Living Well Croydon - Expert Patient Program

Improve your health and take more control
Do you have a long-term health condition? Do you want to boost your health and wellbeing and feel more confident to manage your condition?

Then join our Expert Patients Programme (EPP) – a free course for any adult living with one or more long-term health condition in Croydon. We are looking to particularly support people with hypertension (high blood pressure), COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and diabetes.

The six-week course is designed to boost your health and wellbeing, find solutions to common problems and help you feel more confident to manage your condition.

The course is also available to those caring for someone with a long-term health condition.

Weekly sessions cover a range of topics including:
• Managing symptoms
• Dealing with pain and tiredness
• Coping with feelings of depression and anxiety
• Healthy eating
• Exercise
• Managing stress
• Planning for the future
• Communicating with family, friends and health care professionals
• Finding other health services in the community
The programme complements the care and support you already receive from healthcare
professionals and will make you aware of other services and resources available in your area.
 
Who is this course for?
Any adult living in Croydon who has one or more long-term health condition. A long-term condition is an illness that cannot be cured but can usually be controlled with medicines or other treatments.
Examples of long-term conditions include arthritis, asthma, chronic obtrusive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, epilepsy, heart failure and high blood pressure (hypertension).