If you have a chronic condition such as diabetes, heart disease or arthritis, you're not alone. Approximately 80% of older adults have at least one chronic disease. Council on Aging offers FREE workshops to help you live your life to its fullest. 

In this chronic pain workshop, participants will learn techniques to deal with frequent symptoms of chronic pain. Topics include:

• Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength and endurance
• Balancing activity with rest
• Tools for overcoming wort-case thinking and negative emotions
• How our minds affect pain and using our minds to lessen pain's grip
• Healthy lifestyle and eating
• Appropriate use of medication
• Working effectively with health care providers and the health care system
• Action-planning, problem-solving, decision making

Visit help4seniors.org to learn more!