Healthy Living

Statewide well being community provides loose August workshops

Wholesome Residing for ME invitations grownup Mainers of every age to sign up for the community’s loose August workshops concerned about well being and wellness. The workshops are open to the general public and come with the 2 subjects of managing diabetes and making improvements to health and task ranges.

“Whether or not you’re coping with a prolonged illness comparable to diabetes, or are on the lookout for techniques to make stronger your task ranges, Wholesome Residing for ME can lend a hand. With workshops to be had on-line, in-person and via telephone, we are hoping many Mainers are ready to seek out an possibility that works for them and will make the most of those loose assets for making improvements to their well being and wellness,” stated Jennifer Fortin, coaching and constancy supervisor of Wholesome Residing for ME, in step with a information unlock from the well being community.

• Higher Well being Now with Diabetes is carried out over the telephone. Members will obtain a toolkit within the mail and can paintings with a pace-setter both via themselves or in small teams. Subjects coated come with: ways to care for the indications of diabetes, fatigue, ache, hyper/hypoglycemia, pressure, despair, anger, worry, and frustration; suitable workout for keeping up and making improvements to power and staying power; wholesome consuming; suitable use of medicine; and dealing with healthcare suppliers.

This workshop is being presented via community spouse MaineGeneral’s Peter Alfond Prevention & Wholesome Residing Middle. It runs from Aug. 3 to Sept. 7.

• Bingocize workshop combines a bingo-like recreation with workout and well being training with the purpose of accelerating older adults’ useful health, well being wisdom, and social engagement.

Bingocize is being presented in-person via Wholesome Residing for ME community spouse SeniorsPlus starting on Tuesday, Aug. 9. The workshop can be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays thru Oct. 13 on the Training Middle at SeniorsPlus at 8 Falcon Street in Lewiston.

• Residing Neatly with Diabetes will come with two periods presented in August, one on-line and one in-person. This workshop is designed to lend a hand folks with kind 2 diabetes, the ones with prediabetes, and their helps learn to reside neatly. Subjects coated come with: ways to care for the indications of diabetes, fatigue, ache, hyper/hypoglycemia, pressure, despair, anger, worry, and frustration; suitable workout for keeping up and making improvements to power and staying power; wholesome consuming; suitable use of medicine; and dealing with healthcare suppliers.

The net consultation is being presented via community spouse SeniorsPlus. It’s going to be held from 1 to a few:30 p.m. Thursdays, starting Aug. 11 and working thru Sept. 15.

• The in-person consultation of Residing Neatly with Diabetes is being presented via community spouse Spectrum Generations. It’s going to be held from 1 to a few:30 p.m. Thursdays  starting Aug. 25 and working thru Sept. 29. The workshop can be held on the Cohen Group Middle at 22 The town Farm Street in Hallowell.

For digital workshops, individuals who would not have the essential generation could also be eligible to borrow an iPad from Wholesome Residing for ME with the intention to take part.

Registration is needed for those workshops. For more info and to sign up, touch Wholesome Residing for ME at 800-620-6036 or [email protected].  Registering additionally may also be completed via visiting healthylivingforme.org.

Wholesome Residing for ME additionally welcomes referrals from healthcare suppliers. Its evidence-based programming can lend a hand sufferers organize and save you prerequisites earlier than they turn out to be extra severe or lead to emergency eventualities.

To be told extra about those and different workshops presented via Wholesome Residing for ME, talk over with its site.

 

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