Mywell Health offers free health and lifestyle planning activities and tools and a resource kit for those who may be facing health challenges or changes — at any stage in life. The users of the Mywell Health website can either save their completed tools and documents in print or digital form, creating their personal planner.
Tips & Links
Mywell Health offers age-appropriate activities and fillable tools to help you engage in discussions and gather information in order to make informed health and lifestyle choices. The resource kit supports your learning by offering definitions, access to research-based websites, educational materials, links to programs and services, videos, and more.
Using the Mywell Health site
Mywell Health has developed an engaging website for people of different ages to help them learn about and cope with their changing health and lifestyle needs. It is based on social purpose concepts to ensure it is free to all users, accessible, and designed to reduce barriers and improve access to information and services. The activities and tools are to guide you in creating your own health and lifestyle planner. Each topic focuses on a specific area of interest, and the activities and tools (fillable PDFs) can help you to learn, access information, and record your learning and wishes.
How to Use the Tools (fillable PDFs)
Mywell Health Inc. does not store your information or data online. We have created downloadable and fillable pdfs that you can save to your electronic device. To edit the pdfs, you need to download and save them on to your preferred electronic device (computer, tablet, or phone).
- Visit a topic of interest which includes a number of activities. Open a topic you are interested in. We suggest you start with My Health Information.
- If you choose to use and complete the Health Profile, click on the green button. Then the download should begin automatically. Once the download is complete you can find it in your ‘downloads’ folder on your device.
- Open the downloaded tool (such as Health Profile) on your device. Your device must open it in a pdf editor (Adobe Reader or Preview). If you do not have either of these, you can download Adobe Reader for free here.
- The first step in every tool is to add your name and date on the first page – this auto populates on every page, so each page has your name on it.
- As you read through the tool, note that the ‘grey’ boxes of the table are fillable. You simply click on the box and start typing. Or if you choose, you can print the pages and hand-write in your answers.
- Complete the activities as you are able and save it. Change the date as items or tools are updated.
General Tips
- Insert your name and the date in every section you are working on. Each person should have their own tools and planner.
- Complete the fillable tools and save after all entries. Change the date as content is updated.
- For each underlined term that is new to you, click on the term and learn more about it in the Resource Kit.
- Scan any documents you collect from other sources and save them under the topic/folder name that it applies too.
Make a Digital Health & Lifestyle Planner
Label a folder “(Your Name) Mywell Health Planner” (e.g., Jane Doe Mywell Health Planner). Inside, create subfolders for each topic (e.g., My Health Information, My People, My Day to Day). Each topic should have its own folder to store additional documents. Save completed tools in the appropriate folders and scan any documents you collect to the relevant topic folder.
Make a Print Health & Lifestyle Planner
Label a ring binder “(Your Name) Mywell Health Planner” (e.g., Jane Doe Mywell Health Planner). Label dividers for each topic (e.g., My Health Information, My People, My Day to Day). Each topic should have its own divider for added documents. Save completed tools in the appropriate folders and scan any documents you collect to the relevant topic divider.
How to Share Your Planner
- Know that the activities and tools you complete is your private information. If you choose, you can share your completed learning with people you trust, health advocates, family members, spouses, and health care professionals.
- We recommend that you save your folders to a cloud storage (Dropbox or Google Drive). This ensures that your files are backed up and easily accessible from any device such as your computer, tablet or phone.
- Learn how to find the information and files on your computer and phone- so you can access them easily when you need them.