How can group visits by healthcare providers help me?

Some health care providers offer group visits for women who are going through the menopause transition. These group meetings can be a helpful supplement to individual office visits, offering more time than traditional appointments for women to get detailed information, ask questions, and share experiences. From the health care provider's perspective, the group visit is a cost-saving method for providing quality information to many women in a limited amount of time.In a group visit, which often is one to three hours long, women can talk with the health care provider, expert guest speaker, or other meeting facilitator about emotional and physical changes that may accompany the menopause transition.

Topics may include physiologic changes; self-care strategies, such as relaxation, paced breathing, physical activity, and good nutrition; herbal products; alternative care treatments; hormone treatment for symptom relief; sexuality; counseling; and healthy aging in general. The facilitator may also provide a list of informational and community resources. Ideally, sessions are structured so that there is adequate time for group discussion and sharing of feelings and personal stories.

Health care providers may conduct the group visit in a comfortable place in a medical clinic. It may be a single session or multiple sessions. Many women find that multiple sessions with the same participants are more useful.

Sometimes, women pay a flat fee to attend each session. In a health maintenance organization, a woman may be charged one office co-payment for the group visit. The group visit borrows in many ways from the model of women's self-help support groups.

These groups are often held in community centers, libraries, or other neighborhood spaces and offer a chance for women to share information and experiences. Some midlife women's groups have multiple sessions, with each session being facilitated by a woman who is an expert in the topic area.

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