Education that supports your health and your life

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1 Aberta Heathy Living Program Education that supports your heath and your ife Centra Zone Fa 2017 Workshop Guide The Aberta Heathy Living Program (AHLP) offers free workshops and one-on-one sessions to hep you better manage chronic conditions Chronic Disease Management

2 Education empowers you You can ive heathier by earning what changes can hep you fee better and more confident about managing chronic conditions. It coud be sma changes, such as watching what and how much you eat or adding physica activity to your day. Or it coud be big changes that invove understanding your emotions and how they can affect your heath. The AHLP heps you discover changes big or sma that wi hep you ive heathier and earn to confidenty manage your heath. AHLP workshops are for Abertans interested in earning how to manage chronic conditions. Famiy, friends and caregivers are aso wecome to attend. We recommend participants are: Capabe of participating in group settings Abe to understand basic Engish At east 18 years of age or oder. Learn to ive heathier Workshops in this guide are designed to hep you earn how to manage chronic conditions and ive heathier. Workshops vary by community, but in genera cover: Disease-specific education for conditions such as diabetes, obesity, high bood pressure and more Genera heath topics such as nutrition, reducing stress and seeping we Supervised exercise programs. Workshops are ed by heathcare professionas incuding heath educators, registered dietitians, registered nurses and exercise speciaists. Find out which workshops may be for you using our navigation too on page 14. Workshop times and ocations vary by community and are subject to change. For more information and to register ca Aberta Heathy Living Program Centra Zone

3 Better Choices, Better Heath 6 Anyone iving with: Diabetes Chronic pain Heart disease Arthritis Breathing concerns Depression/anxiety Weight management Cancer HIV Fibromyagia Simiar chronic heath conditions. 2½ hours each Nutrition, physica activity and stress affect your ife, especiay when you re iving with ongoing heath concerns. These workshops wi hep you discover changes and strategies to hep you ive heathier.* Topics incude: Overcoming the physica and emotiona chaenges of iving with chronic conditions Managing pain, fatigue and stress Making positive nutrition and active iving choices Setting persona goas and acting on your pans. *This education is originay based on Stanford University s Chronic Disease Sef-Management Program. Avaiabe onine You can join this workshop from any computer with an Internet connection, incuding dia-up. Easy-to-foow interactive sessions are posted weeky for six weeks and require about 2-2½ hours a week at your convenience. You can choose to remain anonymous. To register, visit betterchoicesbetterheath.ca/onine. Workshops are free. To register, ca ahs.ca/cdmcentrazone Fa

4 Craving Change 3 2½ hours each Anyone who wants hep improving their eating habits. What you eat, how you eat and how much you eat are a part of your eating habits. Shaping them begins with understanding your triggers and reationships with food. In these workshops, you earn how you can form better eating habits that ast a ifetime. Topics incude: Food triggers, such as emotions, situations, events and cravings Strategies for ong-term, heathy eating habits How to form a heathy reationship with food. Diabetes: The Basics Two options avaiabe: 4 Or 2 Anyone at risk of deveoping diabetes Anyone diagnosed with pre-diabetes or Type 2 diabetes. 2½ hours each One 6½-hour session (pease bring a unch) and one 2½-hour session Take the test To determine your risk of deveoping diabetes, take this fast and easy onine test at take2minutes.ca. Nutrition, physica activity and stress can affect diabetes management. These workshops wi hep you earn about diabetes and effective strategies that hep manage it. Topics incude: What diabetes is The importance of monitoring bood sugar and other tests Basic types of diabetes medications and how they work How foods affect bood sugar How to read food abes and mea pan Tips for traveing when you are sick The benefits of keeping active Why and how to take care of your feet. 4 Aberta Heathy Living Program Centra Zone Workshop times and ocations vary by community. For more information, ca

5 Eating Away From Home and During Specia Occasions 1 2½ hours Anyone ooking for tips and strategies to prevent overeating whie away from home or during specia occasions. Food is often centra to hoidays, parties and specia occasions. It aso tends to be higher in caories, fat or sugar, and can ead to overeating and weight gain. In this workshop, faciitated by a registered dietitian, you wi earn how these occasions can affect what you eat and how much you eat. You eave with strategies to hep prevent overeating. Topics incude: How buffets, parties, vacation and hoiday eating can affect how much you eat Strategies to reduce overeating when you re away from home and during specia occasions. Getting Started: Panning for Success 1 2½ hours Anyone who woud ike to earn more about the benefits of maintaining a heathy weight and how to buid a pan to reach weight-oss goas. Panning ahead and setting reaistic heath and weight-oss goas can hep you create asting change. In this workshop, you wi earn what obesity is and how it may be affecting your ife. How simpe toos such as panning ahead, recording what you eat and how you fee can hep you ose weight and stay heathy. Topics incude: What obesity is, what causes it and treatment options such as bariatric surgery How obesity affects your ife and heath How to record what you eat, how active you are and how you fee emotionay. Workshops are free. To register, ca ahs.ca/cdmcentrazone Fa

