Our Programs
Better Choices, Better Health: Chronic Conditions
This program is designed to help participants deal with chronic conditions. Topics include: techniques to deal with frustration, fatigue, pain, and isolation, appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility, and endurance, appropriate use of medications, communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals, nutrition, and how to evaluate new treatments.
Better Choices, Better Health: Chronic Pain
This class is designed for people who have a diagnosis of chronic pain and their caregivers, offering strategies for dealing with their symptoms. Topics include: techniques to deal with frustration, fatigue, isolation, and poor sleep, appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, appropriate use of medications, communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals.
Better Choices, Better Health: Diabetes
While there is no cure for diabetes, knowledge about diabetes and self-management skills can improve the experience of symptoms and overall quality of life for those living with diabetes. Lifestyle changes can help reduce the likeliness of developing type 2 diabetes among people with pre-diabetes.
Fit & Strong!
Fit & Strong! is an exercise/behavior change program for older adults or those with lower extremity osteoarthritis. This 12-week program includes 60 minutes of exercise and 30 minutes of group discussion/health education.
Powerful Tools for Caregivers
Powerful Tools for Caregivers (PTC) is an evidence-based, self-care education program for family caregivers. Originally developed by caregivers of adults with chronic conditions, Powerful Tools for Caregivers has expanded the program to include classes for parents of children with special needs.
Stepping On
Stepping On is for people 60 and older who live independently. Over seven-weeks participants are provided information and skills to reduce falls and increase self-confidence in situations where they are at risk of falling. It covers a range of topics, including falls and fall risk, strength and balance exercises, home hazards, safe footwear, vision and falls, safety in public places, community mobility, coping after a fall, and how to initiate a medication review.
Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance
Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better BalanceĀ® (TJQMBB) is an evidence-based fall prevention program designed for older adults developed by Fuzhong Li, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute. TJQMBB represents a substantive enhancement of traditional Tai Ji Quan as it transforms martial arts movements into a therapeutic regimen aimed at improving postural stability, awareness and mindful control of body positioning functional walking, movement symmetry and coordination, range of motion around the ankle and hip joints and lower – extremity muscle strength.