Fall News from the Alberta Healthy Living Program
Power Up Your Health!
Each month, we share Alberta Health Service’s Healthy Living Program. They have some fantastic resources and programs to help us age in place.
Fall 2025 Newsletter is now available!
Fall is here! Find tips in this newsletter for establishing healthy habits, living within your energy budget, as well as some information about celiac disease.
Visit their website to learn more about our program and services; or call them at 1-844-527-1160.
Better Choices, Better Health®
Living with a long-term (chronic) health condition can be hard. Better Choices Better Heather® (BCBH) is a six-week workshop that is offered at no charge to Albertan adults living with a chronic (long-term) condition or disease.
Choose between one of two workshops:
- Better Choices, Better Health® – Chronic Disease: for those with conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, arthritis, gastrointestinal (GI), depression, long COVID-19, Multiple Sclerosis, or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME) and others.
- Better Choices, Better Health® – Chronic Pain: for those with conditions like fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome, persistent pain, migraines, arthritis and others.
These workshops can help improve your confidence by learning new self-management skills and to enjoy a better quality of life.
New Classes in Advance Care Planning
If you were suddenly unable to communicate, do your loved ones know what your health wishes are?
All adults over the age of 18 should have a Personal Directive. Our Advance Care Planning class has gone through some changes, and we are now offering two classes on the topic. These classes can be taken in any order.
Your Voice, Your Choice: Health Decisions Matter (available in online and in-person formats)
This class will teach you about:
- General information about advance care planning;
- The role and importance of Personal Directives;
- Goals of Care and what they mean; and
- Resources for advance care planning and where to find them.
Your Voice, Your Choice: Personal Directives Made Easy (in-person only)
This class will teach you about:
- What a Personal Directive is, and why it is important to have one;
- How to write a Personal Directive;
- What to think about when writing your Personal Directive; and
- Available templates to help you get started.
Diabetes Self–Management Workshops
- Diabetes: Healthy Eating
- Diabetes: Meal Planning
- Diabetes: Carbohydrate Counting
- Foot Care
- Taking Charge Long Term
- Pre-Diabetes – Diabetes Prevention
Online or in-person classes at East Edmonton Health Centre (EEHC) | Cromdale Building at 11240-79 street in North East Edmonton
Other Workshops
- Weight Management Workshops
- Minding Stress Workshops
- Boosting Your Brain Health
- Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Webinars