6 Heart Wise: Managing Choestero and Bood Pressure 1 3 hours Anyone with high bood pressure and/or choestero and woud ike to earn how to ower them. Maintaining a heathy bood pressure and choestero eve reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney faiure and many other inesses. In this workshop, offered in coaboration with AHS Nutrition Services, you wi earn what affects your bood pressure and choestero eve and what you can do to manage them. Topics incude: What bood pressure and choestero are Life and nutrition choices that may affect them How to create a pan to improve your eves. Take the test Find out your risk of heart disease with MyHeath Aberta s onine quiz at I Know I Shoud Eat Heathy, But How? 1 2½ hours Anyone who woud ike to earn how to form heathy eating habits. Eating heathy foods can reduce the risk of obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, joint pain and many other conditions. When you pan and prepare meas ahead, you re more ikey to eat nutritious foods, deveop new, heathy habits and save money. In this workshop, taught by a registered dietitian, you wi earn tips and strategies for panning and preparing food that wi hep you eat heathier. Topics incude: How to put your nutrition knowedge into practice. The 4 Ps: Pan, Purchase, Prepare and Pack. 6 Aberta Heathy Living Program Centra Zone Workshop times and ocations vary by community. For more information, ca

7 Lifestye Change: A Tookit for Success 1 2½ hours Anyone who woud ike to earn what heathy ifestye changes ook ike and how to keep them. Habits can infuence the choices you make when it comes to your heath. Learning new ways of thinking and forming new habits can hep maintain heathy ifestye changes such as eating heathier or getting exercise. In this workshop you wi earn what heathy ifestye changes ook ike and strategies to hep you maintain them. Topics incude: How to make and keep heathy ifestye changes Strategies such as prioritizing, journaing, probem-soving, thinking skis and goa-setting. Managing Stress: Effectivey Reduce and Manage the Stress in your Life 2 2½ hours each Anyone who fees stress and woud ike to earn how to reduce or prevent it. Many things can cause stress. It can stem from your job, heath, a conficts in beief, or a major ife change. Learning how to reduce or prevent stress can hep you manage chronic conditions, improve menta heath and reduce your risk of deveoping a range of disorders such as hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, obesity and irritabe bowe syndrome. In this workshop you wi earn more about stress, how to manage it and aso how to practise mindfu eating. Topics incude: What stress is What causes stress and how it can affect your ife Mindfu eating. Workshops are free. To register, ca ahs.ca/cdmcentrazone Fa

8 Moving Matters: Incuding Physica Activity in your Day 1 2½ hours Anyone ooking to earn more about physica activity and how to incude it in their day. Physica activity is any activity that s part of your daiy ife. It can incude simpe things ike ceaning, shoveing snow, taking the stairs and carrying groceries. Incuding more physica activity in your day can hep you maintain a heathy weight and better manage chronic conditions. In this workshop you wi earn about physica activity and how to incude it in your day. Topics incude: Benefits and barriers to getting active Tips on how to increase your physica activity How to set persona activity goas. How much activity do I need? Aduts need 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity each week and kids need 60 minutes or more per day. Moderate activity means your breathing and heart rate are higher than norma and you may be sweating. Ready for Change 1 1½ hours Anyone who woud ike to earn more about making heathy ifestye choices to improve their heath. Living heathier starts with making positive, informed choices when it comes to things such as nutrition and physica activity. In this workshop, you wi earn how to make changes to improve your heath. Topics incude: Identifying heathy ife choices Steps to making heathy ife choices Ways to make changes that wi work for you Sma tips for making big changes. 8 Aberta Heathy Living Program Centra Zone Workshop times and ocations vary by community. For more information, ca

9 Respiratory Education 9 1 hour each Anyone who has been diagnosed with a chronic ung condition, such as Chronic Obstructive Pumonary Disease (COPD). COPD is caused by damage to the ungs from smoking and ong-term exposure to chemica fumes, dust or air poution. In this workshop you wi earn more about COPD, what you can do to prevent more damage and tips to hep you breathe easier. Topics incude: What is COPD Factors that affect COPD Hepfu breathing techniques Common respiratory medications and devices. Seep We 1 1½ hours Anyone who wants to seep better. Quaity seep refreshes the body and mind. It aso heps us make better ife choices and contro food cravings. In this workshop, discover what quaity seep means, how it reates to your heath and tips for better seep. Topics incude: The ink between quaity seep and good heath Norma and abnorma seep patterns Understanding your seep habits Tips to hep you seep better. Workshops are free. To register, ca ahs.ca/cdmcentrazone Fa

