Community Services
Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
Disease Specific Program - Living Well with Diabetes
Three disease specific programs are offered. Living Well with Diabetes and Living Well with Parkinson’s Disease
each comprises six sessions of Stanford CDSMP program plus four disease specific sessions focussing on education and supervised exercise.
The Living Well with Chronic Pain program comprises six sessions.
Session 1
- Differences between acute and chronic conditions
- Using the mind for symptom management
- Introduction to action planning
Session 2
- Dealing with difficult emotions
- Introduction to exercises
- Action planning
Session 3
- Better breathing
- Muscle relaxation
- Fatigue management
- Endurance exercise
- Action planning
Session 4
- Healthy eating
- Distraction
- Advanced directives
- Communication skills
- Problem solving
- Action planning
Session 5
- Action planning
- Use of medication
- Making informed treatment decisions
- Depression management
- Positive self-talk
- Guided imagery
Session 6
- Informing the health care team
- Working with your health care professionals
- Looking back and future planning
Session 7
- Overview of diabetes (by diabetes educator)
- Importance of exercise to diabetic management (by group leader)
- Action planning (by group leader)
Session 8
- Healthy eating (by dietician)
- Tips for dining out for patients (by dietician)
- Outing – lunch (by group leader)
- Action planning
Session 9
- Medication and diabetes (by pharmacist)
- Manage diabetes by better blood sugar and insulin control (by pharmacist)
- Action planning (by group leader)
Session 10
- Foot & eye care of diabetes (by foot & eye care professionals)
- Emotional aspect of diabetes (by social worker)
- Action planning (by group leader)
Fee
$100 for ten sessions per person. Participants are welcome to come with one family member at no extra cost.
For inquiries and registration, please call 416-321-6333 ext. 1110.
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