Beyond Academics: A Focus on Campus Wellbeing
Navigating the shift to college life can be quite disruptive, impacting your daughter's routine and medical care access. The distance from home and trusted healthcare professionals further complicates matters. Here's are some issues to keep a watchful eye on:
Lack of Continuity: Many students attend college in a different state, requiring shifts in healthcare providers due to licensure requirements issues. This often leads to gaps in understanding a patient’s medical history. Furthermore, because of the high volume of patients, university medical centers typically allocate students to the earliest available appointments, often leading to a different doctor for each visit. The same goes for changes in insurance coverage which can disrupt access to care and medication. Consistency in one’s healthcare provider is crucial to mitigating risk.
Accessing Care: Even with an array of health resources specifically geared towards women's health on campuses, many colleges have long waitlists that make receiving medical care difficult. This can make prescriptions and individualized, attentive care hard to come by, leading to untreated conditions due to missed appointments.
Mental Health Matters: College is a transformative period in life that although fun, can also be emotionally draining. Juggling coursework, social dynamics, and personal growth can take a toll on mental health. Levels of anxiety and depression have risen significantly among college students in the past couple of years. Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, are especially prevalent in college-age women. It's essential to break the stigma around mental health and prioritize seeking the help of campus counselors when needed.
A healthcare advisor can help quarterback care while your daughter is away at school, bringing together your trusted physicians and therapists with campus doctors and counselors to help mitigate risk and ensure wellbeing for the college years.
We help individuals and families make smarter healthcare choices to mitigate risk. With nearly 100 years of combined patient care experience, our multidisciplinary team provides top-tier guidance and support, covering physical and behavioral health, addiction treatment, and insurance.
We offer consultative and advisory services in 50-hour retainers for family offices and 12-hour retainers for individuals and families. To learn more, contact us at insights@wellworthadvisors.com or (646) 883-9717.