About us
Whether you want to live abroad or travel overseas for medical treatments, Traveling 4 Health & Retirement can help you find American-style medical and lifestyle resources catering to Americans and Canadians.
Who we are
Traveling4Health&Retirement (THR) is a social media community for people who love traveling and are looking to explore better solutions globally for their health and lifestyle. We are an unbiased consumer reporting business model dedicated to introducing Western consumers to those physicians and medical services worldwide catering to American and Canadian medical tourists, expatriates, travelers, and retirees.
Although we are a for-profit consumer reporting website, we do not benefit from the free and unrestricted flow of informaiton exchanged by patients and doctors.
Members and providers can communicate directly and privately. We provide members with free tools to research trusted medical services and providers globally. Any mention of a medical provider in patient-generated reviews, blogs or feature articles is noted on the provider’s user-profile. In this way, members gain insights about a provider’s reputation through sources that can be verified and contacted. Members can initiate conversations with other members without disclosing personal contact information. Users have control of their privacy settings.
Revenue Model: Membership is free to all. Our free service is made possible through the support of sponsors. We are funded from the sales of educational materials such as consumer guides to traveling for treatment and retiring abroad, and for-fee educational and patient advocacy services.
Our book How To Plan A Successful Medical Tourism Trip is the only consumer guide published with 12 leading experts on medical and dental tourism.
Traveling4Health&Retirement is dedicated to evaluating retirement destination locations outside the United States. We provide a place where Baby Boomers can connect with retirees who are living in retirement destinations abroad.
Our next book Overseas Retirement – Places Rated and Reviewed will be the first comprehensive guide to the South and Central American and Caribbean top retirement destination locations providing an index of criteria upon which to compare similarly ranked retirement places in the same geographic region and in the U.S.
What we Do
On the Health front - We provide a space where members can find those medical and health care providers trusted by the membership, rate providers based on customer satisfaction, and exchange information with other members and industry experts.
On the Lifestyle/Retirement front - We provide a space where members can find those retirement destination locations trusted by the membership, rate retirement places based on customer satisfaction, and exchange information with other members and industry experts.
Traveling4Health&Retirement connects people in an online, doctors'-waiting-room environment where community members exchange information in unfiltered conversations based on personal experience.
Members of the Traveling4Health Community benefit from a level of comfort and patient advocacy that comes from belonging to an organization where medical and lifestyle providers are rewarded for treating our members well.
The Six Big Goals of Traveling4 Health & Retirement
1) Be the trusted source of unbiased information about medical travel and retirement overseas,
2) Promote only the services of providers who have been recommended by their patients (or clients),
3) Facilitate private and unfiltered patient-to-patient and patient-to-provider discussions,
4) Grow and expand our services,
5) Be Financially Sound, and
6) Live the Traveling4 Health & Retirement Mission
About The Founder
My name is Ilene Little, and I started Traveling 4 Health & Retirement because I couldn’t find a comprehensive website where I could find and communicate directly with people from my own country and culture who were taking advantage of traveling for treatment or who could share how they were handling their health and wellness needs while residing abroad.
I have so many fond memories of traveling and working in different parts of the world that it wetted my appetite for developing personal and business relationships worldwide. I wanted to design my own lifestyle and I didn’t want to limit my options with national borders.
As a former newspaper reporter I began to build a network of contacts and resources for the benefit of all, using my interview skills to get to know and build a track record of trust with people whose experiences and expertise I found intriguing.
It’s this priceless process of finding people of interest and communicating with them that I wish to share through our community website.
I wrote the definitive guide for the self-pay medical tourist, How to Plan a Successful Medical Tourism Trip. In the process, I met some of the most personable and highly respected and skilled physicians and medical service providers in the world.
These fine doctors and subject experts introduced me to the world of global health care and the many quality centers of medical excellence that are available to support the lifestyles of Americans and Canadians traveling for medical treatment or retiring abroad.