10 Stress Less 1 1-1½ hours Anyone who fees stress and is ooking for ways to reduce or prevent it. Stress can take many forms. Some signs incude feeing overwhemed, difficuty concentrating, changes in appetite, disrupted seep, chest pain, headaches and more. Some stress is good for you, but chronic, ongoing stress is not. In this workshop, you wi earn how to manage stress to improve menta and physica heath and reduce your risk of deveoping a range of disorders such as hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, obesity and irritabe bowe syndrome. Topics incude: Different eves of stress How it affects your body Tips on how to reduce or prevent it. Aberta Heathy Living Program 10 Centra Zone Workshop times and ocations vary by community. For more information, ca

11 Supervised Exercise Information Session 1 1 hour Anyone ooking to earn more about the Supervised Exercise Program and what to expect. Learning what to expect and asking questions can hep you fee more comfortabe with exercising. In this workshop you wi meet the program s exercise speciaist, be abe to ask questions and decide if the program is right for you. Supervised Exercise Program vary by community. Ca for more information. 1-1½ hours For individuas with one or more chronic conditions interested in earning how to exercise safey and experience the heath benefits. Note: Find out if this program is for you by attending the information session isted above. Exercise can hep you manage chronic conditions and stay heathy. Learning to do it safey wi hep you prevent injury and stay on track for iving heathy. In this program you wi: Learn to use equipment safey in a community gym Learn how to sef-monitor and stay safe whie exercising Improve your strength, fexibiity and endurance Have a one-on-one initia assessment (schedued 1-2 weeks prior to start of the program) Participate in exercise casses under the guidance of an exercise speciaist Have an assessment after competing the program. Workshops are free. To register, ca ahs.ca/cdmcentrazone Fa

12 The Five Top Tips to Reduce Caories 1 2½ hours Anyone who woud ike to earn how to safey reduce their caorie intake and maintain a heathy weight. The amount of caories you need in a day depends on how active you are, your gender and aso your age. Eating or drinking more caories than you need can ead to weight gain and obesity. In this workshop, taught by a registered dietitian, you wi earn ways to safey reduce your caorie intake and maintain a heathy weight. Topics incude: Five ways to safey ower your caorie intake An opportunity to practise strategies in the workshop. Caorie-burning tracker Find out how many caories you burn by doing various activities with MyHeathAberta s interactive too at The Truth About What Works in Weight Management 1 2½ hours Anyone ooking to earn more about how to achieve a heathy weight. Maintaining a heathy weight is good for your heath. It reduces your risk of heart disease, stroke, high bood pressure, coon cancer, breast cancer, Type 2 diabetes, ga badder disease, joint pain and osteoarthritis. In this workshop you wi earn what foods to eat and how much to eat to hep you safey ower your caorie intake and maintain a heathy weight. This workshop is faciitated by a registered dietitian. Topics incude: How to evauate what you are eating and earn strategies that can hep reduce caories How mea patterns, food choices and portion size affect caorie intake Which foods can hep you manage your weight. Aberta Heathy Living Program 12 Centra Zone Workshop times and ocations vary by community. For more information, ca

13 Time to Move 1 1-1½ hours Anyone who woud ike to earn more about being active. Physica activity and exercise benefit the mind and body and can hep you manage chronic conditions. In this workshop you wi earn what active iving and exercise are and how to incude them in your ife. Topics incude: The difference between active iving and exercise How reguar exercise benefits your heath How to incude physica activity in your ife Hands-on activity. Workshops are free. To register, ca ahs.ca/cdmcentrazone Fa

14 Find the right workshop This too wi hep you find other workshops in this guide based on your interests or chronic conditions. For more information, check out the workshop descriptions. WORKSHOP CHRONIC PAIN DIABETES HEART HEALTH HEALTHY LIVING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BREATHING CONCERNS WEIGHT MGMT STRESS Better Choices, Better Heath Craving Change Diabetes the Basics Eating Away From Home and During Specia Occasions Getting Started: Panning for Success Heart Wise: Managing Choestero and Bood Pressure I Know I Shoud Eat Heathy, But How? Lifestye Change: A Tookit For Success Minding Stress: Effectivey Reduce and Manage the Stress in Your Life Moving Matters: Incuding Physica Activity in Your Day Ready For Change Respiratory Education Seep We Stress Less Supervised Exercise The Five Top Tips to Reduce Caories The Truth About What Works in Weight Management Time to Move Aberta Heathy Living Program 14 Centra Zone Workshop times and ocations vary by community. For more information, ca

15 Centra Zone Rocky Mountain House Drayton Vaey Rimbey Sundre Wetaskiwin Ods Lacombe Red Deer Innisfai Ponoka Three His Lamont Tofied Camrose Daysand Bashaw Stetter Drumheer Two His Vegrevie Viking Castor Hanna Vermiion Wainwright Coronation Loydminster Provost Workshops are free. To register, ca ahs.ca/cdmcentrazone Fa

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