
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: Prairie Five Community Action
WHAT: Living Well with Chronic Conditions
WHEN: Fridays, beginning August 11, 2017 from 9:00 am – 11:30 am
– August 11, 2017
– August 18, 2017
– August 25, 2017
– September 1, 2017
– September 8, 2017
– September 15, 2017
WHERE: Prairie Five CAC, 719 N 7th St. Suite 302, Montevideo, MN 56265
Registration is required for this event. Please contact Elizabeth Koehl at (320)842-8565 or elizabeth.koehl@prairiefive.com