Diabetes workshops for people with diabetes and their caregivers.
Diabetes management education classes offered include:
Prediabetes
- learn how to lower your risk for Type 2 Diabetes through healthy eating, exercise and weight management
Taking Charge: Daily Management of Type 2 Diabetes
- learn about type 2 diabetes and what affects your blood sugar
- explore the key strategies you can use to control your blood sugar levels
- recommendation: attend Taking Charge: Daily Management of Type 2 Diabetes before attending Taking Charge: Long Term Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes: Healthy Eating
- learn tips to manage your blood sugars through: meal timing, balanced meals, carbohydrate choices and reading food labels
- recommendation: attend Diabetes: Healthy Eating before attending Diabetes: Meal Planning and Diabetes - Carbohydrate Counting
Taking Charge: Long Term Management of Type 2 Diabetes
- building on the information provided in the Taking Charge: Daily Managment of Type 2 Diabetes class, this class focuses on specific topics of concern and how to plan for them
- learn more about Diabetes medications, travel, sick day management, driving, and potential long tem complications.
- recommendation: attend Taking Charge: Long Term Management of Type 2 Diabetes after attending Taking Charge: Daily Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes: Meal Planning
- using the tools from the class Diabetes: Healthy Eating, learn how to plan meals using Plan, Purchase, Prepare and Pack
- practice meal planning in class
- learn tips to make recipes healthier and how to make better choices when eating out
- recommendation: attend Diabetes: Healthy Eating before attending Diabetes: Meal Planning
Foot Care
- learn how to care for your feet using the INSPECT, PROTECT, PREVENT, and CONSULT method
- learn to identify and deal with foot problems that are associated with Diabetes
Diabetes: Carb Counting
- key skills in know how to count carbohydrates for ideal diabetes management
- recommendation: attend Diabetes: Healthy Eating before attending Diabetes: Carb Counting