The care model

Five connected areas. One woman. One coordinated plan.

StrongHer Care is designed for the clinical reality of midlife: symptoms overlap, risks change, and the right answer is rarely found inside one narrow specialty lane.

Menopause & Midlife

Care begins with the woman’s goals, symptoms, health history, risk profile, and preferences, not with a single treatment philosophy.

  • Perimenopause and menopause symptom assessment
  • Hormonal and nonhormonal treatment options
  • Premature ovarian insufficiency, early menopause, and surgical menopause
  • Sleep, mood, vasomotor, cognitive, and quality-of-life concerns
  • Coordination of cardiovascular, metabolic, and preventive care

Pelvic, Vulvovaginal & Urinary Health

Midlife symptoms may cross traditional specialty boundaries. The pathway keeps the pelvic floor, urinary tract, vulva, vagina, and sexual function in the same clinical picture.

  • Genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM)
  • Recurrent urinary tract infections
  • Vulvar and vaginal symptoms
  • Painful intercourse and pelvic pain
  • Urinary symptoms, prolapse, and pelvic-floor dysfunction
  • Pelvic-floor physical therapy and specialty referral when appropriate

Sexual Health

Sexual health is addressed as health care, without judgment and without reducing every concern to hormones.

  • Desire, arousal, orgasm, and pain concerns
  • Medication and medical contributors
  • Pelvic-floor and genitourinary contributors
  • Evidence-based pharmacologic options when appropriate
  • Referral pathways for counseling, therapy, and additional specialty care

Cancer-Survivorship Support

Women affected by cancer deserve symptom relief and honest risk discussions, even when systemic hormone therapy is not an option.

  • Nonhormonal management of menopause symptoms
  • GSM, urinary, and sexual-health care
  • Bone-loss risk related to ovarian suppression or endocrine therapy
  • Individualized shared decision-making with oncology when needed
  • Clear distinction between survivorship symptom care and oncologic surveillance

Bone Health

Bone health is not a separate chapter of midlife care. It is part of the same hormonal, medical, functional, and survivorship story.

  • DXA interpretation and fracture-risk assessment
  • Evaluation for secondary causes when indicated
  • Nutrition, vitamin D, exercise, strength, balance, and fall-risk counseling
  • Oral, injectable, and infusion treatment selection when appropriate
  • Coordinated zoledronic acid and denosumab pathways
  • Longitudinal monitoring and safe transition planning
What integrated does not mean: one clinician doing everything. It means one accountable pathway that knows when to treat, when to coordinate, and when to bring in another specialist.

Evidence anchors

This model is intended to operate through current clinical guidance, health-system policy, documented shared decision-making, and defined escalation pathways. Key anchors include the Endocrine Society osteoporosis guideline, the Menopause Society hormone-therapy position statement, and multidisciplinary guidance for genitourinary syndrome of menopause.