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: Mondays, beginning September 11, 2017 from 9:30 am – 11:30 am

*Informational Meeting September 7, 2017 11:00 am

– September 11, 2017
– September 18, 2017
– September 25, 2017
– October 2, 2017
– October 9, 2017
– October 16, 2017

WHERE: Waseca Area Senior Citizens Center, 308 State St N, Waseca, MN 56093

Registration is required for this event.  Please contact Mary Cassem at (507)458-9687 or mcassem@ccwinona.org