Helping You Help Yourself – the new COPD self-management programme in South Wales

Hi all,

Working with Big Lottery Wales, we have developed a 7-week education and exercise programme to help you better understand your condition. The programme will improve your health, and give you the tools you need to stay active and manage your condition independently.

The programme is delivered by one of our BLF Programme Coordinators, a health care professional, and a volunteer tutor who has experience of living with COPD.

The programme consists of 7 sessions lasting 2 hours, which is made up of a mixture of education and exercise. During the programme we will cover the following areas:

Understanding COPD and self-management

Managing breathlessness

Being active

Managing flare ups and medications

Looking after yourself

The events are taking place in:

Caerphilly , Swansea, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare

Click here to find out more and to book your place: blf.org.uk/helping-you-help...

Kind regards,

Ben

[Janzo54]

Sounds brilliant!

Wish it was more local.

Well done.

I wish someone would do something similar on Utube?

Janzo

[Hidden in reply to Janzo54]

Watch this space Janzo54 I believe there are plans for some YouTube-based videos to be launched at some point, if I hear approximate dates as to when, I'll let everyone know

[Janzo54 in reply to Hidden]

Oh thats so good!

Yes please let me know!

Janzo

[Ll27bra39]

Sounds good wish we had it in Scotland

[donut43]

this sounds good , could we have it in our area eventually?

Dan

[lKeith]

Ben_BLF

Hi, sounds like a good scheme to me and sounds a bit like an extension of of a rehab scheme.

IKeith