Chronic disease programs help residents prevent, manage, and reduce the long-term impacts of conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.
Program Overview
Disease Prevention: Focuses on lowering the risk of developing conditions through healthy eating, physical activity, and tobacco cessation.
Self-Management Education: Offers workshops like the National Diabetes Prevetion Program, Chronic Disease Self-Management Program and Diabetes Self-Management to teach practical skills for handling symptoms, stress, and medications.
Community Support: Offers easily accessible education, cooking classes, wheelchair scale (available to the community) and referrals.
