Dr. Tanju Yılmazer, Medical Director of the Home Health Unit at Private Izmir Gazi Hospital and Family Medicine Specialist, provided information about "wellness" applications among the original approaches they implement.
What kind of services do you provide as the Home Health Unit of Private Izmir Gazi Hospital?
Primarily, we aim to provide a holistic health service to people in their homes or in their preferred locations. When I say we provide holistic service, I mean that we try to ensure well-being not only physically but also mentally and socially. Within the service we try to provide, there is diagnosis, treatment, and in addition to these, our effort to inform individuals and families so they can transition to a healthy lifestyle.
How can a "healthy lifestyle" be achieved?
A healthy lifestyle starts with conscious will and making correct decisions. One of the important concepts given regarding health is the concept of "wellness." Wellness is a choice and a decision given to move towards good health. It is an active process of being conscious for a healthy and satisfying life and making choices accordingly.
How can you define the concept of wellness?
"Wellness," which we can name as "well-being/goodness" in Turkish, is the sum of efforts made by a person to feel good socially, psychologically, and physically. This concept addresses the human body in its entirety and is defined as an approach that pays attention to healthy nutrition and quality living. Wellness is the bringing closer together of body, brain, and spirit.
What other features regarding wellness can you emphasize?
Wellness is a way of life that you design to find and use your highest potential for well-being/goodness. Wellness is also a process. It is an awareness of development that has no end point. It is a dynamic process for change and transformation. Wellness is accepting to love yourself. Wellness aims for continuous self-improvement and offers change suggestions to increase this development.
As the Home Health Unit of Private Izmir Gazi Hospital, we apply personalized intravenous wellness cures. Intravenous vitamins, amino acids, and cures to strengthen the immune system are applied by our experienced physicians, taking into account individual and person-specific characteristics.