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-Rock County
WHAT: Living Well with Chronic Conditions
WHEN: Tuesdays, beginning September 19, 2017 from 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

– September 19, 2017
– September 26, 2017
– October 3, 2017
– October 10, 2017
– October 17, 2017
– October 24, 2017

WHERE: 301 Co. Rd. 6, Hills, MN 56138

Registration is required for this event.  Please contact Norma Brands at (507)283-5064 or ace.rock@co.rock.mn.us