Healthy Living for ME Workshops
Living Well with Diabetes
About the workshop
This six-week class meets once a week for two hours and thirty minutes. Each class includes a new topic on how to help participants with pre-diabetes manage their health. This class is a combination of presentations, discussion, and activities with others who have similar experiences to you. You will learn:
- Techniques to deal with symptoms of diabetes, including fatigue, pain, hyper/hypoglycemia, stress, depression, anger, fear and frustration
- Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength and endurance
- Healthy eating
- Use of medication
- How to better work with healthcare providers
A telephone version of the class is also available.
Living Well With Diabetes, also known as Diabetes Self-Management Program and is supported by the American Diabetes Association.
Benefits of the workshop
- Reduce the risk of medical complications
- Improve your health and sense of well-being
- Learn how to make weekly action plans
- Share experiences with others and help each other problem solve
- Become more involved in your community with your neighbors
More information about this program’s research and evaluation can be found here.
Who should take the workshop
This class is for anyone with a diagnosis of pre-diabetes, or diabetes, and would like to learn tips for a healthy lifestyle. It is particularly suited for people who:
- Are newly diagnosed with diabetes
- Have poor blood sugar control
- Have greater than 7 percent A1c
- Have experienced recent complications that required hospital or emergency room treatment
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