Palliative Care primarily focuses on providing comfort and support to terminally ill patients, emphasizing non-curative treatments to ease symptoms. Unlike palliative care, rehabilitation strategies often used in health care in developed countries, aim to prevent rapid declines in health and restore functions to near previous levels. LAFF, focuses on these rehabilitative and restorative aspects.

Modern medical practice follows a symptom-anchored model of health care, where symptoms develop first, followed by diagnosis and treatment. Even with regular doctor visits, little focus is placed on general screening for undiagnosed problems due to a lack of time and the absence of standardized tests that can be easily ordered in a lab or scanner. For example, it is not practical or recommended to get CT scans every six months or an ECHO test of the heart every year for a “healthy” person, even in advanced health care systems like that of the United States. Additionally, doctors are not compensated for these screening evaluations, which often do not require a doctor's expertise to conduct.

This issue is even more pronounced in the Indian health care system, where doctors lack the time and must carefully consider which tests to order since patients pay out-of-pocket for these tests. As a result, in the absence of suspicion of an illness that has not yet manifested, diagnoses often occur later in the disease process, leading to the loss of valuable time for intervention.

While familiar services provide medical care at home for those with health issues, LAFF’s approach is distinct. Our goal is to maintain your mobility and well-being to potentially reduce or eliminate the need for these types of home care services.

No, LAFF does not offer traditional home care services such as nursing or caregiving. While we may recommend vetted agencies in the future, currently we do not provide such services directly.

LAFF is a for-profit organization. We believe that relying solely on charitable contributions is not sustainable long-term, especially in the field of elderly care.

Currently, as part of a pilot study, our services are offered free of charge. This is to assess community needs and the value of our services. If the pilot proves successful, we plan to introduce charges for our services after notifying all participants.

The extensive needs and limited resources make it challenging for government systems to provide adequate solutions. In many developed countries, government-run facilities for the elderly are often the last resort. Given the even scarcer resources in our state, relying on government solutions is impractical.

Several factors, including severe memory loss and care needs beyond what family can provide, influence the decision to move elderly individuals to monitored care facilities. We believe that through early identification of issues, LAFF can help delay the need for such transfers, allowing individuals to remain at home and enjoy a healthy life for as long as possible.

We take privacy seriously and handle all personal information with utmost care. We do not collect any financial data or sensitive personal identifiers. The only information we need is your phone number for contact and identification purposes within our system. We will always seek your permission before sharing your information if necessary.

No there is no membership fee or membership to LAFF. Even when we help you to identify a problem we can only direct you to appropriate service provider as we are not offering any services directly.