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Evidence-Based Wellness Workshops

HOW CAN FTAAAD'S EVIDENCE-BASED WELLNESS CLASSES HELP ME?

To live a healthy life with an ongoing health condition means working at overcoming the physical and emotional problems caused by the disease. FTAAAD's evidence-based workshops will help you live a healthier life. They help participants to:

Find better ways of dealing with pain and fatigue
Discover easy exercises to help improve or maintain strength and energy
Learn the appropriate use of medications
Improve nutrition
Talk effectively with family, friends and health professionals
Learn how to deal with stress and relax
Feel better about life

This suite of workshops will give you tips and ideas to make your life easier. Originally designed by Stanford University, they are offered at hundreds of locations throughout the United States, as well as in other countries around the world. They have helped people feel better about themselves and their problems. Because of these workshops, people gain more physical capabilities and pleasure from life. These workshops will help you:

Understand the problems caused by your condition
Manage your health condition
Learn activities that will help you have better general health

The Health Aging workshops are fun workshops with a lot of activities to do in groups. You will learn:

How to solve problems
How to deal with emotions
How to breathe better
How to relax
How to deal with pain and fatigue
How to have healthy eating habits
How to communicate with others
How to use medications correctly
How to manage depression
How to work with your health care team

The group-based workshops are conducted in two-and-a-half hour sessions, once a week for six weeks, in community settings such as senior centers, churches, health resource centers and senior housing. Workshops are facilitated by two trained peer leaders, one or both of whom have at least one chronic disease themselves.