Living Healthy
What is Living Healthy?
Living Healthy is a six-week workshop series that empowers older adults and their caregivers to take charge of chronic conditions, such as arthritis, heart disease, osteoporosis, or diabetes by discovering ways to better manage ongoing needs. Living Healthy was developed and evaluated by the Patient Education Research Center at Stanford University.
For more information on program evaluation results please go to: http://patienteducation.stanford.edu/programs/cdsmp.html .
How is Living Healthy different from existing condition-specific programs?
The Living Healthy workshop series is meant to enhance, not replace, existing programs that focus on specific chronic conditions. People with ongoing health conditions often share similar symptoms, such as fatigue, stress, pain, and depression, and thus can use similar techniques to manage and improve many of these symptoms. Living Healthy provides participants with tools to help build confidence in their ability to better manage their health and break the symptom cycle commonly experienced by those with ongoing health conditions.
Workshops are peer led by pairs of volunteers, at least one of whom has personal experience with managing chronic diseases, and are held in community-based settings, such as senior centers, libraries, YMCAs, and places of worship.
Living Healthy is the local implementation of the Chronic Disease Self Management Program developed by the Stanford Education Research Center. For more information please go to: http://patienteducation.stanford.edu/programs/cdsmp.html
