldmutual_ng on Twitter. We look forward to helping you with your money matters.