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: Catholic Charities
WHAT: Living Well with Chronic Conditions
WHEN: Thursdays, beginning September 28, 2017 from 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

– September 28, 2017
– October 5, 2017
– October 12, 2017
– October 19, 2017
– October 19, 2017
– November 2, 2017

WHERE: Ridgeview Le Sueur Medical Center

Registration is required for this event.  Please contact Mary Cassem at (507)387-5586 or mcassem@ccwinona.org