Living Well With Chronic Conditions
Tue, Jun 15
|Evidence Based Workshop
Area Agency on Aging offers FREE self-management education for people with a variety of chronic health conditions. It aims to build participants’ confidence in managing their health and keep them active and engaged in their lives.
Time & Location
Jun 15, 2021, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Evidence Based Workshop
About the event
AREA AGENCY ON AGING-FIVE COUNTY INVITES YOU TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR CHRONIC DISEASE
FREE self-management education for people with a variety of chronic health conditions.
The Area Agency on Aging invites community members of all ages to attend the upcoming Chronic Disease Self-Management workshop. This free event will provide education and build participants ‘confidence in managing their health and keep them active and engaged in their lives.
CDSMP is for adults with chronic health, ongoing health problems. There is strong evidence from peer-reviewed publications and program evaluations that participation in CDSMP workshops can improve physical and psychosocial outcomes and quality of life for people with chronic health conditions. Benefits include decreased pain and health distress, increased energy and less fatigue, increased physical activity, decreased depression, better communication with physicians, decreased social role limitations, and increased confidence in managing chronic disease.
“The program may be particularly beneficial for people who…