LifePath’s Healthy Living Summer 2022 Workshops
These evidence-based workshops provide information and practical skills for people living with long-term health conditions to better manage our health and improve the quality of our lives. Live Video Conference Workshops offer the full interactive curriculum but on a Zoom platform with books and handouts mailed to your home and technical support for those new to video conferencing. Telephone Toolkit Workshops offer weekly phone calls with 4 or 5 others to learn and practice new skills and talk about weekly goals with books, tip sheets, and handouts mailed to your home.
◻ Living Well with Long-Term Health Conditions (Live Video Conference): Topics include healthy eating, relaxation techniques, communicating, goal-setting, problem solving, and more. Live Video Conference Workshop: Fridays, June 10-July 29 (no class July 1), 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
◻ A Matter of Balance–Managing Concerns About Falls (In-Person at Elm Terrace, 1 Elm Terrace, Greenfield, MA): Teaches practical strategies to reduce the fear of falling and explores medical, behavioral, and environmental risk factors for falls, stressing the importance of developing an exercise plan. Mondays, June 6-August 1 (no class July 4), 1:00-3:00 p.m.
◻ Living Well with Persistent Pain (Live Video Conference): Helps participants assume an active role in managing problems specific to chronic pain, including fatigue, frustration, and poor sleep. Topics include appropriate exercise for improving strength, flexibility, and endurance; pain management techniques; goal-setting; and problem solving. Wednesdays, June 8-July 20, 1:00-3:30
◻ Living Well with Diabetes (Live Video Conference and Telephone Toolkit Workshops): Teaches the basics of balancing medication, diet and exercise, techniques to deal with hyper/hypoglycemia, meal planning, stress reduction, goal setting, problem solving, and more for people living with diabetes or their caregivers. Video Conference Workshop: Tuesdays, July 5-Aug 16, 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Telephone Toolkit Workshop: Thursdays, June 9-July 23, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
For more information or to register, contact Andi Waisman, Healthy Living Program Manager, at 413-773-5555 x2297 or 978-544-2259 x2297, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..