Over 45? Don’t wait until it’s too late. Get your Heart Health Check today

This is an email I received last week from my GP Practice, now we all know heart health is really important and it’s the number 1 cause of death in Australia.

They state the issue from the very beginning, “We know, we know–nobody likes to think about coronary heart disease.” Then they provide the statistic “But did you know that one person in Australia suffers a heart attack or stroke every four minutes?” and then offer a solution “Thankfully, there’s a fast and easy way to discover your risk of coronary heart disease before it’s too late.” And a very simple call to action “Read on to find out more about the Heart Health Check and make your appointment today.” Now at no stage do they say that once the risk is identified, you will need follow a new list of actions, which generally are;

• De-stress

• eat healthier

• drink less, and

• Loose weight

Which together are over 90% of the issues that cause the risk of heart attack or stroke in the first place. What they have done here is simplified the process for you, made the barrier to getting the first step to a healthier heart easier even though I’m sure you are aware that if you did the4 items listed above you would be have a healthy heart.

Let’s for fun change this to Estate Planning

1. There is 100% chance you will decease, no human yet has been able to avoid it and that is not going to change any time soon. So there is 0% risk you will avoid it.

2. It happens to someone every 3 mins and 11 seconds in Australia, so more often than a a heart attack or stroke.

3. During your lifetime you will build an estate and have responsibilities, most likely children that need to be dealt with.

4. There is over a 85% chance you will be incapacitated to carry out your own affairs during your lifetime. There is a whole list of incapacity issues; dementia, Parkinson’s, induced commas etc and I love this there are also toolkits to be able to access this.

5. There are 3 simple documents that can be created to protect your estate and for you to die

   
   

So exactly as if you did the Heart Health Check by having your Estate Plan up to date, you would have peace of mind, feel more in control, less stressed and on your way to a healthier heart, your family and loved ones would be looked after when the unexpected DEATH strikes you!

Just as an FYI, I’ve done mine, my risk is low albeit we have a family history, so I’m on a visitation schedule of every 5 years with a cardiologist.