From: Philip Hennessy2 Philip.Hennessy2@hse.ie
Date: 03/01/2025 13:01 (GMT+00:00)
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Subject: HSE Living Well programme: Mid West Q1 & Q2 2025 schedule

Hello all

I would like to advise you on our plans for the Living Well programme across Mid-West, see our schedule to May 2025 and I also include a Living Well programme brochure fyi.

As we typically plan our programmes to demand, if any of these programmes do not suit some of your interested clients from a location viewpoint, please forward me their names, contact details and location and I can add them to the waiting list. If there is sufficient waiting list demand in that area to hold a programme, we will schedule same and contact interested clients.

Let me know if you require further information and thank you for your support.

The Living Well self-management programme is a free of charge, 2.5 hours per week continuing for 6 weeks thus a 15 hour programme with up to 15 participants with chronic health conditions or carers of people with chronic health conditions. The programmes take place on the same day/time each week. In Midwest, the majority of our programmes are done inperson at various locations throughout the region.

The programme is ran in a very friendly and non-intrusive way and addresses topics such as fatigue, sleep, pain, stress, physical activity, healthy eating, difficult emotions, low mood, depression and general wellbeing. The programme is ran by 2 facilitators, one of who must have a chronic condition themselves. Each participant is given a 400 page reference book ‘’Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions’’ which is a bestselling medical book but written in non-medical language.

Living Well is an evidence based, structured Self-management Programme originally developed in Stanford University, California in the 1990’s. The programme has been delivered in Ireland since 2005 and is used worldwide. It has been shown to improve quality of life and mental health and adopts a population health approach.

See the HSE website for more information: https://www.hse.ie/ Type ‘Living Well programme’ in the search option to see detailed information on the programme including access to an informative podcast on HSE YouTube: https://youtu.be/Jd9TXot-PzA