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-Nobles County
WHAT: Living Well with Chronic Conditions
WHEN: Tuesdays, beginning October 3, 2017 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

– October 3, 2017
– October 10, 2017
– October 17, 2017
– October 24, 2017
– October 31, 2017
– November 7, 2017

WHERE: American Lutheran Church, 915 Winifred St., Worthington, MN 56187

Registration is required for this event.  Please contact Joanne Bartosh at (507)295-5262 or ace.nobles@co.nobles.mn.us