Health and Wellness Programs
Pre-Medicare Health & Wellness Program
The Pre-Medicare Health and Wellness Program for Rural Iowans is a program that has been developed with the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and funded through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The program, which will launch in early 2010, will provide health risk assessments,
biometric screening, health coaching, and an array of online health programs and trackers to participants.
The purpose of the program is to provide prevention programming and early interventions for rural residents aged 50-64 in order to improve or maintain their current health status and save in short- and long-term health care costs before they reach eligibility for Medicare. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
members in the age category of interest, and outside major population centers, will be recruited in the first year of the program to participate. Incentives are being offered to the eligible population to initially enroll in the program, to complete the health risk assessment and associated biometric
screenings, and to be active throughout the study year with online and community programming and health coaching.
The program follows the ICCC approach to population prevention and health improvement which focuses upon achieving zero trend related to health risk and health status for engaged individuals. The unique aspect of the program is that is provided independent of a traditional employer-based wellness
program.
Community Wellness Programs
ICCC provides consultation to communities and community-based groups on strategies to improve population health within their targeted areas of interest. These activities are based on the belief that the wellness of a population occurs through one person and one community at a time. For more information on these services, please contact ICCC through the contact numbers provided on this site.