Do you have Type II Diabetes? Would you be interested in learning how to delay/prevent long term complications? Are you looking for practical ways to improve your diet and lifestyles? Do you need advice on how to deal with the day to day issues?
W&L’s 8-week program
The program involves a one-on-one session with our dietitian to establish goals, collect background history and assess current knowledge. From this initial assessment you will be teamed up with a group of 8 to 12 people with similar circumstances to yourself. Our health professionals will then lead the groups on one session/week (of 60 to 90 minutes duration). Topics covered include:
- Accredited Practicing Dietitian: Practical nutrition advice on menu planning, suitable snacks, weight reduction, portion sizes, label reading, cholesterol lowering, treating hypoglycaemia and a supermarket tour.
- Credentialed Diabetes Educator: Information on understanding and managing diabetes, risk factors, stress management, food nutrients and restrictions, food labelling, alcohol & foot care.
- Accredited Exercise Physiologist: Advice on why exercise, how much exercise, awareness of safety issues, barriers/strategies, exercise variety and practical programming workshops to design your own exercise programs.
Medicare rebates apply.
Diabetes self management education is about providing people with diabetes with the knowledge, skills and motivation to effectively manage their condition. It is about helping people with diabetes to:
- Understand diabetes and make informed lifestyle and treatment choices
- Make appropriate food choices
- Incorporate physical activity into daily life
- Use their mediations effectively
- Monitor their blood glucose and understand and use the results to improve diabetes control
- Prevent and treat high and low blood glucose levels and manage diabetes when sick
- Reduce the risks of diabetes complications
- Manage diabetes along with the demands of work, family and social life.
A W&L credentialed diabetes educator can work with clients to help them understand the risks and benefits of lifestyle choices and treatment options. They work with their clients and other members of our diabetes team to achieve mutually agreed clinical targets, good health and well being.
Wellness & Lifestyles’ (W&L) Reset your Life Program – a healthy lifestyle program to prevent diabetes!
Wellness & Lifestyles Australia (W&L) is an accredited provider of the Lifestyle Modification Program called Reset your Life. Reset your Life aims to teach you how to improve your lifestyle to assist in preventing or delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes. Your doctor has suggested you attend the Reset your Life program because you have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The program has been developed by experts at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Victoria and is accredited to ensure it is of the highest quality. Your doctor is a member of GP partners Adelaide which proudly conducts the Reset your Life program to assist you in preventing type 2 diabetes. The program is subsidised by the Australian Government and you will only need to pay a one off payment of $50 for the program. If you have a health care card or if you have a concession card, you won’t be asked to pay anything.
The program your doctor has referred you into is specifically designed for people between the ages of 40–49 years who are at risk of type 2 diabetes. W&L’s Reset your Life is a group program with no more than 15 people in each session, where you will learn more about:
- pre-diabetes, including the risk factors, how it is diagnosed and treated and how to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes
- healthy eating
- physical activity
- how to make healthy lifestyle choices
- stress management setting goals to improve your health
The W&L Reset your Life program will be run over 6 months and each session duration varies between 1-2 hours in the evening:
- In the first 2 months you will attend four sessions.
- Session 5 will be at 4 months after the start of the program.
- Session 6 will be at 6 months.
The program will be facilitated by skilled and experienced health professionals and held at 2/59 Fullarton Road, Kent Town SA 5067.
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