Living Well with Chronic Conditions
Living Well with Chronic Conditions (also called Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, CDSMP) is a six-week interactive workshop. Class leaders share tools to help people better manage ongoing conditions that they live with every day like heart disease, high blood pressure, daily pain, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, COPD, and being overweight, to name a few.
Topics include:
- Techniques to deal with frustration
- Fatigue, pain and isolation
- Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility, and endurance
- Appropriate use of medications
- Communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals
- Nutrition
- How to evaluate new treatments
WHO: A.C.E. of SW Minnesota
WHAT: Living Well with Chronic Conditions
WHEN: Thursdays, beginning May 11, 2017 from 11:30 – 2:00
- May 11, 2017
- May 18, 2017
- May 25, 2017
- June 1, 2017
- June 8, 2017
- June 15, 2017
WHERE: Worthington YMCA, 1501 Collegeway, Worthington, MN
Registration is required for this event. Please contact Joanne Bartosh at 507-295-5262 or ace.nobles@co.nobles.mn.us.
