YWCA GREATER NEWBURYPORT SEMINARs/workshops

My Life, My Health Workshop
Healthy Aging
Cost: FREE
Date: April 25 - May 30, 2012
Time: 1:00-3:30 p.m.
Place: YWCA Greater Newburyport
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Chronic disease, pain and discomfort can limit many of the activities you enjoy! Manage your chronic disease with group support, learn to eat well, control your pain, deal with fatigue and frustration, handle stress and relax, increase your energy level, solve problems and meet personal goals, communicate effectively with your health care providers. Join the My Life My Health workshop and start to live again! Next session will meet at the YWCA Greater Newburyport Wednesday, starting September 14th – October 19, 1PM – 3:30 PM. Sign up today for this FREE 6 week workshop sponsored by the Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley, Inc. For information or to register call Connie – 978-465-9922 Ext 44. Workshop limited to 15 participants.

Free Caregiver Class Open to All: Powerful Tools for Caregivers
Started Monday 3/7; 6:00 – 7:30pm
Place: YWCA Greater Newburyport

Are you caring for someone with a chronic illness such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease or stroke? Being a caregiver can be physically, emotionally and financially stressful. The Powerful Tools for Caregivers program is a six week program designed to help family caregivers develop new skills that will improve their lives and enable them to be happy, healthy caregivers for as long as possible.

Topics presented include:

• identifying and reducing stress
• communicating your feelings, needs and concerns
• communicating in challenging situations
• learning from your emotions
• mastering care giving decisions.

Through this program, you will learn how to balance care giving with other responsibilities—including your responsibilities to yourself! Class participants report that following the program, they experience fewer feelings of anger, guilt and depression and feel increased confidence in coping with the demands of care giving.

Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley joins with YWCA Greater Newburyport to offer these free six- week programs.

13 Market Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950 | Phone: 978-465-9922 | Fax: 978-465-1076