Vitality 65+

Vitality members 65 years or older can now enjoy exclusive enhancements to the Vitality programme to help them get healthier with age-appropriate activities such as enhanced screening assessments, relevant exercise goals and healthy eating.

Vitality Rewards Mall

Adopting a healthy lifestyle allows you to live a longer, healthier life. You can earn Discovery Miles and get 25% off select Vitality Rewards Mall redemptions of 350 Discovery Miles or more for completing your Vitality Health Check for 65+. You can redeem your rewards in the Vitality Mall.

Vitality 65+ members who have not completed a Vitality Health Check for 65+ will get up to 25% discount on select Vitality Mall redemptions based on your qualifying Discovery products.

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HealthMonitor Device benefit

Vitality 65+ members can save up to 75% on selected health monitoring devices with the HealthMonitor Device benefit at Dis-Chem.

Simply activate your HealthyCare benefit to get up to 25% back. To qualify for a further upfront 25% discount at Dis-Chem, you must complete a Vitality Health Check for 65+.

If you are a Discovery Bank client, you can get up to 75% back on any of these devices with the Vitality Money programme.

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The Apple Watch benefit

Get a fully funded Apple Watch with Vitality Active Rewards. Plus, get your R1,199 activation fee refunded in full.

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Gym discounts

Gym with tailored offerings at Virgin Active or Planet Fitness. You can work out at our friendly gym partners with specialised classes and complementary offerings without having to pay an activation fee.

 
 

Enhanced screening and assessments

Vitality has put together a series of assessments to give you a better understanding of your health and show you the steps to improve it. The assessments include the Vitality Health Check, the Vitality Fitness Assessment as well as The Vitality Age assessments.

 

The Vitality Health Check for 65+

Vitality members 65 years and older have access to the Vitality Health Check for 65+. This enhanced health check is offered within the Vitality Wellness Network for 65+ and helps you understand your health with additional screenings and access to preventive vaccines.

These include blood pressure measurements, blood glucose levels, cholesterol readings and weight assessment, that are adjusted for each age. As a Vitality 65+ member you can also carry out vaccines during your consult, including the flu vaccine, pneumococcal vaccine and the shingles vaccine with the necessary script. Vitality 65+ members can earn up to 22 500 points for screening and prevention during a Vitality Health Check for 65+.

Vitality 65+ members can earn an additional 500 points for completing the clinically verified falls risk assessment.

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The Vitality Functional Assessment

The Vitality Functional Assessment is exclusive to members who are 65 or older. This assessment is designed to give members a personalized understanding of their physical function and falls risk.

The Vitality Functional Assessment is a clinically validated assessment for mobility, flexibility and falls risk to identify and improve the risk of early frailty and disability and recommend exercises to support healthy ageing. This 8-part physical assessment that evaluates certain risks associated with older age.

You can earn 2 500 Vitality points for doing the Vitality Functional Assessment at an accredited biokineticist listed under the Vitality Wellness Network. You can choose to do both the Vitality Fitness Assessment and Vitality Functional Assessment. However, you will only be awarded the base points for one assessment per year, which will be supplemented only by the Vitality Fitness Assessment outcomes-based points. The maximum number of points a member stands to earn in a year from both the Vitality Fitness Assessment and Vitality Functional Assessment remains at 7 500 points.

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