Griffin Hospital Offers Help with Managing Health Conditions

DERBY - Griffin Hospital will host a free six-week workshop starting March 22 to help individuals suffering from health conditions take back control of their lives.

 

The Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop provides health information and strategies to help those with health conditions like pain, anxiety, diabetes, depression, heart disease, and arthritis increase their energy and take control of their health.

 

Along with clinical care, participants will learn ways to cope with difficult emotions, depression, and stress/anxiety, reduce pain, improve mobility, increase energy, increase physical activity, eat healthier, use medications appropriately, and solve everyday problems and communicate effectively with family and health care providers.

 

The workshop will be held from 3:30-6 p.m. on Wednesdays starting March 22 at the hospital, 130 Division Street, Derby.

 

The Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop is sponsored by the Connecticut Dept. of Social Services Aging Services Division, Connecticut Dept. of Public Health and Griffin Hospital.

 

To register, call Esther Jones at Griffin Hospital’s Community Outreach and Valley Parish Nurse Program at 203-732-1523.

(This is a press release from Griffin Hospital)

Griffin Hospital Offers Help with Controlling Chronic Conditions

DERBY - Griffin Hospital will host a free six-week workshop starting July 11 to help individuals diagnosed from chronic conditions take back control of their lives.

 

The Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop provides health information and strategies to help those with chronic conditions like diabetes, depression, heart disease, arthritis, and pain and anxiety increase their energy and take control of their health.

 

Along with clinical care, participants will learn ways to cope with difficult emotions, depression, and stress/anxiety, reduce pain, improve mobility, increase energy, increase physical activity, eat healthier, use medications appropriately, and solve everyday problems and communicate effectively with family and health care providers.

 

The workshop will be held from 1-3:30 p.m. on Mondays from July 11 to Aug. 15 at the hospital, 130 Division Street, Derby.

 

The Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop is sponsored by the Connecticut Dept. of Social Services Aging Services Division, Connecticut Dept. of Public Health and Griffin Hospital.

 

To register, call Esther Jones at Griffin Hospital’s Community Outreach and Valley Parish Nurse Program at 203-732-1523.

 

(This is a press release from Griffin Hospital)

 

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Griffin Hospital Offers Help with Controlling Chronic Conditions

DERBY-  Griffin Hospital will host a free six-week workshop to help individuals diagnosed from chronic conditions take back control of their lives.

 

The Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop provides health information and strategies to help those with chronic conditions like diabetes, depression, heart disease, arthritis, and pain and anxiety increase their energy and take control of their health. The workshop will be held from 1-3:30 p.m. on Thursdays from Feb. 4 to March 10 at the hospital, 130 Division Street, Derby.

 

The Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop is sponsored by the Connecticut Dept. of Social Services Aging Services Division, Connecticut Dept. of Public Health and Griffin Hospital.

 

To register, call Esther Jones at Griffin Hospital’s Community Outreach and Valley Parish Nurse Program at 203-732-1523.

 

(This is a press release from Griffin Hospital)

 

Griffin in Derby to host workshops about chronic conditions

DERBY - A free workshop series at Griffin Hospital aims to help individuals with an ongoing health conditions or those caring for a loved one with an ongoing health condition get their lives back.

Sponsored by the Connecticut Department of Social Services Aging Services Division, Connecticut Department of Public Health and Griffin Hospital, the Live Well Workshop will be held July 31, Aug. 7, 16, 21, 28, and Sept. 4 from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the hospital, 130 Division St.

The workshops will provide health information and strategies to help those with chronic conditions like diabetes, depression, heart disease, arthritis, pain and anxiety increase their energy and take control of their health issue.

To register for this self-management workshop, call Daun Barrett, 203-732-7584.

This is a press release from Griffin Hospital.

Griffin in Derby to offer workshop on chronic conditions

DERBY - A free workshop series at Griffin Hospital aims to help individuals with an ongoing health conditions, or those caring for a loved one with an ongoing health condition, get their lives back.

In coordination with the Connecticut Department of Social Services Aging Services Division and Connecticut Department of Public Health, Griffin Hospital is offering the Live Well Workshop, a free, six-week program.

It provides health information and strategies to help those with chronic conditions like diabetes, depression, heart disease, arthritis, pain, and anxiety increase their energy and take control of their health issue.

For dates and to register for this self-management workshop, call Daun Barrett, 203-732-7584.

This is a press release from Griffin Hospital.